Posted on 08/14/2018 5:37:49 PM PDT by davikkm
I know what you’re thinking: there’s a subway in LA? Joke aside, for our younger readers, Total Recall is science fiction movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. The movie is based on a dystopian short-story (“We Can Remember It For You Wholesale”) written by one of the best science fiction authors in the world, Philip K. Dick respectively. Here’s the scene I am hinting at in the title:
The movie was made almost 30 years ago, in 1990, and what do you know: Los Angeles is now preparing to become the first city in the United States to install subway body scanners, just as Total Recall predicted three decades ago. According to city officials on Tuesday, LA’s new body scanning system is aimed at screening passengers for explosives and weapons; again, just like in the movie.
In the coming months, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority will deploy portable scanners, which are capable of performing full body screenings of passengers transiting LA’s subway system, i.e. as people walk through a station; it’s getting boring, I know, but this is, again, just like in the movie. These high-tech machines can scan approximately 2,000 passengers per hour if so required, and can detect suspicious objects on one’s person from thirty feet/nine meters. The body scanning gear will be acquired from a UK based company, Thruvision respectively. The good news is that these are not X-Ray based scanning machines , but they work by collecting the natural thermal energy that is emitted by all people. That technology would be from Predator, the movie from the eighties:
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What constitutes a suspicious object, especially in view of the recent 9th circuit court 2a related decision?
Where said scanners will turn off if they detect any indicators of diversity.
Ping
“thermal energy”
A lot of adolescent males are going to get the front of their pants searched because of this.
Gotta get on the train unarmed. Bad ju-ju.
“Get ready for a big surprise!”
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