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Klingons Not Only Ones With Invisibility Cloak
Barely Enough Room already for Chinese and Russian Spies At Berkley - And Now….
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.
The Russian Bear Is Back In A Big Way With New Attack Submarines
Russia Building New Offensive Nuke Armed Underwater Boats
The construction of new-generation nuclear-powered ballistic missile and attack submarines is a top priority for the Russian Navy’s development, the Navy commander said on Friday according to the Russian Information Agency Novosti
According to a new doctrine for the development of the armed forces, Russia will completely modernize the naval component of its nuclear triad by 2016.
Fourth-generation Borey-class nuclear-powered submarines armed with Bulava missiles would form the core of Russia’s fleet of modern strategic submarines.
The first submarine in the series, Yury Dolgoruky was built at the Sevmash plant in the northern Arkhangelsk Region and will soon join the Russian Navy. It will be equipped with 16 Bulava (SS-NX-30) ballistic missiles, which can carry up to ten nuclear warheads, and have a range of 8,000 kilometers (about 5,000 miles).
Two other Borey-class nuclear submarines, the Alexander Nevsky and the Vladimir Monomakh, are currently under construction at the Sevmash plant.
In 2009, the Russian Navy will receive the first nuclear-powered attack submarine of the Project 885 Yasen (Graney) class, named Severodvinsk.
Russia is also building a new series of diesel-electric submarines.
A spray of polls find discontent with Congress, and Reporters.
A new WSJ/Fox News Poll finds 75% of Americans demanding more domestic oil be produced.
It is then not surprising that just 15% approve of the job Congress is doing as Democrats block and delay any new oil production.
Fifty percent believe the media makes economic conditions appear worse than they really are, Only a quarter (25%) think reporters and media outlets present an accurate picture of the economy.
49% say reporters are trying to election Barack Obama president only 14% say they are trying to help M<cCain win.
An Investors Daily study of 255 reporters founds that 92% contribute to Democrats and less than 8% say they have contributed to a Republican
With Friends Like These.
Maybe The New Yorker Should Receive A Special Category Hypocrisy.com Horse’s A** Award.
Barack Obama’s campaign says a satirical New Yorker magazine cover showing the Democratic presidential candidate dressed as a Muslim and his wife as a terrorist is “tasteless and offensive.” The notoriously liberal magazine defends itself by saying its satirical cartoon cover raises the issues in such an absurd way that they can be more easily debunked and its editor said he was surprised by the furor.
Huffington Post, a left-leaning blog, said: “Anyone who’s tried to paint Obama as a Muslim, anyone who’s tried to portray Michelle as angry or a secret revolutionary out to get Whitey, anyone who has questioned their patriotism - well, here’s your image.”
The cartoon also features an American flag burning in a fireplace behind the couple, and that itself is cited by conservatives as offensive in the extreme. The whole thing is tasteless and foolish exemplifying a magazine’s’ staff run amuck.
Safer With McCain Than Clinton Or Obama
An April 22 Ipsos poll finds (52%) feel the world would be a safer place with John McCain as President versus Clinton (45%) and Obama (44%).
Americans in the South (59%) and the Midwest (57%) are more likely than those in the West (44%) or the Northeast (43%) to think that John McCain would make the world safer as president. Men (57%) are more likely than women (47%) to feel the same way.
On the other hand, Americans living in the West (55%) are more likely than those living in the Northeast (47%), the Midwest (43%), or the South (40%) to think that Hilary Clinton would make the world safer. Regarding Barack Obama, Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 (50%) are more likely than those between the ages of 35 and 54 (46%) and those over the age of 54 (36%) to think that he would make the world a safer place. As well, Western Americans (52%) are more likely than Northeastern (44%), Midwestern (43%), and Southern (40%) Americans to feel the same way.
Hillary on HypChannel with Chief Hypocrite
CH: Mrs Clinton, before we begin, let me say how impressed I am of your political career ever since you plugged into politics as a young Republican from Illinois.
HRC: That is kind of you to say, and thanks for pointing out that while I did start out on the dark side, I very early on discovered a better way, and the voters can benefit from my good judgment. Speaking of good judgment did your parents name you Chief Hypocrite?
Chief Hypocrite Surges with W (aka Dubya)
Welcome to the Inaugural Fake Interview by Chief Hypocrite, using proprietary channeling techniques, PPUC (process patent under consideration).
We decided to choose to interview the President of the United States. We are honored by this choice:
Chief Hypocrite: Mr President, before we get started I must tell you how impressed I am that you have become the President of the United States, not once but twice.
W: Well, Chefe, this here interview, ’snot really my ballgame like when I owned that team down there in god country, What you using some kind of powerful juju stick? The American, they people spoke good both times. Talk to the people.