• Acoustic cloaking device unveiled
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[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/science-environment-13905573[/url]
Why do people reference Harry Potter when talking about invisibility cloaks? There were invisibility cloaks in Fiction before Harry Potter.
[QUOTE=Tuskin;30685868]Why do people reference Harry Potter when talking about invisibility cloaks? There were invisibility cloaks in Fiction before Harry Potter.[/QUOTE] Harry Potter is much more popular and people who read it will actually get the reference instead of them referencing some obscure fiction novel nobody's ever heard of that has invisibility cloaks
"Invisible" submarines aww yeah. I want one.
ITT bad reading [editline]24th June 2011[/editline] Prediction
Now you hear me... ...Now you're dead.
[QUOTE=Tuskin;30685868]Why do people reference Harry Potter when talking about invisibility cloaks? There were invisibility cloaks in Fiction before Harry Potter.[/QUOTE] You're a wizzard staff Sergent potter.
[QUOTE=IdiotStorm;30686064]Harry Potter is much more popular and people who read it will actually get the reference instead of them referencing [B]some obscure fiction novel nobody's ever heard of[/B] that has invisibility cloaks[/QUOTE] That made me feel bad, because I thought of something like that first :frown:
could have sworn that said " Autistic cloaking device."
[QUOTE=Mak123;30689081]could have sworn that said " Autistic cloaking device."[/QUOTE] So all of FP can become invisible then? EDIT: And Minecraft players?
-chu-, you are a genius. [QUOTE=Pacmaney;30689204]So all of FP can become invisible then? EDIT: And Minecraft players?[/QUOTE] Good joke.
"CLOAK ENGAGE" Crysis reference
I learned today that the yanks got the metamaterial idea from the brits, some camoflage man came up with it during world war 2.
[QUOTE=Falchion;30697009]I learned today that the yanks got the metamaterial idea from the brits, some camoflage man came up with it during world war 2.[/QUOTE] Statements like this are pointless without a source.
"The cloaking shell is made of easily-manufactured sheets of plastic with holes through them" That's kind of over-simplifying it a bit BBC.
I am ze Spy! I could imagine that people would use cloaking to escape or skip school... I'd use it :3
Plastic with holes in it, you say? Well I might as well do this in my own backyard!
hehe Dr.Cummer
[QUOTE=Mak123;30689081]could have sworn that said " Autistic cloaking device."[/QUOTE] Just make eye contact, they wont be able to look at you.
[QUOTE=Nerts;30705518]Just make eye contact, they wont be able to look at you.[/QUOTE] Their vision is based off of movement.
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