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This is almost as awesome as the fake bomb detector ... Which some states actually purchased! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADE_651 https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
by kelvin0 11y ago
This is almost as awesome as the fake bomb detector ... Which some states actually purchased!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADE_651 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADE_651
- TeMPOraL 11y agoFrom some point of view it is awesome, but personally that bomb detector is a kind of fraud I seriously believe should be punished much harder than cold-blooded murder. The producer is making shit ton of money on knowingly exploiting countries and putting many people at risk. I wonder how many lives this device has already claimed.
- vox_mollis 11y agoThe reported poor performance of both red mercury nuclear devices and the ADE 651 are due to the integrators' failure to power them with the output of a properly-calibrated Turboencabulator. Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turboencabulator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turboencabulator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w
- kelvin0 11y agoI wish I could upvote this! :)
- clock_tower 11y agoI don't know that "awesome" is quite the word for this. If these things work at all, they work as dowsing rods, and not even the most fanatical New Ager claims that everyone in the world can dowse. (Claims tend to be more of the "1 in 100,000" variety.) More likely, these things just don't work at all, for anyone, no matter what unlikely theories about the world might or might not be true... as shown by the Wikipedia article, which relates cases of contraband passing frightening numbers of checkpoints operating these pieces of junk. One Iraqi general was fond of them, but apparently he was heavily bribed...
- kelvin0 11y agoIt's been established it didn't work, don't try to convince me. The 'awesome' part I was mentionning was the capacity for people to believe some less than rational assertions.
- clock_tower 11y agoI agree that they didn't work; what I'm trying to say is that _even if dowsing was real, these things still wouldn't work_.
- tcpekin 11y agoHere's a great article on this for anyone interested in more back story: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/06/fake-bomb-detectors-iraq http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/06/fake-bomb-detectors-i...
- goatforce5 11y agoIt works perfectly as a detector of fake bombs though.