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New Homeland Security Laser Scanner Reads People At Molecular Level
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| 7/11/12
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Posted on 07/11/2012 7:13:07 PM PDT by Nachum
WASHINGTON (CBSDC) The Department of Homeland Security will soon be using a laser at airports that can detect everything about you from over 160-feet away.
Gizmodo reports a scanner that could read people at the molecular level has been invented. This laser-based scanner which can be used 164-feet away could read everything from a persons adrenaline levels, to traces of gun powder on a persons clothes, to illegal substances and it can all be done without a physical search. It also could be used on multiple people at a time, eliminating random searches at airports.
The laser-based scanner is expected to be used in airports as soon as 2013, Gizmodo reports.
The scanner is called the Picosecond Programmable Laser. The device works by blasting its target with lasers which vibrate molecules that are then read by the machine that determine what substances a person has been exposed to. This could be Semtex explosives to the bacon and egg sandwich they had for breakfast that morning.
(Excerpt) Read more at washington.cbslocal.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: homeland; laser; scanner; security
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Oh boy.
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posted on
07/11/2012 7:13:20 PM PDT
by
Nachum
To: Nachum
Good technology. But why are terrorists exempt again.
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posted on
07/11/2012 7:15:08 PM PDT
by
Diogenesis
("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. " Pres. Ronald Reagan)
To: Nachum; KevinDavis
More Philip K Dick predictions coming true.
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posted on
07/11/2012 7:21:25 PM PDT
by
mnehring
To: Nachum
Initial testing did find some small problems.
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posted on
07/11/2012 7:22:46 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Roger Taney? Not a bad Chief Justice. John Roberts? A really awful Chief Justice.)
To: Nachum
how would this be any good at finding a knife in my pocket?
does it penetrate ??
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posted on
07/11/2012 7:25:35 PM PDT
by
sten
(fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
To: Nachum
'The device works by blasting its target with lasers which vibrate molecules'
One has the option of not going thru the TSA porno scanners, now they are gonna blast everyone with 'lasers'.
Shooting lasers into someone would still require permission.
I cannot try to microwave the general public and expect a form of arrest.
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posted on
07/11/2012 7:27:44 PM PDT
by
Theoria
(Rush Limbaugh: Ron Paul sounds like an Islamic terrorist)
To: Theoria
expect to see this at a road side drunk driving lane in a state near you, soon.
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posted on
07/11/2012 7:55:41 PM PDT
by
Michigan Bowhunter
(Michelle Obama slept with her husband after he made it with Larry Sinclair.)
To: Nachum
Sounds like another company John Kerry has stock in.
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posted on
07/11/2012 7:58:04 PM PDT
by
GreatRoad
(O < 0)
To: Nachum
Of course they’ll use it on American civilians instead of trying it in Afghanistan to look for suicide bombers or IED planters.
THAT WOULD BE AGAINST THE RULES OF ENGAGEMENT. Yeah, I’m yelling.
To: Nachum
If it can detect Semtex molecules it can also find cancer cells. There’s good here too. What Americans needs is to refuse to accept the Police State.
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posted on
07/11/2012 8:14:11 PM PDT
by
Poison Pill
(Take your silver lining and SHOVE IT!)
To: Nachum; Marine_Uncle; NormsRevenge; SunkenCiv; blam
Sounds like an overhyped story....Don't MRI's work that way....and you have to move thru a tube to be scanned.....
Have they just built a super duper MRI unit?
Medical field should be a market.
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posted on
07/11/2012 8:24:46 PM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?)
To: Nachum
Great. Advanced space technology in the hands of Neanderthals. This should work out well.
To: Nachum
"Looks like they're drunk with power, Jim."
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posted on
07/11/2012 8:29:12 PM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(Ayn Rand: "In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win")
To: Iron Munro
Isn’t the CIA and DARPA some 20 years ahead of what is made public. Methinks this has been used already, without consent of course. I commented on this app. March 20 of this year.
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posted on
07/11/2012 8:34:57 PM PDT
by
quickquiver
(No, means N O.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
RE: "Have they just built a super duper MRI unit?"
No Ernest. Entirely in every way from a physics stand point different.
MRI works on the principle of pumping very selective high energy magnetic radiation through a body which "excite the protons within say a person's body within a small area, which then change energy levels (obviously with the electron shells playing into the process) which then radiate outward and are picked up by the MRI sensors and feed into very complex computer's to run their algorithms, and finally plot out on a display or other recording device, slice by slice as the MRI scans take place.
The process being described here, regarding the laser, is where an actual laser beam interacts with molecules on say one's skin, and then a specialized spectroscope (I'm clueless as of yet exactly what type would be incorporated, perhaps an array of say IR, and UV spectroscopy units, would then read sample molecules from the air, and analyze them. Just like you would pump a sample in a spectroscopic unit via. a hypodermic needle.
Short answer. To totally different types of diagnostic tools using totally different type of electronics and sensors.
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posted on
07/11/2012 8:51:09 PM PDT
by
Marine_Uncle
(Honor must be earned.)
To: Nachum
DEAR DHS: I fart in your general direction. Put that in your f’n laser!
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posted on
07/11/2012 8:54:27 PM PDT
by
beethovenfan
(If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
To: Nachum
I foresee a new sort of civil disobedience: sprinkling your clothes with trace amounts of hundreds of random chemicals. Kind of like all the kids in a high school stopping at the coffee shop for poppy seed bagels and poppy seed cake on the way to school when drug tests are announced: overload the system with false positives.
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posted on
07/11/2012 9:17:29 PM PDT
by
The_Reader_David
(And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
To: beethovenfan
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posted on
07/11/2012 9:17:59 PM PDT
by
lightman
(Adjutorium nostrum (+) in nomine Domini--nevertheless, Vote Santorum!)
To: Marine_Uncle
Sounds like it could hurt.
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posted on
07/11/2012 9:23:41 PM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?)
To: Nachum
Somewhere in this news story is a futuristic dystopian novel just waiting to be written.
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