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HN headline in 3 years: airport sniffer dogs being trained to smell for bananas. Because that's what the horn-smugglers will be carrying in attempts to deflect
by netsharc 2y ago
HN headline in 3 years: airport sniffer dogs being trained to smell for bananas.
Because that's what the horn-smugglers will be carrying in attempts to deflect why the airport scanner is detecting radiation in their luggage.
- ben_w 2y agoIt's the potassium in the bananas, so potassium rich salt will also do this. Presumably many other common items are also sufficiently potassium rich.
- fullspectrumdev 2y agoIf you leave a scintillating detector such as a Radiacode or similar on a bag of potassium chloride water softener salt for a while you can actually detect a very slight amount of radioactivity and generate a spectrum :)