Talk:Cloaking device

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[edit] Article Size Too Large

The article is starting to get really long. I propose that the Star Trek and Star Wars sections be moved to thier own seperate articles. --I 20:13, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

I have to agree. Surely the real cloaking devices currently researched should come first. Maybe with a brief SciFi history of the concept plus a separate article on cloaking device in popular culture? Doc phil 13:42, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
It is definetaly too long. Too much "in the popular culture" references.Headbomb (talk) 01:48, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
I agree with this assessment... I'll get to neutering all those references later and collapsing the examples. I'm thinking something along the lines of "cloaking devices have been explained to work in these ways, and have also been called by these various names." Ong elvin (talk) 04:43, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Removed vandalism

Some joker added a George Bush reference to the text below the Bird of Prey. 164.116.126.143 20:24, 27 October 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Star Wars cloaks

The information on Cloaking in the Star Wars universe is a little dated. The Empire developed cloaked fighters which were not only small (two man fighters) but also their sensors could function while the fighters were cloaked.

Additionally, that section could use some cleanup.RSido 02:50, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Real Life Cloaking Device

Nature.Com:Engineers devise invisibility shield. Andrea Alù and Nader Engheta at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia are developing a 'plasmonic cover' that theortically works by suppressing light scattering by resonating with illuminated light, which could render objects "nearly invisible to an observer". The plasmonic screen would have to be tuned the object it's hiding, and would suppress a specific wavelength: An object might be made invisible in red light would still be visible in multiwavelength daylight.

I'm not sure where to put this, as optical camouflage details "computer-assisted and image-projected-material" invisibility and it's fictional examples. Cloaking device was the first thing that came to my mind, since this is more of a field that retards light. --YoungFreud 00:10, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Ro & LaForge

The Next Generation also featured phased cloaking experiments that differed from traditional cloaking techniques. In The Next Phase, Geordi La Forge and Ro Laren are accidentally cloaked when helping a Romulan ship secretly testing phased cloaking. This technology was different in that it was capable of acting on a personal scale, did not require a cloaking device to stay cloaked, and allowed the cloaked people to pass through solid objects. Geordi and Ro were able to see and communicate with one another though and they discovered, with Data's help, how to detect and deactivate such cloaking. The Pegasus also speculated on a phased cloaking experiment performed by Starfleet that had gone bad similar to Starfleet's previous experiments with a Transwarp drive using the new (at the time) Excelsior class starship.

This is not cloaking technology but an "actual" phase displacement. --Zanaq 16:46, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Nevertheless, the last example was treated by the characters as a cloaking device (complete with galactic politics) so it does apply. Mucus 13:24, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Harry Potter

How shall we mention Harry Potter's invisibility cloak? It's not a "device", since it's "magical", but still ... Uncle Ed 21:26, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

I think we shouldn't mention it at all, because it's not a device nor technology. Power of invisibility is a common occurence in fantasy. -- Zanaq 07:59, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Harry Potter's cloak of invisibility is often mentioned in connection with research into cloaking devices. abdullahazzam 15:11, 21 October 2006

An important distinction should be made between cloaking as a 'technological' concept and invisibility as a 'magical' concept. It is a bit of a Sci-Fi/Fantasy distinction. Harry Potter's invisibility cloak does not belong on this page. --I 20:13, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Analog to invisibility

Often ships with cloaking devices are unable to attack. This is highly similar to how in many fantasy worlds invisibility terminates if one attacks. I'm not sure if this should be mentioned in this article and if so where. Thoughts? JoshuaZ 02:47, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

This common theme from computer gaming seems to be borrowed from the pen and paper roleplaying game Advanced Dungeons and Dragons (which first appeared in the seventies). --I 20:13, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Atlantis Can Cloak?

'The Puddle Jumpers in Stargate Atlantis (as well as Atlantis itself) have cloaking devices'

Atlantis itself doesnt have a cloaking device, Instead, they tied in the Jumper's cloaking system to Atlantis' shield so instead of generating a sheild, it generated a cloak.


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[edit] A Cloaking Device?

Have anyone of you guys seen this?

Shouldn't it be mentioned in the main article?

Robskin 04:34, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] What???Arbiters can cloak themselves???

Really? I play the game and Arbiters do not cloak, although they do cloak the area around them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Executor Tassadar (talk • contribs) 02:17, 17 February 2008 (UTC)