Ears provide new way of identifying people in airports

Why do people immediately think of airports everytime a new hairbrained identification scheme comes up?

Because your hometown Mall of America hasn't been attacked.

As soon as it is, there'll be NoS to enter there, too.

Time to start buying stock in companies that make this and these.

It is harder to do that with your ears, but there is one thing that can get in the way of the ears and that is hair.

Big Hair: it's coming back, and better than ever!

"there is one thing that can get in the way of the ears and that is hair." Only ONE thing?

This system has two fatal flaws (not counting the millions of wasted tax dollars that will be thrown at L3 and friends). First, like fingerprints, you need a good picture of the ear of your subject to match it to.

Second, a scanner in a public place needs to see the subject�s ears. Hair is the least of their problems. When the sign goes up next to the airport door �ALL Sikh dastars, Muslim hajibs and burqas, and Arab Keffiyehs MUST be removed to enter, and Mr. OBL please pull up your turban so we can see your ears� there will of course be no outcry regarding cultural insensitivity. I am so sure they will all just say �Well, anything for security.�

At MCO the computer will explode when it sees hundreds of identical ears and concludes �OMG, the tewwowists have cloned an army of little people.�

I hear all the trekkies dusting off their rubber Spock ears already.

They know TSA will buy anything without proper testing and evaluation if the price is high enough!

There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. (Brutus IV.iii) @:-)

The way things are going the TSA is going to be bring socialized health to everyone who flies.

First, they check your ears and take your temperature.

Next you step on the scale on scale for your weight and a check of you BMI and whether your are carrying dense objects

Sir, please turn your head and cough while check for hernias and explosives under your scrotum.

Mam, please remove your bra so we can do breast exam while checking for explosive implants.

Please step into the WBI/MRI while check you for skin cancer and concealed contraband.

And of the best for last, your personal colonoscopy while checking for keistered explosives.

Now that is going to be one program that both political parties can agree on !!!

Geez, WWVVGD (What would Vincent van Gogh do!)

Wonder what ex-politician is shilling this idea?

No, they wouldn't do that. The Mall of America is next to the airport. They'd just make everyone going to the mall go though screening at MSP on the way.