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c/asklemmy · by TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works · 275d

Which invisibility related power would you rather?

  1. You can turn fully invisible at will, photons pass right through you until you choose for them not to, but you also cannot see while invisible

  2. At any time, you can camouflage yourself with your surroundings. It takes 10 seconds to complete the camouflage, and in that time, or if you move, or if your background changes, you are visible. You can see. You can decamouflage at will too, which also takes 10 seconds.

In both cases, it is just your body which is affected, not anything you are wearing. Piercings or medical stick ons count as part of your body for these purposes.

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15 Comments

Sanctus@anarchist.nexus · 35 pts · 275d

Both of these kinda suck ass.

moonlight@fedia.io · 16 pts · 275d (1 reply)

I choose 1 and either learn echolocation, or get a fancy implant that does it for me.

Although if 1 is instantaneous and you have perfect control of the power, you could probably avoid others seeing you by flickering really fast. I bet there's an optimal pulse width and frequency where you would be effectively invisible to people while still being able to see enough. A high speed camera would still catch you though.

bizarroland@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 275d

Do some training so that you could flicker at exactly 60 frames a second, and most cameras, assuming that you caught the right 60th of a second, would not even see you.

You also might be able to time with the saccadic rhythm of the eyes and make yourself invisible to a single viewer while still retaining your vision thanks to persistence of vision.

And, assuming you knew you had to walk in a straight line or something, you could just go invisible, walk straight forward to your destination, and then turn visible again.

Speiser0@feddit.org · 14 pts · 275d (1 reply)

In case 1, what will happen to the photons that my body emits, i.e. heat radiation?

TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 274d

You stop emitting photons while invisible. This does not have any unpleasant aide effects.

superduperpirate@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 275d

Option 2 so i can at least see

Aatube@kbin.melroy.org · 6 pts · 275d

1. I think it’s good to occasionally be rid of visual stimuli

Nemo@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 275d

Number one, easy, my vision is already terrible, it's barely a price.

Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 275d

1 is useful.

NegentropicBoy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 275d

So fully invisible still takes a long time to achieve as you need to shed clothing.

In which case we are comparing sight vs not moving?

DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 275d

Version 1 is too "irl" lol

Version 2 sounds like just a shitty videogame mechanic that the devs are gonna nerf in the next update becuase people complaining about it being "Too OP"

ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 274d

If other people don’t know about it I can just turn invisible after they catch me and they’ll assume they were having a stroke

KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 275d

So the second one is like the things some squids do? Yes. That one please. I always wanted to blend into the background and spook my friends >:D Endless mischief!

jordanlund@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 275d

https://youtu.be/xlQGke2haho#t=30s

sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 274d

1 is just 2 but better. Your're standing still anyway yk?