I was going to say if I could be invisible, I would hang out with a bunch of animals in nature to see what they do when there are no humans around. Then I realized they would probably smell me, kill me, and eat me, then tell all their friends about that weird invisible meal they had that one time.
Cool idea tho and you could probably use a hide and boiler suit or something to nullify the smell and sound problems, but wouldn't be as mobile. The sound is probably the hardest thing.
It really depends on what animal you are trying to hide from and observe . Deer can be relatively easy to hide from ,make sure to be up wind ,mask your sent and be very still and quiet and deer can get very close to you without knowing you are there and single animals are a lot easier to hide from than groups because obviously I groups there are multiple eyes ,ears and noses that can detect you . That being said wild animals don’t really do anything differently than one would expect,their main focus is eating or finding something to eat , staying away from things that will eat them and depending on the time of year ,finding a mate to procreate with .
Yes, please Simon, by all means poke more fun at the Metaverse crowd (aka "Those Kind of People"). The sound of their angry scream-squeakles is sooooo soothing.
@@MAGGOT_VOMIT I just thought of something if there’s invisibility cloaks work like everyone says they do a word of advice don’t use them in the street and make yourself visible at the last second in front of a car
If I could turn invisible I would probably relax somewhere public without people looking at me. That sounds kind of silly, but anxiety is a weird thing!
Suffering with anxiety, being able to go invisible amongst people would be a dream! I get judged for actually liking some aspects of the "pandemic" lockdown. Wearing a mask and having the hood up on my hoodie gave me a sense of anonymity and didn't feel judged, the social distancing gave me personal space and less feeling of being trapped. Being introverted and suffering with extreme general anxiety disorder sucks massively when it comes to going anywhere near a lot of people. (A lot of people to me is more than 5... yh I have issues) chilling on the beach in the late evenings is my best way to settle my mind.
@Dinoslay keeping an eye on those in close proximity to my personal space has become a natural thing for me. I'm able to find pathways through or around groups to minimise the anxiety... it's 70% effective as there are times when there isn't a way through and that's when an anxiety attack starts to build. Fortunately I have a really close friend who comes with me to busy places as my chaperone and she isn't shy when it comes to getting me out of bad spots. Think celebrity body guard clearing fans out of the way l. She's only 5'6 tall and weighs less than 9 stone but she did a lot of martial arts including kick boxing, jiu jitsu and Judo. She's my rock and I owe her so much.
Harlan Ellison wrote a short story "Are You Listening?" about a man who was so boring and dull, he eventually disappeared to everyone around him. Of course, that was not cloaking, just becoming invisible. There's more to the story, but why give it away? It's in a compendium book of his short stories "The Time Of The Eye" by Panther Science Fiction, but most likely out of print.
earlier this year I was on a ranch under one of the MOAs for Randolph AFB and we kept hearing a jet flying above us but we were only able to catch brief glimpses of it at certain angles like during a turn when it looked like it was painted sky blue. We could hear it and even see vapor trails coming off the wings we just couldn't see it for more than a second at a time.
I’m autistic, work from home, and have neighbors who act like adolescents on spring break when the complex’s pool is open. If there was some kind of technology that would essentially cloak me from their loud music and partying so that my brain didn’t keep me in fight or flight mode, I would…well, probably cry from happiness that I could have some peace and quiet! Not the most fun answer but it’s an honest one.
Try noise canceling headphones. They work on a similar premise as optical cloaking. It records sound around you and then plays an exact opposite wavelength which "cloaks" or cancels the sound putting you in fight or flight. Hope this helps you
The Mass Effect series has an interesting take on stealth and cloaking. They basically acknowledge that at least for space-ships it would be utterly pointless because space is BIG and ships are tiny in comparison, to the odds of spotting one by looking out the window are so astronomical that it's basically considered an insane level of bad luck if it actually happened. Instead, cloaking in Mass Effect is all about hiding any emissions that would give your position away, including heat emissions. Stealth-ships have heat-sinks that all the ship's generated heat is dumped into temporarily until the ship can get to a safe place and dump its heat (which is done by ejecting molten sodium out of the front, letting it radiate its heat into space, and re-capturing it at the rear of the ship). Ships can only go stealthy for so long before they must dump their heat, otherwise the crew gets barbecued alive. Of course none of this hides the ship from active scans (radar, lidar, etc), but as such scans are emissions, you risk giving your own position away by using it to look for the ship you're hunting.
