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Cloak of Invisibility Coming Soon
davaguco writes "It seems that we will finally be able to make ourselves invisible" It seems like this story resurfaces every few months and then gets submitted a zillion times so here it is. Personally I'm still waiting for my cloak of evasion. 20% miss chance is awesome.
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I drank what? -- Socrates
I really find it hard to believe that the "Nothing for you to see here. Please move along." i just saw is accidental, some meta-humour by Taco perhaps?
I'll believe it when I see it.
/dev/random
Actually, according to D&D 3.5 rules, if you are invisible (as with improved invisibility), but are detected (ie enemies know where you are due to listen checks and/or maybe you just cast a spell, etc) you get a concealment bonus of 50%, which is better than that 20% evasion that you are talking about. So given a cloak of evasion or a cloak of invisibility, I would much rather have the invisibility, thank you very much. Even with regular invisibility I think it's a 25% concealment bonus -- still better than 20%.
Slashdotters already have the power of invisibility. They can snipe other users with impunity via the Anonymous Coward feature. ;)
The Christian Right is Neither (Christian nor right). See: Matthew 23, Matthew 25, Ezekiel 16:48-50
You pick up a tattered cape (K unpaid). Only $250 for you.
You put on the tattered cape.
Suddenly, you can see through yourself.
The nurse hits.
You can not remove the cloak, it seems to be cursed.
The nurse hits.
The floor is too hard to dig here.
Really attack Wengretik the shopkeeper?
Wengretik strikes at thin air.
The nurse hits.
Wengretik hits. Wengretik hits.
You die.
Do you realize how wrong that sounds?
Didn't Jack Bauer already employ the "hoodie of invisibility" a couple of weeks (hours?) ago when sneaking onto the airplane?
These people have looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined.
I must not be a big enough nerd. I thought the cloak of evasion was something that helped you pay less taxes.
Keep it away from future Dick Cheney hunting parties. He already shoots at people he can see, imagine the damage something like this could cause.
I assume it sounds wrong because he's talking about eating a mathematical constant right? ;D
most slashdotters can make themselves invisible simply by entering a room
(you're nodding your head right now, aren't you?)
I, for one, welcome our... Hey! Where did they go?
MMPPI = Megnetic Multiplexing Photon Phase Inversion.
:P
Ya, I made it up. Sounds cool though, so it must work.
Life is not for the lazy.
From the article:
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The cloaking device relies on recently discovered materials used to make superlenses that make light behave in a highly unusual way. Instead of having a positive refractive index - the property which makes light bend as it passes through a prism or water - the materials have a negative refractive index, which effectively makes light travel backwards.
Trust scientists to come up with a complicated term for "mirror"
Can you seen me now? .... no? good.
Can you see me now? .... no? Good.
Can you see me now? .... no? Good.
At least to women anyway, I smile and say hello and they don't seem to see me. Go figure. :-P
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Cloak of Stupidity Already Here!