Date: 14/12/2020 05:10:10
From: transition
ID: 1664674
Subject: substantially invisible

how good is invisibility?

what if there is a secret war on invisibility by (some) humans, forces that want to eliminate it, so you can’t see and understand invisibility is everywhere, variously necessary to everything that exists, even essential to what you do and think

consider it’s the work of the devil for a moment, to render you blind to the invisible

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Date: 14/12/2020 09:39:58
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1664741
Subject: re: substantially invisible

transition said:


how good is invisibility?

what if there is a secret war on invisibility by (some) humans, forces that want to eliminate it, so you can’t see and understand invisibility is everywhere, variously necessary to everything that exists, even essential to what you do and think

consider it’s the work of the devil for a moment, to render you blind to the invisible

At least four different issues here.

Part 1. Black invisibility.
> how good is invisibility?
Vantablack absorbs up to 99.965% of visible light, and there is a black paint that is even blacker. Provided an object does not occult a light source, that provides perfect invisibility. Applications include: spy satellites, spy planes, sea surface at night, middle of the forest at night, sub-sea.

Part 2. Camouflage.
> what if there is a secret war on invisibility by (some) humans, forces that want to eliminate it
etc.

Part 3. Someone else’s problem. “The zombie”.
> invisibility is everywhere, variously necessary to everything that exists, even essential to what you do and think
etc.

Part 4. Investigative journalism vs corruption.
> consider it’s the work of the devil for a moment, to render you blind to the invisible
etc.

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Date: 14/12/2020 21:43:04
From: transition
ID: 1665176
Subject: re: substantially invisible

I get around everyday, gravity and air are invisible, same can be said of electromagnetic radiation

there’s the microscopic world that is mostly invisible to me (naked eye), extending to atoms, electrons, protons neutrons, and all those other things, whatever, exotic particles too

so a lot of this world is invisible, a lot of the universe too

most of other life is not visible to me, most of other life on the earth is not visible to whatever example, say larry, or pick a random wild animal, even an imaginary one to conceptualize it

and it’s about this point in my scribbles I start to toy with the difference between not visible and invisible, and where they overlap, so watch out, I might try to trick you

there are peoples inner mental worlds that are not visible, perhaps even invisible

and what of the production of say movies, do the people that put movies together make the work that goes into them invisible

so, i’m thinking perhaps it’s wrong-headed to want too much to be apparent, to be visible, I mean that doesn’t seem to represent the essence of the world in any way at all

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