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Originally Posted by dgruss23
I remember now ... Thrawn put cloaked asteroids in orbit around Coruscant in the final book of the trilogy. Of course one has to wonder how many of those things you would actually need in order to have a real serious threat to incoming/outgoing ships.
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Quite a few for serious threats to the ships, but not that many if you just want to dispupt shipping: who's gonna want to fly if there's a reasponable chance of getting hit? Also don't need al that many--no one can confirm the numbers (they
are cloaked) of asteroids so you just creat the perception of danger....
The Vong are porbable the most alien of the Star Wars Critters--the rest have been homogenized to some degree through the Galactic Empire. I'm sure reality will be much stranger to us than any Science Fiction story...
As for the feasibilty of cloaking devices: depends on how it's done. It can be argued that stealth technology is a "crude" (from a Science Fiction perspective) form of cloaking from specific wavelengths and obsevation meathods. Anything more advanced...I don't know....
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Astromony content/question): Could we use cloaking technology (if can be developed) "backwards" to creat really big "cheap" telescopes for different wavelengths? How could we do this, some sort of magnetic feild/other force feild?