I'll be a dirty name! This is one of the first episodes of Science I actually agree with. Allegedly. Considering the plane has only been around for 112 years or so, Hell, I watched Apollo 11 on TV when I was 9. In 250 years who knows what humans will come up with. That's if the Time Aliens don't show up. LoL. Excellent video. Outstanding script! Simon, you're the Man. Cheers.
Surely the biggest, civilian and legal application for invisibility would be for filming. Imagine being able to have the cameraman getting the second angle anywhere in the shot or not having to worry about spotting the set crew in the background.
it would also cut down on the budgets, allowing for the cash to be spent elsewhere in the film itself and thus giving us better films, music videos, ect.
That would not work. Per definition, you cannot build a camera, a device designed to capture images in the visible spectrum out of a material meant to do the exact opposit, making the hidden object not interact with the light at all.
@@SeptemberMeadows Not all of them, I know quite a few nudists and out of the ones I know the majority of them are not exhibitionists, they just prefer the feeling of not wearing clothes. Along the same lines of underwear, the whole boxers vs briefs vs commando debate, mainly it comes down to the preference of the feeling of the material (or lack of) against your skin and which one that particular person prefers. I cannot speak for all nudists, but out of the dozen or so that I personally know, the ones that are exhibitionists are in the minority and the rest just prefer the feeling of being nude over the feeling of clothing against the skin.
Except this would make ghosts be even more unbelievable. Instead of just video editing or costumes, a ghost would also be explainable as someone invisible.
Thank you for your video! That’s super-exciting - and I like the car-part a lot, because it shows how such devices would actually be used in science-fiction worlds.
4:38 I would call that one bs, because if it was real I can assure you the millitary would already be ALL OVER that, that was genuinely awesome camo. In the middle of some bushes no one would see this if they were not looking for it.
To paraphrase hitchhikers guide to the gallery. The technology to make something invisible is soo complex and expensive 9 times out of 10 it's better to just take it away and do without
The thing just wrecking modern warfare tactics is the availability of thermal optics/imaging (for individuals, and on drones). You cna have camo that works fairly well when viewed under nightvision, but super difficult with thermal, and sort of impossible to really do it to significant degree (considering how much a body puts off, let alone a gun that has heated up from firing). You can use optical cloaking of tanks/APCs etc but it doesn't mean crap when a $400 digital thermal optic can detect it from 1mi away
Love the new channel Simon. The new special effects are very distracting though when trying to absorb the information you are communicating. Specifically starting at 9:33 in the video. Most of the new graphics were a nice add, I think it was just the circles and diamonds moving around your face while you were talking that were a bit much.
Hi Simon, I live near a well known Nuclear processing facility in the US. While traveling on a nearby highway my son (17) and I witnessed around 40 silent drones, approximately the size of household washing machines flying in a swarming pattern. The devices navigated to just above our car, my son had his phone handy and took a photo. Nothing but sky was visible in his photo, and they just vanished before our eyes. This tech exists today, I am sure.
Dammit, I needed to run to the store and you post this.....I guess dinner I going to get started a lil late tonight lol thanks for posting Simon and Co. 💯👌👍
What would you do if you could turn invisible? An episode of the X Files with a genie. The guy wished to be invisible. He was hit by a truck and nobody saw him lying there dead because, well, he was invisible.
Did you miss the first cloak that effected the outcome of WWII ? Planes hunting German subs were seen coming from miles away, the U-boats had time to submerge. The The United States Army Air Corps put lights under the planes and adjusted them to match the brightness of the sky they were flying in. After which the planes were heard before were seen, and being to late to submerge they were often destroyed. I would call that an effective cloak.
This is just a bad approximation, as it can only hide them from a certain angle And you'd still be able to see them from the back or the sides But as for ocean fight in WW2 it was more than enough
I would also like to add that something like retro-reflector panels from the HeliCarrier, Quinjet and even the Shield Cargo Plane from Marvel, would also probably work if designed properly. Downside Is just like in Spiderman: Homecoming...if something got in the way of the camera, it would give away the position of the cloaked object...
It would make a good theft protection for hotels provided you remember where you put the item. Could also use it to hide damage or messes. It could provide good heat shields for structures in space that are exposed to the sun directly.
Honestly anything in space. It's big enough that you wouldn't need excessive cloaking to conceal it from earth. Could send out deep space satellites/probes and make them invisible
If you could make large objects invisible I wonder if it would help with cooling a house and other objects. If you can bend the light around entirely then the light would not be hitting the object and that would cause it to heat up less. You could also have areas that look mostly natural but still have houses there.
