I generally try to avoid octopuses - in the sense of touching them, eating them, or committing to a spelling of the plural word - but I am fascinated by how they basically prove we absolutely could make invisibility cloaks irl if we really tried to
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The problem is in science fiction or whatever they always call the invisibility suit a "Chameleon suit" or whatever and of course chameleons suck A dull green lizard turns into a dull brown lizard but you can still fucking see there's a lizard right there, big whoop
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But cephalopod active camo is on a whole other level man Marine biologists who spend their whole lives studying these things still can't see them if they don't want to be seenhttps://youtu.be/q8xJ13pAZNw
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It's because it's "smart camo", the skin is covered with optic cells that interface with chromatophores and the octopus' distributed nervous system The whole octopus' body is constantly "visually processing" its background, it can go "stealth mode" without "thinking" about it
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Which obviously no vertebrate land animal with its brain all jammed up in a central CPU in its skull can do But it's the kind of thing computer vision researchers are working on all the time now
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The most recent remake of Invisible Man's mechanism for the invisibility wasn't all that implausible at all honestly, even to the extremes of being invisible while she was standing right next to him
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Admittedly, it did raise some questions over how the thing has to go over his entire body and it apparently doesn't affect his ability to breathe or thermoregulate Like the sweat must really pool in there if he's hiding in her house all day
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(Sort of the opposite problem as the OG Invisible Man, whose flesh was somehow magically made actually invisible, which meant he had to be naked all the time and vulnerable to hypothermia)
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Now I'm just thinking of that version of Invisible Man being played for black comedy rather than horror, taking into account biological needs The camera lingers on an empty bathroom and then very slowly, gingerly a disembodied dick appears over the toilet and starts peeing
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If those Fantastic Four movies were R-rated, you know they would've had at least considered throwing in that kind of joke for Susan
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I think a whole pelvis appearing and sitting down on the toilet is somewhat less funny but ymmv
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