This is no joke...the Army says that by 2012 they will have combat tanks that are completely invisible. In reality they already have done it, but the system is not reliable enough for actual battle at this point. Last week there were some "secret" trials (I don't know how secret since I have heard this from a couple sources) at which an unidentified soldier was quoted as "This technology is incredible. If I hadn't been present I wouldn't have believed it. I looked across the fields and just saw grass and trees - but in reality I was staring down the barrel of a tank gun." I've heard that the technology works by actually bending light away from the tank surface and then projecting images from behind the tank taken with cameras...well done Britain.
They only thing I'm not a fan of is that each article online that I've looked up about this makes their own photoshoped attempt at what it looks like with half the tank invisible...why make up the news?
But seriously invisible tanks are awesome...
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Huh. Do they come with invisible bullets?
At first I thought you were talking about the water tank...
Yea I remember some guy came into one of my MDE classes at UofM and started talking about negative refraction as a means to manipulate the light that hits an object....
I think he also said something about magic
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