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So these trained animals can detect propellants quickly and with amazing accuracy.
How long before a sensor is developed that can rival the speed of a canine's olfactory senses? Something along the lines of a halon pump used by HVAC techs. It would have a small diaphragm pump to pull in air through a tube (sniff) and this would flow across a sensor.
Can a dog still find PETN that's been carefully vacuum sealed?
Their noses are amazing.
I bring this up because of all the news about smuggling IEDs on one's person and the dogs are not allowed to sniff a crotch, for example. Looks like the full body scanners have some serious opposition as well.
At Miami security was noticeably tightened at the port this past weekend. More dogs were present sniffing bags.
How long before a sensor is developed that can rival the speed of a canine's olfactory senses? Something along the lines of a halon pump used by HVAC techs. It would have a small diaphragm pump to pull in air through a tube (sniff) and this would flow across a sensor.
Can a dog still find PETN that's been carefully vacuum sealed?
Their noses are amazing.
I bring this up because of all the news about smuggling IEDs on one's person and the dogs are not allowed to sniff a crotch, for example. Looks like the full body scanners have some serious opposition as well.
At Miami security was noticeably tightened at the port this past weekend. More dogs were present sniffing bags.