Carbon nanotube 'space camouflage' coating invented (cloaked ufos ?)

Taken from the BBC Website: Carbon nanotube 'space camouflage' coating invented

STORY HERE

IS THIS NOT WHAT THEY HAVE BEEN USING TO CLOAK UFOS???

The cigar shaped uso springs to mind !

Tiny carbon tubes can be used to hide three-dimensional objects from view, according to a team of researchers.

The nanotubes are one-atom thick sheets of graphene wrapped into cylindrical tubes.

Engineers from University of Michigan found they could be used to obscure objects so that they appeared to be nothing more than a flat black sheet.

The team suggest "forests" of the material may one day be used to cloak spacecraft in deep space.

The group says the technology works because the nanotubes' "index of refraction [is] very close to that of air".

This means they slow down light to a similar degree.

As a result there is very little scattering of light as it passes from the air into the layer of nanotubes.

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More technology filtering through to the public domain. If we are getting to hear about it now it's because they have had it for years.

Makes you wonder what they really have got behind closed doors. Moore's Law and all that.

Oh I am sure they have had this for awhile. We hear about five years after its been developed and tested to be functional. So give or take they have had this for some time now. Never know what they are going to come up with and what research they are using. Glad we have the funding for things like this..

-SAP-

reply to post by DROKKR


University of Michigan, Applied Physics Letters journal, University of Texas at Dallas, Nature, Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain, University of Birmingham, St Andrews University, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, and the University of Surrey in the UK, for instance, are they also behind that closed door?

Its so cute the way they release technology and assign it with a New Discovery tag by some university and corporation that will get some government cheese, power and immunity. The technology is always there...no new discovery is taking place. It is released and assigned

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Of the uses we could think of for this tech, one of the first mentioned in the article is to hide tanks. smh.

Despite leaps and bounds in new tech, humanity still has a long way to go until it's out of diapers.

reply to post by DROKKR


Moore's law indeed. What they release to the public, they're already 40 years ahead. That's what I heard anyway...were...sorry, dunno. But think about it. If we're 40 years behind what's already out, what do you make of this? or this. And many other things that have come out in the last 10 years. The wold of tomorrow will be a strange place. If we get there.

Originally posted by Jasonlreeve
Engineers from University of Michigan found they could be used to obscure objects so that they appeared to be nothing more than a flat black sheet.

Reminds me of two black cuboids I saw flying at altitude some years back

In retrospect they could have been exotic military aircraft with this nanotube coating

Carbon Nanotubes have been around forever.

Even a simple search netted results from 2007.

Why is this news?

Originally posted by Furbs
Why is this news?

"All truth passes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Second it is violently opposed. Third it is accepted as being self-evident". - Arthur Schopenhauer

i guess we arrived at stage three

Originally posted by zorgon

Originally posted by Furbs
Why is this news?

"All truth passes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Second it is violently opposed. Third it is accepted as being self-evident". - Arthur Schopenhauer

i guess we arrived at stage three

Your tongue is sharp like a razor!

The BBC didn't mention that the "tiny 3D image" of a tank was truly tiny. It also didn't mention that the tiny tank disappeared against a black background.

What the nanotubes do is prevent light from being reflected from an object. So what do you get if the technology is applied to a "full sized" tank in the real world? You get a perfectly black tank against whatever background is behind it. You don't get an invisible tank. Why not just paint it black?




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Originally posted by zorgon

Originally posted by Furbs
Why is this news?

"All truth passes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Second it is violently opposed. Third it is accepted as being self-evident". - Arthur Schopenhauer

i guess we arrived at stage three

Get ready for stage four..

"The conspiracy theorists argue over whether or not it is all a lie."