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Stealth Paint From German Inventor Werner Nickel
Gerhardius writes "Werner Nickel sounds like a Disney-style wacky inventor. He moved to the UAE to develop his previous invention: he had bred a worm whose excrement made it possible to grow radishes in the dry desert sand. That project failed so he moved on to the next item on his agenda, naturally a radar absorbing paint. While it certainly is not unique, there is some interesting history behind the development, and a proposed civilian use."
But can that excrement allow humans to see the future and travel faster than light?
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
Except that commercial airports use transponders, not radar, to locate planes.
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
So, paint the transponder.
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All that stressful military/terrorist stuff aside, that paint might just be good for silencing cell phones in movie theatres. It's generally illegal to jam any sort of licensed transmission, but creating an environment that weakens the signal is a good workaround.
Perhaps adding a layer of the paint to some consumer products, like PCs, might be a viable way of reducing the R.F. noise (and security issues that go with it?) leaking out.