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Thank you Crow, I was just thinking that the small artifact items look like something that men would carry

into war, how interesting - that pocket shrine is beautiful! The USA Moundbuilder sites are littered with

arrowheads, it was probably a battle that left so many weapons around. Thomas D., did you think that I was still

in touch with Alexius? Sadly, no. I heard from him as you did, just the one time and then again to confirm that he agreed

with the identity of the character "C." just before the diary pages were ripped out. Can you picture it? The diarist is planning a

tour to Russia with a party of intellectuals and one of them turns out to be A.C.! I`m not surprised that the diary ended there.

"R." who was also on that trip is thought to be the poet Rilke who loved Russia. Another party guest, G.F. was the famous

composer Gabriel Faure. After all Thomas D., it was you who pointed out that "J.B." were not the initials of Emma Calve`s manager,

she`d referred to "Jules Bois" her fiancee as her manager to her guests. Thank you to "i" for the identification of these new characters

in the diary of Don Rodrigo.

Sorry for going too off topic but this is just too amazing not to share.

I can see developers eventually looking to something like this in order to build on sites previously denied them, areas of natural beauty etc. On the fourth picture down it does blend quite well, although i'm assuming this is a digital representation. From what i've read scientists have been trying to 'cloak' objects so far, that is, bend light around them in order to render them invisible. They now seem to be working with plasmonic materials, which cancels the image, a photo negative if you like.

TD take note.

But, say the researchers, the experiment is important proof of a principle that so-called plasmonic meta-materials can achieve a cloaking effect.


A warplane cloaked with such materials could achieve "super-stealth" status by becoming invisible in all directions to radar microwaves, said co-lead investigator Andrea Alu.


Plasmonic meta-materials are composites of metal and non-conductive synthetics made of nanometre-sized structures that are far smaller than the wavelength of the light that strikes them.

As a result, when incoming photons hit the material, they excite currents that make the light waves scatter.

The new experiment entailed making a shell of plasmonic meta-materials and placing the cylinder inside, and exposing the combination to microwaves.

Microwaves scattered by the shell ran into microwaves bounced from the object, preventing them sending a return signal to the viewer.

"When the scattered fields from the cloak and the object interfere, they cancel each other out, and the overall effect is transparency and invisibility at all angles of observations," said Alu.

Any shape of object can be masked, he added.

The cloaking worked best at a microwave frequency of 3.1 gigahertz, said the paper.

Thanks for the vid Rain, i guess cloaking a moving, or large object is something altogether different. Just think of the impact that could have in the future. Aaaagh, stuck on Youtube now! Must resist...

I can see developers eventually looking to something like this in order to build on sites previously denied them, areas of natural beauty etc. On the fourth picture down it does blend quite well, although i'm assuming this is a digital representation. From what i've read scientists have been trying to 'cloak' objects so far, that is, bend light around them in order to render them invisible. They now seem to be working with plasmonic materials, which cancels the image, a photo negative if you like.

TD take note.

Of Course!
Silly me, I should have realised! 'Seven of Nine' appeared and rendered the evidence INVISIBLE,
just like the Emperors new clothes!
If any one sees Scotty please tell him that we 'Can change the laws of Physics'!
It's very quiet on the new Forum, will the momentum gather once the Romulans buy into it?

TD

Of Course!
Silly me, I should have realised! 'Seven of Nine' appeared and rendered the evidence INVISIBLE,
just like the Emperors new clothes!
If any one sees Scotty please tell him that we 'Can change the laws of Physics'!
It's very quiet on the new Forum, will the momentum gather once the Romulans buy into it?

TD

Did you join Thomas?
& "seven of nine" and Scotty are from two different series, two different timezones and two separate quadrants.

Ok, thats flushed out the Trekkie!
As you may be aware, Rain, the Space-Time Contimuim is all shot to hell so the Federation is running out of options Now that the Klingons have the Crista!
Bless You!
TD

Then you should know that it is the Q-Continuum that introduces the Federation to the Borg(first contact) the Q comes from outside the confines of our known Space-Time Continuum.
They are omnipotent & omniscient and it has been suggested that is where humanity is heading as it evolves over eons.

So do the Borg have the Crista?
Now that would be controversial!!!!
TD

Speaking of joining........to boldly go etc etc etc..............
Its just like an Agatha Cristie Novel. Twelve members, take away the two Chris's and who could the ringer be?!!!!!!!

There was no sub-text, I was just correcting the star trek spacial distortion that seemed to be appearing around it's apocrypha as any true purist Trekkie would do.



So I take it that's a 'Yes' you've joined.

Harpy harpyja from San Paolo, Brazil - the Harpy Eagle.

T.D., you continue to refer to those news articles with the phoney cut and pasted dates as evidence,

as for the Boscolo Hotel, the Boscolo family had other hotels besides the Grand Boscolo - JB1717 pointed out that

Castillon referred to "the Boscolo" as a "bourgeois hotel". The headlines in 1900 were about the Boer War, Emma Calve

was not at the opera opening that year as you tried to prove with your false evidence. Quit with the insults against the

women on this forum, your slander for hire routine is so old.

I hadn't spotted the subtext, was just riding the wave in the absence of anything meaningful to discuss.

You're entitled to draw your own inferences as always!
TD

I realised you hadn't spotted anything as your question "Do the Borg have the Crista?" indicates.

I don't think the "borg" have the "crista" but it's good to see you're stretching "ze little grey cells, mon ami"

And you thank-you for educating me on my entitlements - I consider it quite patronising as always!

What we really need in here, like a splinter in the eye, is a ToaD. What a talented amphibic little animal that is - a mason toad. If you've never seen any - join Arcadia Forum NOW!

OOH, THATS AWKWARD!
A thousand apologies, had not used enough emoticons to denote humour!
I promise not to try and engage you humourously again in case I might,
however inadvertently, leave you feeling patronised!

Kind regards,
TD
(is that enough?)

TD is a Mason? I`d forgotten that. Do you know what an F4 is TD?

We had one in the USA yesterday, it was one of many.