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Explosives Detection Breakthrough Via Green Laser

Posted by timothy on from the stuff-that-blows-up dept.

retiarius writes "In keeping with celebrating the USA's National Chemistry Week (aside from watching the hitcount for Tom Lehrer's very chemical music video at CD Baby), I'm duly impressed by an amazingly simple new way to detect explosives at a distance -- just use a store-bought presentation green laser pointer and some dimestore infrared night vision glasses! The (alas, patentable) details are in this week's EE Times."

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  1. Re:False positives & meat by ConceptJunkie · · Score: 3, Funny

    What's worse is if they pull you out of the line because of a false positive, and then bring out those big, nasty bomb-sniffing dogs and YOU smell like MEAT.

    Yikes!

    Now I can't take bacon on planes. Oh well, it's for security.

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