[geeks] engage your cloaking devices!

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Fri, 20 Oct 2006 @ 11:18 -0400, Phil Stracchino said:

> I frankly severely question whether there will *ever* be a practical use
> for a "cloaking" technology that can only hide an object from one
> frequency in the EM spectrum at a time, and which requires placing the
> object to be hidden inside the cloaking device, while the cloaking
> device itself *remains perfectly visible*.

Lot's of people have question things like this before they became
useful.

For example, there might be uses besides the idea of cloaking something
from being found.

> There are, I'm certain, useful applications of metamaterials.  This
> isn't one of them.  It's a laboratory parlor-trick, and nothing more.

So were transisters in 1949. A big unusable clump of metal, basically a
laboratory demo of a property of matter.

Now I have several hundred million of them busy at my feet.

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