DHS Molecular Laser Scanners

[Camilo]

Within the next year or two, the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security will
instantly know everything about your
body, clothes, and luggage with a new
laser-based molecular scanner fired from
164 feet (50 meters) away. From traces
of drugs or gun powder on your clothes
to what you had for breakfast to the
adrenaline level in your body-agents will
be able to get any information they want
without even touching you. And without
you knowing it.

Video (about 3 mins):

http://youtu.be/rCLTvK8obtA

Hidden Government Scanners Will Instantly
Know Everything About You From 164 Feet Away

By gizmodo.com
July 19, 2012

Within the next year or two, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will instantly know everything about your body, clothes, and luggage with a new laser-based molecular scanner fired from 164 feet (50 meters) away. From traces of drugs or gun powder on your clothes to what you had for breakfast to the adrenaline level in your body—agents will be able to get any information they want without even touching you. And without you knowing it.

The technology is so incredibly effective that, in November 2011, its inventors were subcontracted by In-Q-Tel to work with the US Department of Homeland Security. In-Q-Tel is a company founded “ in February 1999 by a group of private citizens at the request of the Director of the CIA and with the support of the U.S. Congress.” According to In-Q-Tel, they are the bridge between the Agency and new technology companies.

Their plan is to install this molecular-level scanning in airports and border crossings all across the United States. The official, stated goal of this arrangement is to be able to quickly identify explosives, dangerous chemicals, or bioweapons at a distance.

The machine is ten million times faster—and one million times more sensitive—than any currently available system. That means that it can be used systematically on everyone passing through airport security, not just suspect or randomly sampled people.
Analyzing everything in real time

But the machine can sniff out a lot more than just explosives, chemicals and bioweapons. The company that invented it, Genia Photonics, says that its laser scanner technology is able to “penetrate clothing and many other organic materials and offers spectroscopic information, especially for materials that impact safety such as explosives and pharmacological substances.” [PDF]

Formed in Montreal in 2009 by PhDs with specialties in lasers and fiber optics, Genia Photonics has 30 patents on this technology, claiming incredible biomedical and industrial applications—from identifying individual cancer cells in a real-time scan of a patient, to detecting trace amounts of harmful chemicals in sensitive manufacturing processes.

Meanwhile, In-Q-Tel states that “an important benefit of Genia Photonics’ implementation as compared to existing solutions is that the entire synchronized laser system is comprised in a single, robust and alignment-free unit that may be easily transported for use in many environments… This compact and robust laser has the ability to rapidly sweep wavelengths in any pattern and sequence.” [PDF]

So not only can they scan everyone. They would be able to do it everywhere: the subway, a traffic light, sports events… everywhere.
How does it work?

The machine is a mobile, rack-mountable system. It fires a laser to provide molecular-level feedback at distances of up to 50 meters in just picoseconds. For all intents and purposes, that means instantly.

The small, inconspicuous machine is attached to a computer running a program that will show the information in real time, from trace amounts of cocaine on your dollar bills to gunpowder residue on your shoes. Forget trying to sneak a bottle of water past security—they will be able to tell what you had for breakfast in an instant while you’re walking down the hallway.

The technology is not new, it’s just millions times faster and more convenient than ever before. Back in 2008, a team at George Washington University developed a similar laser spectrometer using a different process. It could sense drug metabolites in urine in less than a second, trace amounts of explosive residue on a dollar bill, and even certain chemical changes happening in a plant leaf.

And the Russians also have a similar technology: announced last April, their “laser sensor can pick up on a single molecule in a million from up to 50 meters away.”

So if Genia Photonics’ claims pan out, this will be an incredible leap forward in terms of speed, portability, and convenience. One with staggering implications.
Observation without limits

There has so far been no discussion about the personal rights and privacy issues involved. Which “molecular tags” will they be scanning for? Who determines them? What are the threshold levels of this scanning? If you unknowingly stepped on the butt of someone’s joint and are carrying a sugar-sized grain of cannabis like that unfortunate traveler currently in jail in Dubai, will you be arrested?

