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Old Jul 12, 2007, 6:49 pm
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law dawg
 
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Originally Posted by bocastephen
I'm not sure whether to post this here or the 'guess what I found' thread, but I wanted to reference a post I made a couple months back regarding a machine available TODAY for a very reasonable price that can scan for and detect the presence of explosive compounds and other chemicals (including TATP) from substances inside closed containers - including things like water bottles, shampoo bottles, toothpaste tubes, etc. etc.

As long as the scanner can see it, it can scan the contents inside the containers.

Why isn't this technology part of a holistic scanning system which combines explosives detection and x-ray analysis?
Good question. Even that FAM someone posted about a month or so ago was asking for this.......
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