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Harry
Member # 265
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http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_747591.html?menu=news.latestheadlines
Not quite convincing yet. But it looks cool
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E. Cartman
Member # 256
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Ohh... flexible electrochromatic panels... *drool*
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Da_bang80
Member # 528
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They've been talking about things like this for a couple years now. I believe one example was a military camouflage unit that had thousands of tiney receptors that captured light from one side of the body, and displayed the image on the other side. I don't know whether anything came about from that idea. But it'd be a cool idea.
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PsyLiam
Member # 73
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And then James Bond drove it and went voom and STUFF BLEW UP LIKE IN THE WAR AGAINST TERRAH!
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Kosh
Member # 167
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quote:
The photograph was taken through a viewfinder that uses a combination of moving images taken behind the wearer to give a transparent effect.
Looks like it was the camera, and not the jacket.
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Wraith
Member # 779
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I'm sorry, but is that a man or a woman wearing it?
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Guardian 2000
Member # 743
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quote: Originally posted by Kosh: quote:
The photograph was taken through a viewfinder that uses a combination of moving images taken behind the wearer to give a transparent effect.
Looks like it was the camera, and not the jacket.
Indeed. The coat is using a "retroreflective material" with the image projected onto it. This material basically sounds like a movie screen with extra technobabble.
The concept is like piping a camcorder image from behind a flatscreen TV onto the TV, and claiming the TV is thus invisible.
Alas, no "Insurrection" suits yet.
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CaptainMike
Member # 709
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quote: Originally posted by Wraith: I'm sorry, but is that a man or a woman wearing it?
CANT TELL! THEYRE CLOAKED!
BTW, that does look a lot like the cloak suits they wore in insurrection. score another one for trek.
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Reverend
Member # 335
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Looks more like the Therm-optic camouflage from "Ghost in the Shell" to me.
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E. Cartman
Member # 256
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It's all derived from Project Yehudi in some form or another, which begs the question how far along the military is in R&D of exotic camouflage techniques.
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TSN
Member # 31
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My understanding is that it's most like the blue/green screen technology used in film. I don't think it's at all designed for use as camouflage. It's made so that people who want to see "through" it, can.
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Vogon Poet
Member # 393
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Which brings us back to whether the person in the see-through clothes is male or female. 8)
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AndrewR
Member # 44
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I saw Nemesis on Thursday night (It opened here on Thursday) and well, I haven't posted anything cause I'm still mulling it over. There is so much I want to say, but at the same time, so little.
Was anyone disturbed by the 'can cloak while firing weapons' aspect of the Reman "Scimitar"?
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The Mighty Monkey of Mim
Member # 646
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Not really. That's always just been an issue of power distrubution. Obviously, the Scimitar simply has some major badass power-generating capability.
-MMoM
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Nim
Member # 205
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I used to hear that the cloaking field couldn't be allowed to be penetrated by weapons or it would disrupt, possibly overload the device.
What was the explanation for the TUC-BoP?
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The Mighty Monkey of Mim
Member # 646
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Nope. I've never heard this mentioned in any canonical source. The reason for cloaked ships being unable to fire weapons has always been simply that a cloaking device draws so much of the ship's power that there isn't enough to operate the weapons systems. (And, variously, other functions like shields and transporters, although this hasn't been highly consistent throughout the series and films.)
-MMoM
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TSN
Member # 31
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Hey, Andrew, ever heard of something called "spoiler warnings"?
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Topher
Member # 71
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Well, he's from Australia where IIRC Nemesis came out last, so I think everyone's had a chance to see it now...
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AndrewR
Member # 44
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I am sorry about any spoilers - it's just that yeah, I'm in Australia and I thought everyone else on here would have been in a country that has already seen it.
Unless there is someone here from like Pitcairn Islands or Upper Volta.
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AndrewR
Member # 44
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Presumably the Scimitar has overcome the problem with the 'give away' of the massive amounts of energy that was being expended which allowed detection by a simple gas - sensor. (In TUC).
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TSN
Member # 31
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Actually, according to the IMDb, quite a few countries haven't hit their release dates yet. However, my comment was more for the purpose of mocking, given the fact that you've often been one of the first people to go off the deep end if someone so much as mentions the title of an episode w/o spoiler warnings.
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Harry
Member # 265
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Nemesis comes out next week around here.
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Nim
Member # 205
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Sweden won't get it until March.
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