NEWS: You Know What's Awesome About Invisible Tanks? Everything

GEEK: You Know What's Awesome About Invisible Tanks? Everything

This is one of those developments that reaffirms my belief in the impossible.

Holy shit. How do you even react to news that incredible? "Oh really, you invented an invisible tank, huh? Cool, so, uh, should I just give you all my money and belongings or...?"

I pity the guy standing across from him at the next cocktail party. "What have I been up to? Oh... this and that... not too much, really... Annnd, I built an invisible tank. A tank, remember how kick-ass they are? Giant gun, armor, etc... Sure you do, well, I said, why not mix that with, 'invisible'? Ahem, how about you? How's that whole "not building an invisible tank" thing working out for you? Oh, that's too bad."

There are just certain things that, despite my wishes to the contrary, I absolutely do not believe are possible. World-conquering robots, spider-strength, zombies, a funny Dane Cook bit... And then along comes something that throws it all into turmoil. Yes, prior to today, 17 minutes ago, to be precise, the idea of "invisible tanks," sounded fairly fucking preposterous to me... and yet, now we got 'em.

2012 ... I can totally make it 'til then.

This sounds like the explanation I'd have heard at the age of 11 from that one kid whose Halloween costume was "army man" every single year. I'd have thought it sounded good but figured it was bullshit.

Even now, two paragraphs back, if you'd asked me to explain how I thought we got invisible tanks I'd have said,"Well, it's simple, someone in the British government has befriended a sorcerer. A 'good-guy one', if he's offering to help us." My second guess would've been, "Hmmm, as far as I know, invisibility is often delivered via a serum... I'm gonna say, someone spilled the serum on a tank and voila! Invisible tank. No? Oh, I'm an idiot? Cool, I'll sit down now...

Excuse me, I'm going take a quick break to pen an open letter.

Dear This Article - Please stop blowing my fucking mind. If you keep being so awesome, the rest of my world will begin to fade in comparison. Thank you for understanding.

Okay, I'm back... To sum up, in a few years we'll have invisible tanks running around our planet. What this means is, for the rest of my life, I can no longer scoff at ridiculous theories and ideas... A friend could tell me he built a time machine out of a can-opener and when I laughed he'd hit me with, "Okay, laugh it up, 'guy who didn't believe we could make invisible tanks. Hah, shows what you know... Now I'm off to ancient Atlantis to bet on crab races and I'm not even taking you!" What a rip-off.

Happy Halloween, Jerks!!!


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Awesome.

What?!

holy freakin crap! This will destroy the minds of every conspiracy theorist out there lol. Oh and just so you know we have had invisible tanks for like 5 years, you just cant see them

One can only imagine what that would be like. The enemy would have no idea 50 tanks are rolling them into the ground.

Fuck ya. But kinda scary if they get a military jacket that works on the same principles. Ya wont be able to get away with crap.

Happy halloween people

Just catching up to wonder woman

I need to make my Tercel invisible...


Just sayin.

Wow. That's amazing. The Brittish goverment did something.... Hollywood's been doing for fucking YEARS. There's a wax museum at Niagara Falls, with movie characters and stuff... Yeah. They use the same "amazing new technology" to make a predator appear out of nowhere. I'm not impressed.

I'll admit.... this is probably the largest scale something like that's been done on. But still, nothing new.

Come to think of it. Anyone remmeber David Copperfield making the statue of liberty dissapear? Yeah, same damned principle. Why is everyone so amazed by it all of a sudden? Boggles the mind.

Holy fucking shit, that is beyond badass and such.

So ghost in the shell. Our great grand kids are going to live out all our "invisible in the girls shower" dreams from highschool.

pffft!

LOLCats have been doing invisible for years!

Maybe they can make Dane C. invisible too and people will have to listen to his bits without the miming.

And also this is awesome news - invisible tanks.

soundless too? maybe you can work on that part.

Sure they can't see it, but won't they hear it? I mean, it's a fucking tank. And couldn't you still see them with infrared cameras, or heat sensing cameras like the ones they use to look for ghosts on Ghost Hunters??

^^invisible witty comment^^

hmmmm...
Sir John Pendry: Minister, we've developed an invisible tank.
Minister of Defence: I'd like to see that!
Sir John Pendry: You can't.
Minister of Defence: Why not? Where is it?
Sir John Pendry: You're looking at it.
Minister of Defence: That's amazing! Here's your licence to print money!

Impossible? Instant communication throughout the world is impossible but no one thinks the wiser.

*cough* well maybe if you were deaf and they were all on a highway, on raw terrain their destruction would be quite notceable, covering the tank in material that would outline its shape, not to mention in desert or even dry conditions the huge plume of dust that could be seen.

The best use of this would be when a tank is sitting still, like when forming an anti tank position, which is wherever you park your tank, though nothing a little cluster bomb of paintbballs couldnt expose.....

invisible tank overlords, etc

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Ah yes... it's a brave knew world!

Uh... am I the only one who's creeped out by this?

Yeah it sounds awesome and all but once these things move it will be easy enough to pick them out.

How bout invisible diesel exhaust, or invisible tracks on the ground.

or, DUH, and invisible tank sensing camera? Why do you have to pull in all that techno mumbo jumbo?

Seriously though, have you actually seen an invisible tank for yourself? Are you going to take some jarhead's word for it when HE says he's seen an Invisible tank?

I didn't know we had a Ministry.