Visions (or not) of Grandeur

There have been a few times in my life when I just couldn't believe what I was reading. Once was when I read an article about how Pizza Hut was negotiating with NASA to purchase the rights to emblazon the moon with a Pizza Hut logo that would be visibile from earth. Evidently there was some type of laser technology available that could actually do this.

I'm not kidding.

Luckily for star gazers and nighttime lovers, the idea fell through and the moon remained the same.

The latest Holy Shit moment came a week or so ago, when I read that - get this - scientists and engineers had actually made an object invisible with an "invisibility shield".

Again, not kidding. Go ahead, google it. You'll see (or maybe not. Ha!)

The "cloaking" technology works thus: since all vision is caused by the reflection of light rays bouncing from an object into someone's eye, why not wrap an object in an invisibility shield which will collect all the light around the object so no light can "bounce" back to an eye. There you see it, and now you....don't!

The latest experiment was deemed successful as it made an object completely invisible in two out of our three dimensions. There was only one problem: the object still cast a shadow. Scientists are working on this problem now.

I don't know about you, but to me this is both totally freaky and very cool. Stay tuned.