Non Gun Stuff...

[Teresa Heilevang]

A  Tennessee Farm

Read the caption to understand how he did it

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Most days...

[m25operator]

Marshall'ette, you come up with neatest stuff, thanks!!!!

[rojawe]

Thanks for posting I bought a new 5 X 9 trailer and had it two years and it blew a tire so when I called the tire maker they hadn't made the tire for a couple years. The Tire was 8 years old when I bought the new trailer so it made it 10 when it blew. I was offered 25 bucks a tire from the trailer maker and I made them replace both tires and they were 2 years old. 

[Teresa Heilevang]

This is scary, but interesting, think of the possibilities.

Scientists closer to developing invisibility cloak

 
 
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists say they are a step closer to developing materials that could render people and objects invisible.

Researchers have demonstrated for the first time they were able to cloak three-dimensional objects using artificially engineered materials that redirect light around the objects. Previously, they only have been able to cloak very thin two-dimensional objects.

The findings, by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, led by Xiang Zhang, are to be released later this week in the journals Nature and Science.

The new work moves scientists a step closer to hiding people and objects from visible light, which could have broad applications, including military ones.

People can see objects because they scatter the light that strikes them, reflecting some of it back to the eye. Cloaking uses materials, known as metamaterials, to deflect radar, light or other waves around an object, like water flowing around a smooth rock in a stream.

Metamaterials are mixtures of metal and circuit board materials such as ceramic, Teflon or fiber composite. They are designed to bend visible light in a way that ordinary materials don't. Scientists are trying to use them to bend light around objects so they don't create reflections or shadows.

It differs from stealth technology, which does not make an aircraft invisible but reduces the cross-section available to radar, making it hard to track.

The research was funded in part by the U.S. Army Research Office and the National Science Foundation's Nano-Scale Science and Engineering Center.


Rumors have existed that in 1943 the U.S. Navy made the USS Eldridge, a destroyer or destroyer escort, disappear in what was called the Philadelphia Experiment as part of a Project Rainbow.

Electrical cables wrapped around the ship, degaussing, etc., were involved as was a unified field theory supposedly developed by Einstein.

The Navy denies it ever happened but UFO buffs claim it did and say there were witnesses.
Also, as the story goes once the USS Eldridge was rendered invisible the ship and crew were "teleported"  from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Norfolk, Virginia. Supposedly, the crew of the civilian merchant ship SS Andrew Furuseth observed the arrival where they witnessed the ghastly sight of sailors that were embedded in the deck and sides of the ship.

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[tombogan03884]

I read that as well, They placed pulsating electro magnets in the ship in an effort to defeat German magnetic mines and torpedo's, when they turned them on at dockside all that was visible was a hull shaped depression in the water.
During the 70's the ship was on loan to the Greek Navy as the Deleon, and there was a 6 ton discrepancy in build weight, according to Janes Warships and the German Weyers Warships. The 6 tons would have been the weight of the electro magnets, as guns etc, remained the same. Also there were discrepancies in dates that the ship entered service, There is an anti submarine after action report filed by the Capt. dated about 6 months before she was supposedly launched.
My Uncle was in the Navy during WWII and clearly remembered a newspaper story about a crew member walking through the wall of a Norfolk bar and never being seen again. Supposedly all the surviving crew had to be institutionalized because of what they had seen and experienced.

[Teresa Heilevang]

Want to build a deer stand?

 http://home.windstream.net/tomf42344/

 

[PegLeg45]

This is scary, but interesting, think of the possibilities.

Scientists closer to developing invisibility cloak

 
 
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists say they are a step closer to developing materials that could render people and objects invisible.

Researchers have demonstrated for the first time they were able to cloak three-dimensional objects using artificially engineered materials that redirect light around the objects. Previously, they only have been able to cloak very thin two-dimensional objects.

The findings, by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, led by Xiang Zhang, are to be released later this week in the journals Nature and Science.

The new work moves scientists a step closer to hiding people and objects from visible light, which could have broad applications, including military ones.

People can see objects because they scatter the light that strikes them, reflecting some of it back to the eye. Cloaking uses materials, known as metamaterials, to deflect radar, light or other waves around an object, like water flowing around a smooth rock in a stream.

Metamaterials are mixtures of metal and circuit board materials such as ceramic, Teflon or fiber composite. They are designed to bend visible light in a way that ordinary materials don't. Scientists are trying to use them to bend light around objects so they don't create reflections or shadows.

It differs from stealth technology, which does not make an aircraft invisible but reduces the cross-section available to radar, making it hard to track.

The research was funded in part by the U.S. Army Research Office and the National Science Foundation's Nano-Scale Science and Engineering Center.


Rumors have existed that in 1943 the U.S. Navy made the USS Eldridge, a destroyer or destroyer escort, disappear in what was called the Philadelphia Experiment as part of a Project Rainbow.

Electrical cables wrapped around the ship, degaussing, etc., were involved as was a unified field theory supposedly developed by Einstein.

The Navy denies it ever happened but UFO buffs claim it did and say there were witnesses.
Also, as the story goes once the USS Eldridge was rendered invisible the ship and crew were "teleported"  from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Norfolk, Virginia. Supposedly, the crew of the civilian merchant ship SS Andrew Furuseth observed the arrival where they witnessed the ghastly sight of sailors that were embedded in the deck and sides of the ship.

You ain't gonna believe this, but my former boss's son (a metalurgical engineer from Georgia Tech, doing his post doctoral studies at the RIT in Stockholm, Sweden) has been working on this same type of project (may even be in conjunction with this one?).
Neat stuff..

http://www.physorg.com/news108229131.html

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/81721.php
Pillar of Invisibility
Zhichao Ruan, Min Yan, Curtis W. Neff (my ex-boss's son), and Min Qiu
Physical Review Letters (forthcoming)

While we are a long way off from the lightweight, high-performance, magical cloak of Harry Potter, Muggle physicists have been busy designing ways to make invisibility possible. A recent theoretical analysis of a column-shaped invisibility cloak, by a collaboration of researchers from Sweden and China, showed that a cloak made to ideal specifications could render an object (or wizard) hidden inside perfectly invisible. However, even slight deviations from these specifications will cause the invisibility to break down.

The researchers analyzed the properties of a simulated tube of special metamaterials (manmade materials with intricate, microscopic structures) that can force light to follow a specified path. With the ideal wall thickness, the tube would flawlessly guide light around the inner chamber, rendering the wizard inside invisible. You could walk about, unaware of the cloaked wizard's presence, unless you unceremoniously slam yourself into a pillar that looks like nothing but empty air.

The wizard, who would be unable to see anything outside of the invisibility cloak, could reveal himself by deconstructing the cloak a layer at a time. Imagine if he could wave his wand and remove a layer from the inside of the column, leaving it the same diameter on the outside but making that inner chamber a little larger. With the inner layer removed, the wizard would appear as a thin line, and the background would be slightly distorted. As more of the inside is removed, the wizard would become more apparent and the background would become more distorted. Physicists haven't yet worked out exactly how these distortions would appear to human eyes.

In any case, the collaboration's theoretical study affirms that the ideal column design will allow for perfect invisibility, if metamaterials can be made to the right specifications.. -KM

[Teresa Heilevang]

I love this kind of stuff... 
being invisible .........time travel........astral projection... I could go on and on and on....

[ellis4538]

Marshalette, I have been invisible for years...especially when my wife is mad at me...looks at me as if I wasn't there!

Richard