WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have created two new types of materials that can bend light the wrong way, creating the first step toward an invisibility cloaking device.

 

One approach uses a type of fishnet of metal layers to reverse the direction of light, while another uses tiny silver wires, both at the nanoscale level.

 

Both are so-called metamaterials -- artificially engineered structures that have properties not seen in nature, such as negative refractive index.

 

The two teams were working separately under the direction of Xiang Zhang of the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center at the University of California, Berkeley with U.S. government funding. One team reported its findings in the journal Science and the other in the journal Nature.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080810/sc_nm/cloaking_dc

All right! Now the Federation can finally close the gap between those blasted Romulans!

I was thinking Dutch and Dillon could close the gap against the Predator.

All right! Now the Federation can finally close the gap between those blasted Romulans!

 

I wondered how long it would take before we would get a great response on this topic. :lol:

 

I'm sure everyone can have some fun with this idea. :thumb:

 

***Two great responses in just 3 minutes, WOW!

Isn't there something else that had been in production for quite a while in the Army for tanks/vehicles, or am I imagining things?

I was thinking Dutch and Dillon could close the gap against the Predator.

 

:lol::thumb:

All right! Now the Federation can finally close the gap between those blasted Romulans!

 

 

But the problem is that it violates the treaty, just like crossing into the neutral zone.

I was thinking Dutch and Dillon could close the gap against the Predator.

 

 

:lol:

 

I can see it when the day finally comes.

 

Scientist #1 - Where did you put it?

 

Scientist #2 - Right here

 

Scientist #1 - Well I can't find it!

 

Scientist #2 - Are you sitting on it???

But the problem is that it violates the treaty, just like crossing into the neutral zone.

 

Doh! Can't believe I forgot that! :lol:

Sweet!

Here is a picture of it:

 

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But the problem is that it violates the treaty, just like crossing into the neutral zone.

You got that from the official Star Fleet manual...didn't you?

Is this like one of those ads in the back of comic books with the X-ray glasses that every teenage boy wanted to buy back in the day????

Is this like one of those ads in the back of comic books with the X-ray glasses that every teenage boy wanted to buy back in the day????

Man, I DID always want some of those! :irked:

Man, I DID always want some of those! :irked:

 

What teenage comic book reader, didn't????