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How To See Through an Invisibility Cloak
AMESN writes "Ways to bend light around objects and render them invisible are becoming a major field of scientific study and gaining ground. While no actual invisibility cloak exists yet, researchers are also theorizing on how to beat the perfect cloak."
The kind I want to go out with. WooHoo; particle launcher!
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turn it on?
No invisibility cloak can hide the fact that it's still a solid object. That or utilize various frequencies of EM as it would be extremely difficult to defeat radar + infared + visible + UV all at the same time.
Sigs are too short to say anything truly profound so read the above post instead.
If you can, it's not perfect.
The real problem isn't detecting it. It's knowing that you need to be trying to detect it in the first place, and approximately when and in what area.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
You can drink a blessed potion of see invisible or eat an invisible stalker's corpse while invisible.
> In any case, a well placed pebble should also work as it would bounce off in
> a very obvious way.
Better yet, a well-placed bullet. Just spray bullets in all directions at all times.
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Everyone knows firing short, repeated bursts of tachyons between a 3 dimensional grid made up of Federation star ships is the most effective way to detect invisible, cloaked objects.
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