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Cloak of Invisibility Coming Soon

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i've-heard-that-before dept.

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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  1. Star Trek linked to pedophilia? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    This has very little to do with the article, but the L.A. Times recently published an article regarding the Toronto Sex Crimes Unit that focused on their fight against child pornography ("Sifting Clues to an Unsmiling Girl"). They are the law enforcement organization that photoshopped the victims out of child porn photos in order to get the public's assistance in identifying the backgrounds (it worked). In any case, the article had this amazing claim:
    On one wall is a "Star Trek" poster with investigators' faces substituted for the Starship Enterprise crew. But even that alludes to a dark fact of their work: All but one of the offenders they have arrested in the last four years was a hard-core Trekkie.
    Wow. All but one in four years. Seemed rather unlikely to me.

    So, I called the Child Exploitation Section of the Toronto Sex Crimes Unit and spoke to Det. Ian Lamond, who was familiar with the Times article. He claims they were misquoted, or if that figure was given it was done so jokingly. Of course, even if the figure was given jokingly, shouldn't the Times reporter have clarified something that seems rather odd? Shouldn't her editors have questioned her sources?

    Nevertheless, Det. Lamond does confirm that a majority of those arrested show "at least a passing interest in Star Trek, if not a strong interest." They've arrested well over one hundred people over the past four years and they can gauge this interest in Star Trek by the arrestees' "paraphenalia, books, videotapes and DVDs."
    Det. Constable Warren Bulmer slips on a Klingon sash and shield they confiscated in a recent raid. "It has something to do with a fantasy world where mutants and monsters have power and where the usual rules don't apply," Bulmer reflects. "But beyond that, I can't really explain it."
    I asked Det. Lamond if this wasn't simply a general interest in science fiction and fantasy, such as Star Wars or Harry Potter or similar. Paraphrasing his answer, he said, while there was sometimes other science fiction and fantasy paraphenalia, Star Trek was the most consistent and when he referred to a majority of the arrestees being Star Trek fans, it was Star Trek-specific.
  2. Re:Wouldn't it be easier... by tomhudson · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yep, and it was used to great effectiveness by Stephen Colbert at the White House Press Association Dinner.

    the way the mainstream media covered his speech, you would think he wasn't even there.

    http://thankyoustephencolbert.org/

  3. Re:Wouldn't it be easier... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Look dude, no one really cares. Quit being a FAG!!! and go do your astronaut, cowboy, super secret agent shit.

    ...Some people.

  4. Re:Pictures by sgt_doom · · Score: 0, Troll
    DARN IT!!

    How many times to I have to tell you guys, the invisibility formula has already been successfully created????

    Your fearless leader/president/decider/frat boy, George W. Bush, used it when he was stationed in the Texas Air National Guard in Alabama - and again in several other places while in the Texas ANG!

    That is exactly why no one ever saw him at those places.....

    [In a democracy, the people are the deciders.]