News in the UFO discussion

Dark matter is interesting stuff. There's so much that we don't understand yet, but our rate of discovery is really pretty awesome when you consider our limited tools. I will be very interested to see what science comes up with in my lifetime.

Chris
 
Recently scientists transported a group of molecules several yards too. Before that it was only one molecule and they only moved it a few mm. Sweet!
 
The difficult we do at once
The impossible takes a bit longer

we might yet have that ftl drive before i pass over the bridge.
 
I'll just be happy when we get cheap cable tv and decent internet connection here.
 
Don't have time now to look it up, but I can corroborate Andy's statement. Scientists did indeed transport some matter. I don't begin to understand the process (lack of research--college keeps me too busy), but it was done. Beam me up!

Speaking of Star Trek technology, some other scientists about a month ago demonstrated the beginnings of cloaking technology. It was a carefully engraved copper cylinder that somehow acted to bend or deflect the light around itself seamlessly. Actually, not light--I think it was infrared or something else like that--but that's an awesome first step!

Chris
 
namaarie said:
Speaking of Star Trek technology, some other scientists about a month ago demonstrated the beginnings of cloaking technology. It was a carefully engraved copper cylinder that somehow acted to bend or deflect the light around itself seamlessly. Actually, not light--I think it was infrared or something else like that--but that's an awesome first step!
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Several organizations are fairly deep into electrochromatic materials, the idea being that if you can change color by changing voltage and the individual cells are small enough, you can look like pretty much anything, or nothing at all, or something else; projecting a pattern to make an aircraft's wings less obvious, for instance, leaves you looking at something that no longer looks like an aircraft. The obvious use of such a technology is to confuse humans (much the same way camouflage does) but what's less apparent is that the next generation of guided weapons will most likely rely heavily on image recognition rather than thermal or radar guidance, both of which can already be tampered with quite easily. A method of spoofing this will likely be important.

The common denominator seems to be a desire (and increasing capability) to play with light. Neat stuff.

Were you to post a link to what you mentioned, at least a few of us would probably like to take a look at it.
 
With the exception of Scotty(And the awesome Ensign Rand), anybody who wore red was destined to have their salt removed from their bodies, be strafed by a Japanese Zero, or end up as some kind of main course for intergalactic monsters.
 
The_Shadow said:
Andy, where did you hear that one about the molecules?
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I read it on CNN maybe a month ago.

Josh, The've already got invisibility technology. Its more like chamelion though, not really invisibility.
 
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