Seriously.
Here's an idea:
Instead of scanning people one-by-one to see if they're packing a bomb, why not instead sniff them a dozen at a time?
Then - if a sensitive sniffer senses a certain amount of PPM of any chemical associated with explosives, those people get closer scrutiny: either a thorough pat-down or a visual scanners.
It would be faster and expose more people to less radiation and fewer gropings.
All the TSA would need is a supplier of er um... let's say 15 x 15' sealed rooms with vacuum-sniffers to detect volatile chems' associated with explosives at the PPM level in a few minutes.
IS THIS POSSIBLE? FEASIBLE? PATENTABLE?
Lemme know in comments...
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Didn't they used to have those "puffer" machines that did that? I'm told they don't use them because they broke down and maintenance was very expensive. Can't have been as expensive as the lawsuits coming out of this "GropeGate" will cost...
ReplyDeleteOTOH, why don't they just used explosive detection dogs?!?!?! People like dogs. Teaching a dog to detect an array of suspect chemical odors takes only a few weeks, and they could do intensive searches AND background checks with reasonable cause if the dog signals, first. People would be much less resentful, and fewer people would be wasting their time.
the puffer machine were designed to sniff one person at a time.
ReplyDeletegroup sniffing would be beter and would giove prob cause to do further exam if the buzzer goes off