X-Men’s Magneto isn’t the only who can shield magnetic fields.
What the fuck does this even mean? I won't get into whether or not Magneto should be labelled as part of the X-men (and technically, he WAS their headmaster for a while) but this is just stupid.
Spanish researchers have designed what they call the world's first "anti-magnet," a magnetic cloak that can act as a shield they envision helping the military and saving lives. For example, some types of mines in the ocean are set to detonate upon detection of magnetic fields from ships passing above them. Military ships could use an anti-magnet to stop their magnetic fields from tripping the mines.
They already do, it's called degaussing. It's been around for a while.
“It was a big explosion in science [in 2008] -- the possibility of cloaking electromagnetic waves,” professor Alvar Sanchez from from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in Spain and the lead author of the design told FoxNews.com. “So we came up with the idea of trying to make something similar with magnetic fields, and now we have come up with a device we hope can be constructed eventually that will have these properties of an anti-magnet.”
Wait, you haven't even built the damn thing? What is this story about, then? "Oh hey, I've got this theory about a thing that might do some stuff we already do some other way, but we haven't built it."
I'll bet almost anything this is being done to get funding from the Germans. We all know that they're the only ones with any money in Europe, so Queen Isabella, or whoever the fuck is in charge of Spain probably said, "What can we do to drum up sthome cash?" (Sthpaniardsth sthpeak with a listhp, you sthee...) Some science-like type says "Ooh, I know! Letsth sthee if we can sthcam the Germansth. They don't know anything about sthcience, right? To make it sthound legitimate, letsth get a newsth sthathion to cover it..."
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