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NASA to Start Helping Detectives

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the right-hand-meet-left-hand dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "With a new photographic laser device developed to check damages on the Space Shuttle, NASA is going to help the FBI to investigate crime scenes. The Laser Scaling and Measurement Device for Photographic Images (LSMDPI) was designed to provide a non-intrusive means of adding a scale to a photograph, which is very useful when looking at an object in space when there is no size reference. But the LSMDPI, which weighs only a half-pound and can be attached directly to a camera's tripod, will also be used on Earth in crime and accident scene investigations. It also could be used for oil and chemical tank monitoring or aerial photography."

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  1. NSA to start helping detectives? by muellerr1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    DUPE! Bush ordered the NSA to help out with domestic law enforcement over two years ago.

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  2. Re:There is no place to hide... by Cheapy · · Score: 2, Funny

    What if your behind the satellite? Huh huh?

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  3. Great. "CSI: Low Earth Orbit" by ScentCone · · Score: 2, Funny

    Put a fork in it. That franchise is done already.

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  4. matter of scale by revery · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Laser Scaling and Measurement Device for Photographic Images (LSMDPI) was designed to provide a non-intrusive means of adding a scale to a photograph, which is very useful when looking at an object in space when there is no size reference.

    I can just see the new spam now:

    Want your equipment to look bigger from space?

    try SeeAlice today...

  5. Except... by KylePflug · · Score: 2, Funny

    indoors.