The irritating thing is that there is a much cheaper and more effective alternative, use trained dogs. From what I remember, (had a prof in grad school who studied this and trained dogs for the FDA and other government agencies), a beagle's nose is sensitive enough to detect trace amounts of PETN and other explosives from a few feet away. And besides beagles are much less threatening.
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:58 AM, G Money <gm0n3...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> Last September I flew out to Portland OR. At the Dulles airport I was >> the recipient of a full body pat down because of my insulin pump, and >> a false positive reading on an explosives detector (I guess it didn't >> help that I had cleaned out the ferrets' litter box just before >> leaving). The pat down was extremely intrusive to the point where from >> now on given the choice I would go for a scanner every time. >> > > You shouldn't even have to make that choice. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:331694 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
