Comment Re:Credit Agencies (Score 1) 225
Here's how it is folks: take care of yourself and your family first, even if your credit score takes a hit. You can't eat your credit score.
Unlike your family, which is DEEE-LICIOUS.
Here's how it is folks: take care of yourself and your family first, even if your credit score takes a hit. You can't eat your credit score.
Unlike your family, which is DEEE-LICIOUS.
Yes, this is really quite pathetic. On several occasions now I have wanted some information on a particular topic (e.g. a shitty old game I picked up, my mobile phone, or even a description of lemon party). I go to the wikipedia page, I can tell that several people went to the effort of writing an entry on that topic but the page was deleted by someone who decided that no-one would ever want to see that information. This is arrogance in the extreme - destroying some people's work because they incorrectly assumed that no-one would ever want to see it. Was the article getting in the way before it was deleted?!
Surely Wikipedia could have a link to view pages that were 'deleted' for non-notability - what would be so bad about that?
Actually it doesn't, which is the really cool thing about these cloaks. The cloaks are made of a metamaterial for which the refractive index is less than 1, so light travels faster than c in that medium. That's what makes them tricky (but not impossible) to build! The reduced refractive index with respect to the surrounds exactly makes up for the extra distance travelled. It's neat stuff.
How would it show movement? AFAIK the cloak should be able to move around and this movement shouldn't be visible to you.
Or do you mean they won't be able to make a flexible cloaking ninja suit that keeps cloaking the ninja as they walk, despite the suit bending? The solution to that, of course, is to roll around inside a giant hamster ball/zorb cloaking device! Watch out... i'll sneak up on you and ROLL YOU TO DEATH.
Yep, and even if you got a broadband cloak that worked at all those frequencies, you could still pick it up by a number of ways not mentioned in TFA. You could pick it up with sonar (I guess in principle it could also be an acoustic cloak to beat that too), but you could also change the refractive index of the room. The cloak is designed so that no matter what's in the cloaked region, it appears to have a refractive index of 1 (or whatever the cloak's surrounds are supposed to be). If you change the refractive index of the surrounds slightly (change temperature, spray an aerosol, fill the room with water (!)) then the cloak should be relatively easy to spot.
The other downside of these cloaks, of course, is that you can't see out of them since no light interacts with your eyes.
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