Comments on: Still angry that those X-Ray Glasses never worked? https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/04/20/still-angry-that-those-x-ray-g/ Sat, 21 Apr 2012 09:48:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Martin https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/04/20/still-angry-that-those-x-ray-g/#comment-492324 Sat, 21 Apr 2012 09:48:05 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/04/20/still-angry-that-those-x-ray-g/#comment-492324 OMFG!!!111!!eleventy!!!

Terror hurts radiation! What have those damn Mooslems got now? Oh. Terahertz. Sorry, I’ll be leaving then.

]]> By: Ken https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/04/20/still-angry-that-those-x-ray-g/#comment-492323 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 23:57:49 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/04/20/still-angry-that-those-x-ray-g/#comment-492323 More info here:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-cell-walls.html

You can get a copy of their paper here:

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6176998

if you want to pay for it.

]]> By: Emory Kimbrough https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/04/20/still-angry-that-those-x-ray-g/#comment-492322 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 22:58:48 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/04/20/still-angry-that-those-x-ray-g/#comment-492322 Well, sorta…

Terahertz radiation can pass through lots of materials like plastics, paper, ceramics, and fabrics. Therefore, it’s not too terribly wrong to say that it can see through clothes. But, scanning a clothed person will produce mostly a rough silhouette form of their body with very little or no surface detail. So…

Security Value – High: May be quite useful to scan whether a person is packing heat, in the non-infrared sense of packing heat.

Porno Value – Alas, Quite Low: But maybe not quite zero if you’re juvenile, extremely easily aroused, and lacking in respect. (That was somewhat redundant.)

]]> By: chris y https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/04/20/still-angry-that-those-x-ray-g/#comment-492321 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:46:57 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/04/20/still-angry-that-those-x-ray-g/#comment-492321 This is woo, right?

Well I’m not shopping for lead underwear just yet.

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