Thu Feb 26, 2004 3:53 pm by Esquilax
For those who don't know what this is about, here's a brief synopsis. This is what the whole thing was about, as I understand it; The goal of "Project Rainbow" as it was known, was to make that ship invisible to enemy detection. I'm not sure whether the goal was to protect the ship from torpedoes, or to become invisible. It is theorised that the mechanism involved was the generation of an incredibly intense magnetic field around the ship which was supposed to create a shimmery "mirage"-like effect. They say that the ship actually vanished, and then returned. I remember reading that some people said that it was an investigation into how Einstein's Unified Field Theory might be used in practical naval terms. There are stories about "green fog" that surrounded the ship and then disappeared along with the vessel, and that sort of thing.
It's probably all scuttlebutt, but one of the "facts" that we do have is that USS Eldrigre existed, as the Keel was laid on Ferbuary 1943, the ship was built in New Jersey.
