See These Nanotubes and Nanorockets Create an ‘Invisibility Cloak’
- Posted on October 8, 2011 at 12:49pm by
Liz Klimas
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What do you get when you take super-heated carbon nanontubes? A mirage that can act as an invisibility cloak.
Watch the technology created by researchers at the University of Dallas:
According to Wired (via Business Insider) the nanotubes are one molecule thick with the density of air but the strength of steel. For more on cloaking technology, check out this armored vehicle that researchers made “disappear.”
Research is also being conducted to someday use nanotechnology as a vessel to whizz medication quickly through the body. New Scientist reports scientists at the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research in Dresden, Germany, have developed nanorocket with less toxic fuel, compared to hydrazine, that could someday be used in medical settings.
Watch the rockets “fly”:
The scientists created this less toxic fuel through a reaction with platinum and a weak solution of hydrogen peroxide. The nanorocket traveled 200 times its own length per second, but because even small amounts of peroxide aren’t entirely safe for the body, scientists are still working on a better fuel. Scientists are able to control direction of the rocket using a magnetic field.
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autigers2010champs
Posted on October 19, 2011 at 10:41amCan it be used on Obama?
Report Post »clawless
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 5:38pmHere is something you need to look up. It’s project Camelot in 1947. If you find anything it will blow your mind.
Report Post »GENEPAGLIARI
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 9:15amCan we apply some of this technology to a Predator or three and try it out on D.C.?
rich007
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 10:55pmIf its coming out in public, chances are we already have it, and have had it 5 to 10 years. Things beyond that are not made public.
Report Post »Av8r1969
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 10:40amFact
Report Post »daisy715
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 4:13pmabout this time last year i was driving down a street not too far from my house and i notice a strange looking white plane with no windows. it was descending lower and lower until it was just a bit above the trees. i thought i was about to witness a plane crash, then all of a sudden it just disappeared. when i got home i began googleing to see if i could find anything out about this plane. all i was able to find was a pic. the pic was labled military camoflouge plane. i was just wondering if anyone else has seen this.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 1:30pmRemember the “Philidelphia Experiment”? Einstein looking for Invisiblity for the Military from Radar… did not end, did it? It’s all about Waves and Spectrums.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 6:58amI think it was Dr. Nikola Tesla not Einstein but I could be wrong
Report Post »Cymry
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 8:49amthere is a complexity to God’s creation that we are only now just beginning to understand. it reminds me of a passage in the bible referring to a rapid increase in technology before Jesus’ returns.
Report Post »PFN
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 8:27amIt might have been invented in America, but unless we clean out DC it will be made in China!
Report Post »JDAJR
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 2:49pmor used against us
Report Post »onceAjedii
Posted on October 8, 2011 at 11:37pmMilitarys already applied it, we’ve had it for 20 yrs at least!
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 12:47amso THAT‘s what i don’t see flying over sometimes…
Report Post »asybot12
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 10:54pm@JB.KIDS no it‘s not I didn’t see it first
Report Post »Wilkins
Posted on October 8, 2011 at 11:08pmEventually we’ll reach the same conclusion as every other advanced civilization in the universe, that it’s just too difficult to make things invisible. Much simpler to generate an SEP field (Somebody Else’s Problem field). Everyone will see the tank driving down Elm Street, but it won’t register in the conscience, because it‘s somebody else’s problem. Concept from Douglas Adams.
Report Post »jaxy
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 7:35amNo other civilization could see individual atoms and understand their effects and interactions like we do. Until this century there wasn’t even agreement about whether atoms existed. Invisibility has already been achieved 2 or 3 different ways, it’s just a matter of scaling it up.
Report Post »asybot12
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 10:56pmthat‘s in the same chapter as OPM or OPFU’S
Report Post »clinker
Posted on October 8, 2011 at 8:29pmGadzooks…..somke and mirrors will never be the same!
Report Post »sundance_sp
Posted on October 8, 2011 at 6:39pmI am constantly amazed by the technology we produce. No doubt we are the worlds leader in new and innovative technologies. But, why do we need to show everything? Or do we? You know China, Russia and the rest of the bunch that wants to take us down are trying to duplicate these things, and probably are. Look at China’s new stealth fighter for example,, their space program,, etc.. it all came from stolen technology,,, from us! I don’t know, but it seems our military and government is smoking something.. I just don’t get it!
Report Post »Al J Zira
Posted on October 8, 2011 at 6:52pmWe didn’t do this, it was done in Germany.
Report Post »davuf
Posted on October 8, 2011 at 5:56pmThis looks pretty cool. Although it would probably be 20 years before they actually make something useful with this tech.
