Yes, I said this. I made mistakes during my reign, a lot. I tried to make wars in a honorable way, instead of trying to avoid them. But at least I'm aware of these mistakes, and I know I'll have to answer for them to the Allmighty.

Furthermore: Can you imagine a similar quote by George W. Bush?

*sideways glance right*
*sideways glance left*

I would also like to add to my previous statement that I for one, welcome our new invisible overlords.

I'm also thinking of the kind of thick wet mud a 1,100hp tank flings everywhere while moving across wet ground. That would have to be a helluva electrostatic field, and it seems like it still wouldn't do anything about mud flung into the view of the cameras.

I think the next invisible thing will be "You can't see me" Armor!!!

It will be great at birthday parties

DUDE.

No, but I can find quite a few that are the opposite in message.

"There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again."

Anybody else want His Highness to run for President this election? I can make up some bumper stickers.

Thanks,

Yeah, I guess mud might be a bit of a problem if you're actually moving through it, and yes projection would be a bit of an issue once you got muddy. That's why the metamaterial idea is so much better (it doesn't project an image of the background, it bends light around it, so you actually see what is in the background). It also helps to think of it being employed in a field instead of being the actual surface of the tank (therefore, the tank can get as dirty as it wants).

But once you're moving, you still have other issues (like kicking up a dust cloud, same problem with larger ballistic weapon systems once they are fired). I imagine that new strategies would develop because of the limitations of the technology, but there may yet be other technological answers to the problems. For one, energy weapon (lasers and microwave for instance) would help keep your position from being known even while firing. The military is also already developing hybrid engines so a tank could remain quiet during stealth mode while still being able to maneuver. I think that about covers it.

That being said, I'd imagine this future tank idea will be so unbelievably expensive that they'll never be used.

This night I had a strange dream, involving towels, a shoe-shaped spaceship, a whale turning into a petunia, mice, the number 42, and dolphins. When I woke up, my first thought was "Instead of making the tank invisible, why not create an Somebody-Else's-Problem-field around it?"

I've no idea what this dream or this sentence means. I asked my court astrologer but he didn't know it either. Maybe this makes sense to one of you people?

So, what you are saying, sort of, in a way, is that we should not stick our noses into other people's affairs? That's silly.

No, that's not what I'm saying! Meanwhile I googled "Somebody-Else's-problem field" and found this.

Oh.

Bwahahahaha!

did u know that the word gullible is not in the dictionary? this technology could easily be defeated with a paint-ball gun... or dirt, or water balloons filled with ink, or smoke bombs, or bird shit, or an EMP (electro-magnetic pulse), GOT MILK?, or....

did you know that word gullible is not in the dictionary?

This technology is useless. It could easily be defeated with a paintball gun or a water-balloon full of ink, or magnetic metal shavings sprinkled on the ground wherever a tank could get through, or bird shit, or...

how you gonna keep the tank clean enough for it to work?

What about noise? heat? the airborne dust trail from movement? the muzzle flash?

Why not spend the money for this project on feeding war refugees or alternative ways to make peace?