Iin grad school one of the Profs I worked with had a side line of raising and training dogs for a couple of different government agencies. The USDA dogs were pretty cool. Their job was to detect any restricted vegetables or fruit that people may try to get through customs. These beagles (yes beagles - they were thought to be the least threatening), would wander along the baggage pickup and would sit down beside a suspect piece of luggage if it contained something suspicious. Their reliability (false hits misses etc) was better than 99%. And the cost of raising and training the dog is much less than a lot of the detectors now proposed.
Its just basic stuff not rocket science, just basic behavioral psych. The animals can be trained to pick up a variety of different targets, explosives, drugs etc. So why waste millions on a system that may or may not work half as well as 3 or 4 dogs and their handlers. On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Casey Dougall <ca...@uberwebsitesolutions.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> PETN and other explosives are very difficult to pickup using a wand. I >> suspect that they'd be quite difficult to detect with x-rays as well. >> The only reliable detector I know of is a trained explosives sniffing >> dog. >> >> > Like the one that was sleeping last time I was at Albany Airport LOL > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:309892 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
