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  • Inhabitat & Invisibility Cloaks May Shield Buildings From Earthquakes

    From the page: "We all know that invisibility cloaks can protect Harry Potter from Filch and his cat Mrs. Norris, but now physicists in France and the UK say they may be used to hide buildings from the devastating effects of earthquakes as well. "

    Reviewed by StumbleShredder Jun 30, 10:36am ( 9 reviews ) inhabitat.com

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  • Rated by fafnir665 on Jul 31, 11:40am

    Garbage writing.
  • Rated by WordsnCollision on Jul 05, 5:42am

    Thanks to Harry Potter city buildings will never totter.
  • Rated by michael1203 on Jul 02, 7:57pm

    Really? That's quite an interesting theory about invisibility cloaks.
  • Rated by fastfastlane on Jun 30, 3:16pm

    "Stefan Enoch and his team at the Fresnel Institute in Marseilles, France have been studying other applications for the physics behind invisibility cloaks. The result of their research is an "earthquake cloak" that could render objects "invisible" to shocks, storm waves or tsunamis."
  • Rated by gearcrave on Jun 30, 1:48pm

    I'll take one for myself, please
  • Rated by QuentinsOnTheWay on Jun 30, 1:31pm

    as one of those people obsessed/terrified of earthquakes, this is great news
  • Rated by chuckjenkins on Jun 30, 12:59pm

    This sounds like dark magic to me.
  • Rated by StumbleShredder on Jun 30, 10:36am

    From the page: "We all know that invisibility cloaks can protect Harry Potter from Filch and his cat Mrs. Norris, but now physicists in France and the UK say they may be used to hide buildings from the devastating effects of earthquakes as well. "
  • Rated by karim17 on Jun 30, 9:13am

    Stefan Enoch and his team at the Fresnel Institute in Marseilles, France have been studying other applications for the physics behind invisibility cloaks. The result of their research is an "earthquake cloak" that could render objects "invisible" to shocks, storm waves or tsunamis.