Report Post »Consensual_Tax
Posted on October 8, 2011 at 5:03pmPerhaps some applications for NanoSafety.
Report Post »sbenard
Posted on October 8, 2011 at 5:02pmAre those scientists Romulans?
Report Post »tharpdevenport
Posted on October 8, 2011 at 4:34pmCan we put one of these over Pelosi’s head?
Report Post »ZengaPA65
Posted on October 8, 2011 at 7:21pmlol good one
Report Post »bankerpapaw
Posted on October 8, 2011 at 8:19pmI like your idea, but let’s put one over Congress and the White House.
Report Post »ThankBabyJesus
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 12:39amrofl
Report Post »tharpdevenport
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 3:11amBANKERPAPAW,
Good idea — then we’ll finally have some REAL transparency at the White House.
Report Post »its_time_to_arrest_our_government
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 10:37pmits called a paper bag
Report Post »nocomment
Posted on October 8, 2011 at 4:18pmWill it work on my wife?
Report Post »Harold B
Posted on October 8, 2011 at 3:33pmgood techknowledgy but why is it hiding and not shooting? Afraid to hurt the sensitivies of the Jihad murderers ? Any weapon system unless it is used is worthless.
Report Post »YepImaConservative
Posted on October 8, 2011 at 3:07pmI’m get a feeling all the Trekkies out there are getting collective woodies in the realization that we might actually get this technology before the Klingons do… in the future…
Report Post »jonathan james
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 8:48amRomulans had the cloaking device not Klingons.
Report Post »Fight4Freedom1776
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 9:46pmKlingons and Romulans BOTH had cloaking capabilities.
Report Post »RedManBlueState
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 12:33pm@Fight4Freedom1776
I hate to get geekish with you guys…
But I believe the Klingons got their cloaking technology from the Romulans.
Report Post »thegodfather
Posted on October 8, 2011 at 2:49pmObama has already inquired about this technology to make the deficit disappear.
Report Post »YoungConservativesRule
Posted on October 8, 2011 at 3:16pmHaha Good one.
Report Post »Slayer
Posted on October 8, 2011 at 2:21pmBroker0101, like hanging here with the people who need to ‘get a life’? Who is worse, all of us know-it-alls who ‘need to get a life or you for hanging out with us? Welcome, fellow loser and embarrassment!
Report Post »olddog
Posted on October 8, 2011 at 1:44pmEventually this concept will be used to repair the human body. Or maybe space travel..
Report Post »As long as we can dream.
Eliasim
Posted on October 8, 2011 at 1:57pmI choose the amazing aspect of the eternal soul over any technology advances.
Report Post »hidden_lion
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 12:38pmAS the technology goes haywire and eats your body from the inside….Keep those nano things away from my cells, thank you very much.
Report Post »Secessionista
Posted on October 8, 2011 at 1:00pmYawn – this is not a cloaking device – it is a mirage. Anyone can make one of those with… a mirror.
Report Post »westernmass
Posted on October 8, 2011 at 1:33pmActually, by definition this is a cloaking device, just not in the way most of us perceive the concept of “invisibility” (As some sort of state of permanence). The trouble is finding ways to stabilize and control the illusion, which is all that invisibility (or “mirages” as you say) is. There are already technologies out there being pursued by the military to create “stealth suits” using paralleling, but not entirely similar ideas.
Using light-absorption and refraction techniques the military is making huge strides towards creating the ultimate concealment for soldiers and vehicles alike.
No matter your definitions, though, this is awesome :)
Report Post »Cesium
Posted on October 8, 2011 at 1:36pmwhy can’t you use a mirage as a cloaking device?
Report Post »broker0101
Posted on October 8, 2011 at 1:45pmThe Blaze: Home of know-it-all’s who know nothing about anything. You people are embarrassments. Get a life.
Eliasim
Posted on October 8, 2011 at 1:56pmIt’s not as if they invented the idea, because there is mirages in nature. Even heat-waves create mirages by showing something not there and hiding things which are there.
Report Post »YoungConservativesRule
Posted on October 8, 2011 at 3:19pm@ Broker
… and then you found five dollars, Nice story tell it again.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on October 8, 2011 at 5:54pmbroker101 = TROLL BAITING
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 8, 2011 at 12:59pmNow I have to admit that is interesting. Think of the scene when a neighbour gets this “Invisible cloak” for their house for some inane reason and the owner stands there “Was the door here or over there…”
Report Post »Glenn in Virginia
Posted on October 8, 2011 at 1:58pmThe Secret Police could have a lot of success with that, as could peeping toms, school exam cheats, and jealous spouses/lovers.
Report Post »eaglenva
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 12:18amGood one. And for us elderly we thought is was our minds we lost first :-)
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