Yeah, if it's not a surprise thing, but something that the inhabitants of the 'verse knew existed, maybe less chance of being freaked out. Guess it's all in how it's used.
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Ailleann - Apr 21, 2009 11:15:02 am PDT #1456 of 6690
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Gudanov - Apr 21, 2009 11:50:23 am PDT #1457 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
It would be as much a surprise thing for people in that world as in the real world. Sort of like we know incredible things can be done with technology but had no idea it could this. Actually, that's pretty much an exact corollary. Technology in this setting is powered with magic and it comes with a pretty dramatic price that hardly anyone knows about and those that do try to deny it.
Toddson - Apr 21, 2009 11:51:40 am PDT #1458 of 6690
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Gud, if it blocks out light, would it also block out everything else? Kind of a sensory-deprivation area? (Also - air? would they start feeling like they were suffocating because they were?)
Gudanov - Apr 21, 2009 12:02:04 pm PDT #1459 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
As I figured it there would be no light and sound from the outside would be greatly muffled and distorted, but you'd still get smell and wind albeit reduced. Also I was figuring one could only use dim illumination inside because every bit of light get absorbed and turned into heat.
Laga - Apr 21, 2009 12:08:35 pm PDT #1460 of 6690
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OK yeah that would freak me right the heck out. I might start running in some random direction.
Gudanov - Apr 21, 2009 12:35:48 pm PDT #1461 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
Cool, it sounds like I'm not totally off base in have a couple freak outs.
While driving to work, I just started thinking what it would mean to have something make an area invisible, realized that it would likely make this weird place where no light comes in, then thought maybe the first time it is used all the character reactions could be used to establish some stuff about the characters.
Gudanov - Apr 21, 2009 12:36:22 pm PDT #1462 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
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Connie Neil - Apr 21, 2009 2:22:39 pm PDT #1463 of 6690
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dcp - Apr 21, 2009 2:39:45 pm PDT #1464 of 6690
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Gudanov, it wasn't invisible from the outside, but what you described reminds me of the scenes inside the stasis field in Haldeman's Forever War.
Burrell - Apr 21, 2009 6:23:22 pm PDT #1465 of 6690
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One magical device creates a dome that renders everything inside invisible from the outside. Conversely, if you are inside it, all light from the outside is blocked
That sounds a lot like what an actual invisibility field would be like. If, you know, they were able to create one on something larger than the nanoscale.