And, since it’s extremely portable, will this technology extend beyone the airport or border crossings and into police cars, with officers looking for people on the street with increased levels of adrenaline in their system to detain in order to prevent potential violent outbursts? And will your car be scanned at stoplights for any trace amounts of suspicious substances? Would all this information be recorded anywhere?

[Snoweagle]

The Nazis cannot hold a candle to the subservient American genocide machine. Operation "paperclip" manifests to a new tag, Operation "staple". Once they have bagged all your info, they will justify your demise.
Wrong shape face - clicketty-click - death
Wrong eyesight - clicketty-click - death
Wrong place to live - clicketty-click - death
Wrong place, wrong time - clicketty-click - death
Wrong hair style - clicketty-click - death
etc

This again is using micro-wave energies. The cell frequencies in all life forms can be monitored with clever telemetry in the same way hand held scanners allow eavesdropping phone calls and messages. Instead of monitoring radio waves to tune a radio station, in exactly the same way, these new systems can tune into frequecies emitted from both life forms and non life forms.

This will magnify the already damaging micro wave smog we live in. Many will die as a result of this technology.
It cannot be deemed as harmless as there exists no studies determining the exposure over the long term. More lies will follow.

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by Camilo (here)
The machine is a mobile, rack-mountable system. It fires a laser to provide molecular-level feedback at distances of up to 50 meters in just picoseconds. For all intents and purposes, that means instantly.

A slight bit of unnecessary exaggeration here .

It takes light about 166,750 picoseconds to travel 50 meters.

[spiritguide]

Posted by Paul (here)

Posted by Camilo (here)
The machine is a mobile, rack-mountable system. It fires a laser to provide molecular-level feedback at distances of up to 50 meters in just picoseconds. For all intents and purposes, that means instantly.

A slight bit of unnecessary exaggeration here .

It takes light about 166,750 picoseconds to travel 50 meters.

What is the speed of a microwave? Does it rely on the frequency set? Is the speed of light the glass ceiling? Just curious.

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by spiritguide (here)
What is the speed of a microwave? Does it rely on the frequency set? Is the speed of light the glass ceiling? Just curious.

All electromagnetic waves have the same top speed, of about 299,792,458 meters / second in a vacuum, a bit slower in most other transparent materials.

When physicists refer to the speed of light, they are actually using the word "light" in a different way that ordinary folks. By "light", they mean all electromagnetic waves, of any frequency, not just human visible light.

By Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, light has a maximum top speed, called "c" in the famous equation:

The "E" is Energy, and the "m" is mass.

[spiritguide]

Magnetic energy flows just trying to keep energetic systems seperate. Light energy and sound energy speeds are measured in m/sec. , does a flow rate exist for magnetism? Does electric energy flow through a wire or does one electron excite another just transferring energy instead of flowing? If the inquiry is disruptive to the thread please forgive and ignore. Thank you!

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by spiritguide (here)
Magnetic energy flows just trying to keep energetic systems seperate. Light energy and sound energy speeds are measured in m/sec. , does a flow rate exist for magnetism? Does electric energy flow through a wire or does one electron excite another just transferring energy instead of flowing?

Modern physics, at least what they make public, doesn't actually have very good answers to your questions. It has some fancy and astonishingly accurate (if you ignore some "inconvenient" cases) equations explaining the properties of electricity, magnetism, and gravity, but doesn't have sensible answers as to what they are or why they behave as they do.

In the particular case of ordinary electricity moving through a wire, we do know that the electrons themselves move quite slowly; it's the energetic field that moves at near light speed.

[Bob]

Update question: Can anyone answer, has this system or any variants been installed and operating in any airports, train stations, post offices yet? This thread is from about a year old ( started oct 2012 )