TK -

I thank you for your time spent researching and helping me learn of IPU (Invisible Pink Unicorns). Although I never saw one in person, I am happy to blindly give donations without ever having anything but empty promises. I do have a few questions.

- Do you first create a pink unicorn and turn it invisible or do you make an invisible unicorn pink?
- On the model I am working with I notice the horn growth to be 2 cm per week, is this what you found in your findings?
- I have thought many times before I had a successful model and could never see it. For your sprinkler/flour test did you use a tractor sprinkler, I'm not able to afford a tractor sprinkler due to the donations given to you...

I have built a KHIPU (Knee High IPU) and a MLPIPU(My Little Pony IPU) and would appreciate it if your validation team would look at these as well when they come next week...or the week after that...or the week after that...

TK I encourage you to 'ignore' unbelievers, for they will not feast at the table 'with' us.

Know you are the hero the world deserves, but not the one it needs right now.

- Correcaminos

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Quote from: correcaminos on October 23, 2012, 04:03:09 PM

I have built a KHIPU (Knee High IPU) and a MLPIPU(My Little Pony IPU) and would appreciate it if your validation team would look at these as well when they come next week...or the week after that...or the week after that...

Correcaminos, it looks like you're a lot farther along on the Replication Challenge than I am.  Maybe you could give me some advice.  I'm trying to build a tabletop IPU on my patio table.  I'm using a rocking horse and trying to make a horn out of a tennis-ball can, attached with duct tape.  But I'm having a little trouble with invisibility.  Maybe I used the wrong shade of pink spray paint.  Will more layers help, maybe three?  I know I'm close, I just can't quite get there.

I know I can turn this rocking horse into a live unicorn, despite everything the "experts" know about biology.  They could help us, if they would just quit being negative and get their hands furry!

Quote from: DiscerningDave on October 23, 2012, 04:32:56 PM
Correcaminos, it looks like you're a lot farther along on the Replication Challenge than I am.  Maybe you could give me some advice.  I'm trying to build a tabletop IPU on my patio table.  I'm using a rocking horse and trying to make a horn out of a tennis-ball can, attached with duct tape.  But I'm having a little trouble with invisibility.  Maybe I used the wrong shade of pink spray paint.  Will more layers help, maybe three?  I know I'm close, I just can't quite get there.

I know I can turn this rocking horse into a live unicorn, despite everything the "experts" know about biology.  They could help us, if they would just quit being negative and get their hands furry!

Well I will have to admit I noticed TK was so far along on his, and did not want to be 'left behind' so I first created a time machine to travel back and catch up to TKs progress. Unfortunately the first time machine I built looked like a couple of hot water heaters with pipe, etc mangled around it.

Anywhoo, I think the problem, and not really a problem at all: each solution in it's own time, is that when adhering the can, ensure that the rocking horse is laying on it's side preferably head (crown) facing the north with snout facing west. With the horse on it's side the duct tape can take advantage of lateral gravity. On some models it may even require 2 layer and 3 layer adhesion.

For invisibility you must wear a different hat, I will explain the many hats one must wear later (*sidenote - wearing to many hats has been known to neck cramping. Please talk to your physician before wearing as many hats as I).

Congratulations on coming this far, we are doing where all before us have failed, and this is not of our own doing...o wait nope it is all us! (and consequently anyone who actually successfully creates an invisible pink unicorn that I can ride their coattails).

Stay furry my friend.

- Correcaminos

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Apparently there is no "principle" as to how this works, just some as yet not fully defined combination of 'effects' that defies conventional analysis.

I tried simulating this in SIMIPU  (http://www.simipu.com) but as expected it does not show any possibility of IPU production.

This is because the equations used to do the simulations have their basis in reality principles. Because of this you won't be able to discern how this works by using any of the available equine/unicorn simulation softwares.

I thank you all for your interest, and I am happy to report that, even though some saddles and tack got left on the loading dock, the IPU project is coming along nicely, and we are about to start on Invisible Blue and Invisible Orange unicorns as well as the original Pink.

I see that there are some concerns about scaling. I assure you that the IPU effect is completely scalable.... after all, some of our replicators have been tasked with coming up with a Table Top Corral of miniature IPUs, (we call them IPU Pony's) and we've even sent out some reward money for preliminary steps in that direction. So don't worry, I have a simple, three-Unicorn corral that is clearly invisible, all by itself, so I'm sure that one of our team members will be successful soon.

We have noticed, though, that tall skinny Unicorns are more invisible -- and pinker -- than short, fat ones.