then there are all the hazards of your own behaviour, based on years of
experience as a visible entity...there was a X-Files episode where a fellow,
recently become invisible, was killed jaywalking. Even walking downa crowded
street would next to impossible: since no one would make any adjustment to
their path to stay out of your way, you'd be dancing around like Michael
Jackson just to keep from being detected.
Matt
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: iteration zero [mailto:iterationzero@hotmail.com]
> Sent: February 6, 2003 10:34 AM
> To: eggy@eggytoast.com; idm@hyperreal.org
> Subject: RE: [idm] OT: Invisibility.
>
>
> >>> I don't get it, looks more like a optical trick than
> anything else ...
> >>
> >>Well, do you think an invisibility cloak is anything but an optical
> >>trick? I imagine the first "real" invisibility cloak will
> somehow project
> >>all occluded images appropriately rather than make the person
> transparent
> >>(which would probably be lethal).
> >
> >Yeah, they should really just call the things transparency cloaks. but
> >saying "I wish I were transparent" sounds... wrong.
>
> Assuming it's nonlethal, making yourself transparent would pose another
> interesting difficulty - effective blindness for the duration of
> transparency. If all visible light is either passed directly through
> you(transparency) or bent around you (a la "Predator"), no light would be
> reflected or absorbed by the necessary structures in your eye to
> facilitate
> sight. If you can see in the ultraviolet or infrared ends of the
> spectrum,
> that's a different story.
>
> i0
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