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Mac|caM said:
I'm not as skeptical as the rest of you. Maybe it's just the conspiracy-theorist in me coming out, but I think it's plausible. It'd be pretty cool if it was. I don't think France would pay him $40,000 bucks if it wasn't at least partly for real.

Simple pictures of the thing working would be all you'd need. $40k is nothing and who says they actually paid him.

Sure, there is a slim chance that this could be real, but the whole thing just smells bad. It would be in the news internationally in minutes if it was viable. And portability isn't even an issue here. If you can put it in a van and have it work from 100 yards you've got a really good thing here.

Not only for special ops, but for police and search and rescue. Imagine being able to use this to find people trapped under collapsed buildings after an earth quake? The potential for this is way too big - and I'm going to be skeptical until I see some proof....or a Nobel Prize :p

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He directed the Angel Light beam toward the sky and started the plane flying.
Hah!!! Pointing lasers at the sky, notify the feds


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why not show it actually doing what it says

“That’s when I realized there was a Hyde effect, as in Jekyll and Hyde, and I dismantled the whole thing.”

because it was only not going to make you a billionaire
 
Just for the record, there was a video camera that Sony came out with about ten years ago that incorporated some new low-light or infrared (I forget) technology. It was quickly pulled from the market when it was discovered that it could actually see through thin clothing. But for a very short time, it was extremely popular with guys who frequented beaches.
 
Thomas Veil said:
Just for the record, there was a video camera that Sony came out with about ten years ago that incorporated some new low-light or infrared (I forget) technology. It was quickly pulled from the market when it was discovered that it could actually see through thin clothing. But for a very short time, it was extremely popular with guys who frequented beaches.

Many digital cameras can do that. The thing is that visible light swamps IR so you need a special filter that lets IR through but stops visible. The same effect can be achieved with with IR sensitive film, shot with the same filter.

There are some art sights out there where people use it to get some spectacular effects (things just look different and odd not so much looking through the clothes.) There are also some porn sites.

Information Unlimited used to carry plans for near IR video cameras.
 
If this thing sees through walls or clothes or whatever, how does it know when to quit seeing through stuff? Why would it be able to see through a layer of sheetrock, some wooden studs, another layer of sheetrock and yet not the lamp on the table behind it?

Shoudn't it be just like a giant anti-flashlight, with a dark beam that reveals the black nothingness that lies behind the furthest thing away (stars and such)?

Is it a perfectly focused beam, or do the edges fade off to opaqueness?

Not much to go on here...
 
Mr. Anderson said:
Not only for special ops, but for police and search and rescue. Imagine being able to use this to find people trapped under collapsed buildings after an earth quake? The potential for this is way too big - and I'm going to be skeptical until I see some proof....or a Nobel Prize :p

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Come on! why wouldn't it just see through the people as well?
 
maya said:
No no nO, that would make the gun an "invisible ray gun" then. ;) :)

So, you can see through him, but he's not invisible? Hmmm... Even if he's transparent, wouldn't his higher density cause him to have a higher refractive index? Then, the invisible surface curves would also cause distortions and magnifications of the objects behind him... All without surface reflections of course.

Did this guy think this thing out at all? It's obvious to me that this thing causes headaches!
 
jayscheuerle said:
So, you can see through him, but he's not invisible? Hmmm... Even if he's transparent, wouldn't his higher density cause him to have a higher refractive index? Then, the invisible surface curves would also cause distortions and magnifications of the objects behind him... All without surface reflections of course.

Did this guy think this thing out at all? It's obvious to me that this thing causes headaches!

This concept did come to him in a DREAM. ;) :)

Maybe its all just a dream. ;) :p
 
MacNut said:
There is another invention that will see through walls, its called a sledgehammer. :rolleyes:

Not only does it allow you to see through walls, it also creates a permanent opening! :D
 
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