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Why thank you Amit for giving everyone one! I would most definitely live up my superheroic ambition if I got an invisibility cloak. But reasons why it won’t work.

Firstly, I would try and make sure it is put someplace where I know it will always be. Imagine the do-gooding Invisible Man scrambling for his cloak in his cupboard because he can’t see it (but obviously) even as goons beat up an innocent outside his door.

And then I would wish myself good luck before trying to cross the road. Invisibility will work in limited spaces where there are not many people or moving bodies to bump into. That’s practically nowhere. Unless you use it only where there aren’t many people. But then… no point.

Also, heavens help you if you go to sleep or fall unconscious while still wrapped in it.

Boy, am I going to be one pessimistic superhero! 

Posted on Sunday, May 28th, 2006 at 10:59 am and filed under theory.

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