Comments on: Randall Larsen’s 70-20-10 solution http://www.americanmadness.com/2006/05/30/randall-larsens-70-20-10-solution/ Intelligent Criticism in the Service of a Better Nation Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:33:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Randy Larsen http://www.americanmadness.com/2006/05/30/randall-larsens-70-20-10-solution/#comment-132194 Randy Larsen Mon, 12 May 2008 22:19:44 +0000 http://americanmadness.com/?p=133#comment-132194 “The scanning technologies for nuclear weapons and dirty bombs work in two different ways. Passive systems detect radiation being emitted by the weapon. Active systems use different parts of the electro-magnetic spectrum to detect the density of objects being scanned.” Yes there are technologies that identify very dense objects. Unfortunately, water is very dense. You can hide a very large nuke in a swimming pool and have a detector-equipped DOE helicopter hovering right overhead and not be able to detect it. FYI: fruit is mostly water. Are we going to hand-inspect every container filled with fruit? The only people who will benefit from 100% screening are the companies who make the scanning machines. “The scanning technologies for nuclear weapons and dirty bombs work in two different ways. Passive systems detect radiation being emitted by the weapon. Active systems use different parts of the electro-magnetic spectrum to detect the density of objects being scanned.”

Yes there are technologies that identify very dense objects. Unfortunately, water is very dense. You can hide a very large nuke in a swimming pool and have a detector-equipped DOE helicopter hovering right overhead and not be able to detect it. FYI: fruit is mostly water. Are we going to hand-inspect every container filled with fruit?

The only people who will benefit from 100% screening are the companies who make the scanning machines.

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