13 July 2010

The Feds continue to say that they are "uncertain" whether
the new scanners would find an underwear bomb (tm). Obviously one could design experiments to find out, given access to a machine, operator, and clever IED.

So: obviously the Fed's machines cannot detect an artfully concealed bomb of sufficient size to down a pressurized airliner. Otherwise, they'd publish the evidence.

Sometimes "no comment" is a comment.



I saw a transmission x-ray machine being advertised as revealing all the bodily cavities. Nice. Obviously a transmission vs. backscatter machine is like gamma to alpha rays.