I don't know that I personally would find much use for invisibility to sight, sound, and touch, but I think it would breed vast research potential for any subject or scenario where the observer wishes to impact the results as little as possible with their own presence. This could apply to numerous events among wildlife, and even observing human interaction without that interaction being skewed by the existence of an observer. Lots of options.
I'd be invisible for self-defense and general peace and quiet. As a woman with a big bust, being invisible while e.g. jogging would be heaven. No more being leered at or followed by creeps, and if someone did notice and follow me, all I would need to do is tiptoe around them. The problem is, of course, that the creeps could be invisible too and e.g. sneak past me into my house when I was getting in. Anyone who's ever had a stalker knows that the most likely consequence of cloaking technology becoming both advanced and affordable would basically be the movie The Invisible Man coming to life. I think being invisible myself isn't worth the anxiety of knowing that my stalker ex could do that too.
Saw a video like 20 years ago of an ambush on a tank, like a small bomb popping the tracks on it. You see a distortion move by a brick wall then up the tank, and boom , all of a sudden, there’s a guy standing on the tank trying or getting the hatch open. Crazy stuff.
Maybe 12 years ago I read an article that was from a German news source that said DARPA was testing this technology already and also was testing a heat seeking bullet. Can’t remember the source though.
What would you do if you could become invisible? Teenaged me- "Use it to spy on girls in the locker room". Adult me- "Use it so people leave me the hell alone"
I would haunt giant televised sporting events by making the ball move in an unnatural manner. I would make dogs levitate at dog shows. Open backseat car doors at stop lights. Fart loudly near people in public who aren't around anyone else. And when I'm not busy pranking people I would probably do some vigilantly work on the side.
Try this point of view; The stating cloaking devices wouldn't be invented for hundreds of years was actually meant to be as a challenge so it could be studied as a possibility and done much earlier than the science fiction that spurred it indicated. Further, in ST:TNG there were a few within the Federation that took that technology a step further with the "Phased Cloak" which, to my mind, should have fully been explored. - A change in the treaty with the Romulan Star Empire is shown to be needed with nearly every episode there is an encounter with their vessels.
My brother swears he saw a orb type thing flying that seemed like something with a cloaking mechanism flying in weird patterns. Him and my other brother both saw it. I also saw some weird stuff in the sky where I live.
while not cloaking technology, using lights.as countershading helped delay visibile detectio as done in the Project Yehudi aircraft to help anti sub planes get closer to surfaced Uboats.
I know Kevin doesn't sleep because he tweets about his late nights but damn you crazy bastard, regularly contributing to BB, CC, DtU and being the (sole?) writer for this channel? Madman. Plus some Sideprojects thrown in?
Obviously, the best use of a cloaking device is military, especially snipers (for people) and warships for larger objects. For a sniper, they really only need adaptive camouflage. Not perfect, but what they need is to hide in nearby terrain and wait. So if you're not looking for them, just making them harder to see is an advantage. A "Predator" style cloak may be enough for this application. Easily seen at close range during combat, but only if you're looking for it. For a warship (or starship 🙂), you need to hide from sensors. So you need to hide from radar (which we can't already do) or lidar or whatever crazy futuristic technology you're hiding from. So although it's easy enough to hide a soldier on the ground or a plain out of view, we don't really know what the Star Trek sensors were hiding from. I think they find clokes ships from neutrino emissions or tachyon emissions. So while as can hide a ship Fein radar now, visible light may not be enough for a warship/starship, so the 23rd century may not be unrealistic.
Camouflage is not meant to make you invisible, but rather make it harder for the enemy to tell what they are looking at, how many there are, etc. In this sense, most camouflage devices you mentioned in the video work pretty well. That being said, though, they really do nothing that painting your gear green and brown can't while costing a fraction of the cost, so no real use for them there.
I'd disagree on the metamaterials as being able to cloak your IR signature as well as further reducing visible light detection by 2 thirds alongside wearing camouflage designed to further mitigate live detection would be imperitive to special forces soldiers penetrating deep behind enemy lines to conduct sabotage or intelligence gathering in which reducing the chances of detection by enemy forces is crucial component of the mission in order to conduct said mission.
I think a flexible tv screen is the best option. It maybe difficult making it as flexible as a blanket but over the next 50 years we may see some cool attempts, it'll definitely be around within 200 years.
