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New Explosive Detection Tech
cruci writes to tell us Yahoo! is reporting that a New Zealand company, Syft, has developed a new way to detect many different kinds of explosives (and their individual ingredients) in real time. Designed for what the company calls "photocopier simplicity", CEO Geoff Peck claims that the technology is ready to deploy immediately and is already deployed in some ports and hospitals. From the article: "The Voice100(TM) employs Selected Ion Flow Tube - Mass Spectrometry (SIFT-MS). While SIFT-MS has been in academic use for more than 20 years, Syft Technologies is the first company to offer a commercial instrument with the full discriminating analytical power of a laboratory-grade mass spectrometer."
How about this...
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Are you ready for it?
Stop invading countries for the wrong reasons!! Maybe then they'll stop thinking about blowing us all up!! Instead of motivating ourselves to find better technology to find explosives, how about motivating the "terrorists" into NOT killing all of us by actually working with them to resolve our differences instead of battling on, invading and taking over their land in the name of "Democracy and Freedom" (READ: power and money)?
Could it ever work? Would we ever try this tactic?
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.