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The Pentagon has a laser that can identify people from a distance—by their heartbeat
MIT Review ^ | 6/27/19 | David Hambling

Posted on 06/28/2019 3:48:58 AM PDT by 3161J410

The Jetson prototype can pick up on a unique cardiac signature from 200 meters away, even through clothes. Everyone’s heart is different. Like the iris or fingerprint, our unique cardiac signature can be used as a way to tell us apart. Crucially, it can be done from a distance.

It’s that last point that has intrigued US Special Forces. Other long-range biometric techniques include gait analysis, which identifies someone by the way he or she walks. This method was supposedly used to identify an infamous ISIS terrorist before a drone strike. But gaits, like faces, are not necessarily distinctive. An individual’s cardiac signature is unique, though, and unlike faces or gait, it remains constant and cannot be altered or disguised.

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1 posted on 06/28/2019 3:48:58 AM PDT by 3161J410
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To: 3161J410

You can smell those ragheads coming.


2 posted on 06/28/2019 4:09:35 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: 3161J410

So, terrorists if you don’t want to get capped take a buttload of cocaine.

CC


3 posted on 06/28/2019 4:10:16 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV)
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I go to think my heartbeat is on record


4 posted on 06/28/2019 4:19:52 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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I assume that those marvelous lasers have multiple uses from detecting a heart beat to being tuned to screw up a heart beat and take out the heart.


5 posted on 06/28/2019 4:20:21 AM PDT by iontheball
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I wonder if they used lasers to detect heart beats on the starship Enterprise.


6 posted on 06/28/2019 4:31:57 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Facts are racist.)
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This reminded me of breitbart and how it was floated that someone hacked his Pace maker. I’m beginning to think its possible.


7 posted on 06/28/2019 4:32:09 AM PDT by Rappini (Compromise has its place. It's called second.)
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So the military finally invented the device from Clancy’s Rainbow Six! The guy was as prescient as Roddenberry at seeing future inventions.


8 posted on 06/28/2019 4:32:18 AM PDT by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business)
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"..Clancy’s Rainbow Six!.."

Ping to Raibow Six! Stil playing 2's Terrorist Hunt after all these years. Hehehe.

Sometimes it's cheaper to be a geezer gamer.. d;^)

9 posted on 06/28/2019 4:45:20 AM PDT by CopperTop (Outside the wire it's just us chickens. Dig?)
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To: iontheball

You beat me to it. I agree completely. This technology will get into the wrong hands, if it hasn’t already.


10 posted on 06/28/2019 5:04:46 AM PDT by dsat4life (Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty . . . who was, who is, and is to come!! Amen!)
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Nope. Utter bs.


11 posted on 06/28/2019 5:11:19 AM PDT by MarMema (breeding tauntauns in northern Michigan - soon to be for sale!)
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To: Celtic Conservative

So, terrorists if you don’t want to get capped take a buttload of cocaine.

As a long time HRV training user, I have some doubts about your plan?
Heart Rate Variability vs. Heart Rate
https://hrvcourse.com/heart-rate-variability-vs-heart-rate/

A bit more in a related thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3760025/posts


12 posted on 06/28/2019 6:09:59 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: iontheball
I assume that those marvelous lasers have multiple uses from detecting a heart beat to being tuned to screw up a heart beat and take out the heart.

That's an excellent idea. A high altitude drone laser that can burn an enemy's retinas so they are functionally blind for about 3 months would be extremely useful too and easier. It's sometimes better to incapacitate enemy fighters because they then become a burden. It probably wouldn't be acceptable to the world to cause mass permanent blindness.

13 posted on 06/28/2019 7:38:07 AM PDT by Reeses (A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
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Ah, well it was just a thought. Hoped they’d take too much and stroke out.

CC


14 posted on 06/28/2019 8:03:18 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV)
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