Thoughts on invisibility

[Lupin_the_3rd]

think it's possible to achieve actual invisibility, or just some way to reflect shit off mirrors or project some crap

ok whatever

[heyhey11]

Probably because there are so many different ideas on how

One of them has to work

[BluE_MeaniE]

There are things "invisible to the naked eye" that we can't see, if they are small enough.
Also, in white light, you can't see all the colors unless you have a prism or some other way to refract light, but they're there.
But if you mean a fairly large object that you can touch and feel, and whatnot, but not see, I don't believe that's possible.

[Feuergeist]

I can turn invisible when nobodys looking.

[Arch0wl]

People always say what they would do if they were invisible or could be invisible.. I would probably just use it to spy on people if I suspected them of something, or just going around messing with people. Have you ever thought about it, what it would be like? You couldn't take anything from any super high security place because they have lasor sensors, and even if you did, it's heavily immoral and the guilt would catch up to you. I think having XRay vision would be by far the most useful and profitable of all the super powers, though I'd rather have eternal life than XRay vision.

[87x]

well.. invisibilty, as Blue meanie described it, will never happen... but i believe that there will be some sort of cloaking device that will make you invisible.. but it wouldnt be like you could see straight through it.. more like if you were to see someone with it on it would be like looking through a curved mirror.. partially skewed and distorted.. for reference look at what the characters on halo look like when using invisibility

[JustJono]

If you're entire body went invisible, you'd be completely blind.

[Lupin_the_3rd]

People always say what they would do if they were invisible or could be invisible.. I would probably just use it to spy on people if I suspected them of something, or just going around messing with people. Have you ever thought about it, what it would be like? You couldn't take anything from any super high security place because they have lasor sensors, and even if you did, it's heavily immoral and the guilt would catch up to you. I think having XRay vision would be by far the most useful and profitable of all the super powers, though I'd rather have eternal life than XRay vision.

but if the lasers went off could they find you? no (if they didn't know invisibility existed)

[insomniakxz]

i don't see how invisibility is possible without any technology. transparent cells?! I agree that an invisible person would distory the image seen through the person, as shown in games [starcraft, starcraft ghost] and movies [predator, that james bond one] like when gas is clear.

[Lupin_the_3rd]

yeah...i'm pretty sure that would be the only form of cloaking technology that we would have within the next few hundred years

then again, look 100 years ago when the first plane was flown...now look at the fighter jets we now possess

[ThunderMage]

If you're entire body went invisible, you'd be completely blind.

Well put. If the dark choroid layer of your eye becomes completely invisible, then your eyes won't be able to trap light so you can't see anything. Other colored pigments in your body are also essential to suvival; if they are bleached, you will die.

The closest thing to invisibility we'll ever achieve is probably a clocking device that manipulates light.

[Laharl]

I assume you've all seen the latest Bond film and saw the cloaking car. Well, that technology is actually on the verge of being completed. I've seen pictures of a guy in a coat, and you can't really see where the coat or anything inside is at. You can still see the person, yeah, but I imagine that in a war-time situation, it'd be hard as hell to.

[ZEROED]

do you have pics or link

[Laharl]

No, and the thread I got it from is ages old, through a few total crashes of said board. I don't think I could find it even if I felt like digging through a year of posts.

[alainbryden]

Laharl, what you're talking about is a little different than cloaking. What it is is a camera that records what is behind the person and projects it to scale on the person so that he blends in to the background, current army technology research, but it's not all that good and definately not conveniant to carry around this camera and projector.

I think the only real possibility, base on our current knowledge of physics, would be to create an entire suit of micro fiber-optics carefully woven that light in the back is transmitted to directly the same location in the front. Even this wouldn't work all that well. That's my input.