we know everything about you..

I'm I the only person that can see a fundemental problem with this statement....

The machine is ten million times faster—and one million times more sensitive—than any currently available system. That means that it can be used systematically on everyone passing through airport security, not just suspect or randomly sampled people.
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Whilst it mat be 10 million times faster in terms of the speed it can communicate, it must be 10 million times slower to scan a whole person. Current body scans do your whole body in on go, how long would it take for a laser beam to have to scan every inch of your body.

How many molecules can it scan in ten seconds for example, then how many molecules are there in your average crowd at an airport?
 
How can a lazer beam know my name is Jeff? Is it the Jeff molecules i exude when i fart?

I couldn't give a **** tbh. how is it against my civil liberties to know i had toast for breakfast and im quite anxious at boarding this aeroplane.

surely if it finds people covered in semtex particles thats a good indicator that they are not your average guy.
 
The implications of this outside security has to be pretty huge ie if A&E could profile you as you walked through the door triage times could be cut massively.

Personally if it means I don't have to be porno scanned when travelling through the US, or can start taking food and drinks through airport security I'd be happy to be lazered....
 
realBabelfish said:
<facepalm>
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A cliche response to a cliche statement, for the only reason is that he has a point and you have nothing better to say.
But yeah, if real it's scanning for dubious materials, that's it, unless it's harmful.

Topic is also stupid, as well as some people's understanding of what it apparently does, not in this thread specifically.
Sometimes I'm bemused by what people complain about in the effort of safety.
 
jsmoke said:
Surely they would have such a machine for IEDs in that case?
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it sounds like currently it takes a couple of seconds per scan, which would make it so slow to sweep an area with its prohibitively slow.

If they've drastically reduced the time per scan as they suggest in the article then yes, it would make a perfect tool for scanning for IEDs along a road or whatever.

It could easily sweep mine fields or scan incoming mail for explosives / narcotics - the uses are nearly endless, so while its use against the public could be seen as a gross invasion of privacy (albeit a very similar, but less intrusive version of what they do now in airport security) its other uses are potentially lifesaving.

what would be interesting / dodgy is profiling people for commercial gains for example. If they stuck one at the door of Sainsburys for example they could target offers to specific shoppers... The cost in the near term is pretty prohibitive, but long term it could be hugely powerful system...
 
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Sorry, But I don't believe anything claimed in that article one bit.

I don't believe the technology exist to do anything that is claimed, in the speed it claimed to do it - or the distance.
 
Joshct said:
One day they'll be able to read thoughts. I'll have a field day.
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I remember watching this anime thing as a kid where to combat this mind-reading enemy, this guy stuck his face in some boobs and ran at her all horny so she could only see boobs when she read his mind. That's what I'll do when that day comes.
 
I fail to see how a laser based system could perform any real analysis of molecular make-up when operating in an environment that isn't under high-vacuum.

How do they propose getting accurate results when there will be so many chemicals / gases / compounds even before the beam focal point.

What rubbish. Similar technologies have been around for years - Emission spectrums can't just be "read" from afar. There is no easy way to just throw a laser beam 50m for it to give a breakdown of the chemical structure of what it hits (at atmosphere pressures - in dirty environments)

It's just sales jargon - and whoever believes it can do what it claims to be able to do - deserves to waste all the money they will throw at it.
 
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balls!
this is stupid - no such spectroscopic method is capable of the things they are claiming.
if it did why would anybody need gcms, hplc, ir/uv/ramen/fluorescence spectroscopy, nmr, etc etc...
scientific nonsense.
 
I hope this new system pumps me full of radiation too. I need my unnecessary dose as often as possible. On the upside, if this means we can fire all the TSA monkeys, carry water, and wear our shoes, then I am totally for it being used in airports.
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Made me chuckle.
 
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