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Originally posted by Puke:
mirror finish will reflect all kinds of lasers.. but good luck having any kind of stealth with that.
At the distances we're likely to be at, it's not likely that anyone will be using light as the medium of choice for detection. More likely would be mass detection or ... Actually, I have no idea. But i think it's unlikely to be only light. a mirror finish would be unlikely to effect detection after a few thousand kms or so.
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I remember some star trek quote from the klingons... "i respect the federation, who else has the balls to paint their war ships WHITE and put RUNNING LIGHTS on them."
Oooh. I like it!
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i digress. as far as FTL information travel, we are doing it today (in the lab anyway) with intertangled pairs of photons and funkey quantum mechanics that I dont even pretend to understand.
I'd heard something about this but frankley, I have no idea if it's just wind, or there's some substance to these claims.
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FTL travel in the SEIV case involves neat fiction like space 'folding' or wormholes[/b]
My (limited) understanding of this type of travel is that it doesn't invalidate our current understanding of physics - it mereley bypasses it.
Cheers.