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05-01-2015, 05:35 PM | #1 | |
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05-07-2015, 10:46 AM | #2 | |
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4 people rescued from burial alive in rubble in Nepal by relatively new technology developed by NASA and given to rescuers as a hand held device that can actually detect the location of heartbeats under a couple meters of rubble.
I think that's really cool. Quote:
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05-07-2015, 11:13 AM | #3 |
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That is really cool.
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05-07-2015, 11:22 AM | #4 |
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Yeah. There are a lot of applications where Big Brother would want to find beating hearts so it can stop them from beating.
I wonder about the capabilities of this technology now and in the future. This is handheld and only works in close proximity. But I wonder if it can someday be adapted to be aircraft mounted and if it will be able to see every beating heart for miles around, even under meters of cover. A targeting system's wet dream. It was developed by NASA for tracking spacecraft after all, so it works over great distances of empty space. |
05-07-2015, 08:57 PM | #5 |
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I wonder how hard it would be to make decoy hearts.
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05-07-2015, 09:57 PM | #6 |
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Not too hard but would let them know someone is trying to hide something.
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05-08-2015, 06:32 AM | #7 |
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05-08-2015, 08:09 AM | #8 |
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OK, you mean just to fuck with them?
Pulling the Dragon's tail for sport has always had a downside.
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05-08-2015, 08:45 AM | #9 |
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