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    A small group of Army Rangers—the elite unit of ground troops—were testing out the beta version of a “see through walls” (STW) sensor at Eiler Hall, an old maintenance facility converted into a training site. One soldier pointed the sensor, housed inside a big, bright-orange suitcase, directly at the target: a windowless building that might contain the enemy. Several yards behind him, another took a reading off a laptop.

    On the screen: a simple graph charting time and distance. A single red dot moved down the grid. Movement behind the wall!"

    Up until now, the only way to see through the wall was to blow a hole in it and stick your head in,” says Maj. Bill Kembley, our tour guide for the training exercise.
    It will be at least a couple years before the Army actually uses this STW technology, and by then it will look a lot different. The sensor, for instance will be the size of a Palm Pilot, not a 14-pound suitcase. And it won’t be orange.
    Sheeshhhh......and by then it will have an image instead of a dot; probably in technicolor

    Dr. Mordrid
    Last edited by Dr Mordrid; 16 January 2003, 19:34.
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    It's still cheaper just to waste a TOW missile and find out if anyone is in there...

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      Such a pity that "Headcasting" never became big.................oh wait, maybe it now will!
      Lawrence

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        and the movement was the cat.
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        • #5
          I believe the amplitude of the signal would differentiate between a human and a cat

          BUT....what happens if someone has a freakin' Marmaduke clone like our dog Spike? Damned dog is bigger than half the human race

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          • #6
            Combination sensing. One of the places I used to work at was working on applications of this - like an Ultrasound that could show you your baby in full color, 3D, realtime.

            Or ground penetrating radar that could find land mines from a moving helicopter.

            Or... sensors that could let you (sort of) see through walls.

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