Whitechapel - Divining for Bombs Sat, 18 May 2013 20:42:55 -0700 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.4 & Feed Publisher Divining for Bombs http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7619&Focus=215700#Comment_215700 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7619&Focus=215700#Comment_215700 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:52:24 -0800 Flabyo I'm almost entirely lost for words...

I know that the situation is pretty desperate out there, but why you would willing throw so much cash at a device without testing it vigourously yourself first? The claim that if it doesn't work it's cause the operator is too stressed should've set the alarm bells ringing at the very least. ]]> Divining for Bombs http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7619&Focus=215704#Comment_215704 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7619&Focus=215704#Comment_215704 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:03:13 -0800 RenThing Divining for Bombs http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7619&Focus=215730#Comment_215730 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7619&Focus=215730#Comment_215730 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:05:07 -0800 roadscum
(edited, Mr Alford was the interviewer. Doh!) ]]> Divining for Bombs http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7619&Focus=215832#Comment_215832 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7619&Focus=215832#Comment_215832 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:27:56 -0800 Audley Strange
Last month, a senior Iraqi officer involved in bomb-prevention defended the ADE-651... "Whether it's magic or scientific, what I care about is it detects bombs," he said.
]]> Divining for Bombs http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7619&Focus=215856#Comment_215856 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7619&Focus=215856#Comment_215856 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:51:11 -0800 Alan Tyson Mr McCormick told the BBC in a previous interview that "the theory behind dowsing and the theory behind how we actually detect explosives is very similar".

This explains a lot that shouldn't need explaining. ]]> Divining for Bombs http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7619&Focus=215861#Comment_215861 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7619&Focus=215861#Comment_215861 Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:30:56 -0800 roadscum Well now he's explaining it to the police. ]]> Divining for Bombs http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7619&Focus=216163#Comment_216163 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7619&Focus=216163#Comment_216163 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:12:59 -0800 bjacques
Quadro Tracker. I enjoyed seeing this on the local news back in the day. Cops are always looking for a magical device to make their jobs easier. ]]> Divining for Bombs http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7619&Focus=216184#Comment_216184 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7619&Focus=216184#Comment_216184 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:34:24 -0800 James Puckett It does not operate by battery, instead promotional material says it is powered only by the user's static electricity.

And it comes complete with an Ayn Rand reference. Wow.

The ADE-651 has been sold to a range of Middle Eastern countries and as far afield as Bangkok.

Sadly, the same situation is about to be true of phony full-body scanners that have been shown to detect Blackberries, phones, iPods, and fail miserably at actually detecting bombs. ]]>