10-24-2006, 05:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Oldfart
I suspect that to hide a person even to the level of the movie "Predator", the power usage would be prohibitive.
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Oldfart.
Perhaps at the moment, but for how long? In the instance of computers, I recall that the size has come down quite a bit during the same period that the speed has gone up. While the current state of the art in metamaterials is modest indeed, we may be surprised how fast the technology transforms these crude first efforts into something gekkogecko worries about.
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