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From: mnw@trwrba.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Cloaking
Message-ID: <775@trwrba.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 4-Jun-84 08:36:07 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  4 08:36:07 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 6-Jun-84 05:26:45 EDT
Organization: TRW EDS, Redondo Beach, CA
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B. Cobb may have something there.  Let's have a discussion about
cloaking.  My feelings about how the device work is that either
it absorbs the outgoing light waves or as B. Cobb states, maybe
the light waves are bent in such a way, it appears to render the
object invisible.  The only thing that we know of that has the
power to drastically alter light is a black hole.  So from this
fact, I believe that it would take considerable power to use such
a device.  All the Federation wanted to do is to get one and learn
how it works, so that they could track a ship that was using the
device.


Michael N. Washington
TRW E&DS  Redondo Beach, Ca.  90278

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