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Old 08-25-2015, 08:45 PM   #20
Anthony
 
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Default Re: [Spaceships] Heat Signature, Cloaking Device, and Stealth Hull

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Originally Posted by safisher View Post
A couple of thoughts here. First, in the "realistic" approach, we have just begun to tip our toes into metamaterials.
Which are completely irrelevant to the problem of stealth in space. At most, it gives options for reducing the reflected signature of a ship.
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Originally Posted by safisher View Post
Everyone now screaming that "there is no stealth in space" assumes that everything works in the far future as we now understand it.
We're assuming thermodynamics is true.
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