Ok..y'know that veryyyy common question that everyone likes to randomly ask at one point or another...about what super power you would like to possess if given the chance?
Since young I have always wished to have the power of invisibility
Why?
I'm ashamed to say that at that time,it was more for reasons of mischief than anything else.
As I grew older though,I wished for that particular power so as to escape from the watching eyes of the world & explore places far and beyond at my whim and fancy.
Suffice to say I was very much taken with the Invisibility Cloak presented to Harry
in the Harry Potter series of books..I'd always try to visualize how it would look like,and how sometimes he'd share it with Ron & Hermione..and of course..I was glued to Heroes when the first season started running last year around February on StarWorld..
Superpowers and heroes and villains...
Good VS Bad
How exciting isn't it?
Then again..this is the stuff movies & comics are made of..and only that..right?
Wrong.
While waiting for Mary's call,came across this interesting nugget of news on Yahoo..
Thought this is what I had been wishing for all the while,but strangely
the first thought to come to mind was.."Uh oh"
Read on..
"WASHINGTON -
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."
When I read this..I wanted to say "wow"!
Then when I really finished reading the whole thing..
I could only thing of negative stuff
Sometimes I think Man interferes too much
I doubt we NEED such an invention
Imagine the chaos & destruction it could bring when in the wrong hands!
Now by making this so public,
I bet this much of info itself would be useful to some fanatic creep with an intelligent mind
SO FREAKING STUPID LA!!
No good is gonna come out of such an invention
Nothing but more wars,bloodshed & misery
No heroes either.
As it is,I only know of dear darling who'd wanna save the world but besides him..zilch.
Sorry to sound so pessimistic but really..
I hope this thing never works.
Even if it does,I hope the bigheads don't keep boasting about it
*fingers crossed*
This is me,Patricia