I picture beavis and butthead getting a hold of this
Posted on 03/09/2008 4:33:28 PM PDT by xtinct
A CAMERA that can see through people’s clothing at distances of up to 80ft has been developed to help detect weapons, drugs and explosives.
The camera could be deployed in railway stations, shopping centres and other public spaces.
Although it can see objects under clothes, its designers say the images do not show anatomical details. However, it is likely to increase fears that Britain has become a surveillance society.
The new technology, known as the T5000 system, has attracted interest from police forces, train companies and airport operators as well as government agencies.
It has been developed by ThruVision, an Oxfordshire-based company spun out from the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, one of the government’s leading physics research centres.
It was designed for use in spacecraft and astronomy but researchers soon realised that cameras capable of seeing through clouds of cosmic dust could also see through clothing. This week the camera will be displayed at the Home Office scientific development branch’s annual exhibition, Britain’s premier showcase for security equipment, to be held on an RAF airbase in Buckinghamshire.
ThruVision already offers a smaller system designed for office foyers that can scan through clothing at a range of 30ft-40ft.
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I picture beavis and butthead getting a hold of this
baby got back
Lost in all this idiocy (albeit very funny posts) is the simple fact that the Socialist Brits “blew it”, destroyed their country by allowing it to be invaded by millions of Muslims from Africa and the Middle East. NOW, because they allowed this senseless invasion (caused by GREED just as the Invasion here from Mexico was based on greedy big biusiness donors to the pols in charge), NOW they want to place cameras everywhere!! Why not, instead, DEPORT all aliens with suspicious backgrounds, be they legal or illegal? And THAT goes to to heart of the problem—liberalism. They are simply afraid of doing the right thing, of protecting themselves. They are LEMMINGS, the Brits!! And it is a sad, crying shame. We across the Lake are also lemmings in part because we fear the ACLU and La Raza more than we do doing what is right by U.S. citizens and U.S. law.
Might not be a woman beneath that head to toe rag they wear! That is why they will be outraged!
Protects Superman’s package from Kryptonite.
"LOOK!...Rosie's been smugglin illegals for years!"
Well, big, old sport, I've done you a good turn... 
I keep getting e-mails in my Bulk Folder from an Talley A. Wacker titled "Add up to 4 inches to yours manhood" and thinking of you, I've forwarded it to you.
Like a complete Sears Craftsman ratchet set... 
I come from the factory with many different sized snap on attachments to give that extra thousand feet of stropping.
And to get back to the subject of this thread... 
I also come equipped with x-ray vision.
And sometime when Helen Thomas walks by, I see... 
more than I should!
That's so 90s.
In today's vernacular, it's known as "junk in the trunk".
;-)
Sometimes ignorance truly is bliss.
I agree. But just watch them go postal over it. Any reason to right, that’s their motto.
That’s too much detail for me... dang.
I did not realize you had your own company.
I don’t know where you live; but in the airports I have visited; having to look at 80% of the specimens waiting in line would ruin my lunch.
Sure, there are few very attractive members of the opposite sex in and about the airport - but how many people like me do you have to look at, before you see one of those?
Besides, the way the young attractive women dress today, you aren’t going to see anything with this machine, that isn’t freely shown to the population at large. Not that I’m complaining, but if one looks closely enough at the pockets of these young ladies, you can count the change they are carrying.
Eating while posting. Sorry
They're screwed!!!!
I agree. It will be very interesting when or if the Brits put these cameras in their airports.
You mean it will just show rolls of fat?
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