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Hurtubise says invention sees through walls
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Mac|caM said:
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
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Hah!!! Pointing lasers at the sky, notify the feds
why not show it actually doing what it says
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:
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.
jayscheuerle
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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...
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...
jayscheuerle
macrumors 68020
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
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Come on! why wouldn't it just see through the people as well?
jayscheuerle
macrumors 68020
Thomas Veil said:Good point.
Why don't we ask Ray Milland?
THAT took a bit to hunt down...
Maybe he's hiding in front of the beam?
jayscheuerle said:THAT took a bit to hunt down...
Maybe he's hiding in front of the beam?
No no nO, that would make the gun an "invisible ray gun" then.
jayscheuerle
macrumors 68020
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!
