I like silly syfy movies, but the description says something about a 1940's experiment to make warships invisible.. really? Warships move super slow, and they are stuck in the water making them a poor choice for covert ops. Most of their opponents (subs and other warships) would have sonar and not care if warship is invisible.
Is it supposed to be so bad it's good? Or just a bad plot synopsis?
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The real experiment was an attempt to make ships invisible to radar, so planes and other surface ships couldn't target them, and to hide them from ground radar on approach to enemy occupied land.
shareThis was a genuine experiment carried out by the US Navy in 1943.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Experiment
It would be fascinating to read the edition of Morris K. Jessup's 'The Case for the UFO' which was annotated by Carl Allen (or Carlos Allende).
The USS Eldrige was the subject of an experiment (repudedly using Einstein's Unified Field Theory) to render the ship invisible to radar. There are are claims that the ship actually disappeared, reappearing briefly at the Naval base in Norfolk Virginia, before returning to the site of the experiment. Brief scenes in the 1984 movie of seamen embedded in the ship's hull were based on claims of the side effects after the experiment.
Whatever the truth is, it would be interesting to see a movie based on what has been claimed to have happened. It could be an interesting movie.
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Well the Philadelphia Experiment is a real-life incident or at least a real-life hoax which has been around since the '40s.
The purpose, according to various myth & legend, was to make a naval ship invisible to radar/sonar or at least to degauss it making it undetectable to magnetic mines in the water. This way it wouldn't be as easy a target. Other accounts say the purpose was to make it invisible to the naked eye but that doesn't seem likely. The legend around the experiment is that the Eldridge vanished from the harbor it was in; it wasn't invisible according to this account, it actually teleported across the country to another harbor and then came back a few minutes later. Of course this account cannot be substantiated and the government says there was never an experiment of any kind.
The 1984 movie took it a step further suggesting that the Eldridge not only teleported through space but also travelled through time into the future. Now we have the 2012 remake which is based on this fiction.
Instead of "based on real events" the trailer should have said "loosely based on the movie which was loosely based on the urban legend."