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To: plushaye

"I wonder if rescuers are using/can use police and army helicopters using infra-red radar, the type that are used to pick out the heat from human beings? Our police helicopters use them to pick up the image of thieves hiding in bushes etc. I wonder if this can show if people are alive in attics?? Does anybody know if this would work through metal roofs?"

Heard a bit on CNN about the CIA (?) spy Sats. And yes they can pick up heat signatures.
But the person (a lady) didn't want to give too much info on it.


6,122 posted on 09/04/2005 8:51:03 AM PDT by Fast5 (That Just Ain't Rite.)
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To: Fast5

Excellent. Hope whatever technology they use (spy or not-spy) will get them quicker to those trapped in attics.


6,125 posted on 09/04/2005 8:53:39 AM PDT by plushaye (President Bush: W-2-4-4!! God Bless him and his administration.)
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To: Fast5

It would take a while to reposition a KH-11/12 to hover over the US from where they currently are orbiting. And then we get into legal questions about the CIA operating in America, etc., etc.

Those restrictions were put in place by, surprise, the Dems.


6,166 posted on 09/04/2005 9:46:26 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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