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by bleepblap 142 days ago
Certainly, but a) not at the prices people wanted to spend to get 25,000 of them b) not at the maintenance cost for 25,000 of them c) without the software to (by someone's metric) discriminate between shampoo and bomb with enough error
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25,000? Interesting. Is there anywhere I can read up on this?
There are a lot of airports in the Us and 2.5 million passengers transit them daily.
Ohh, I thought by

> a) not at the prices people wanted to spend to get 25,000 of them

you were referring to the number of images being taken (per passenger / piece of luggage):

> spin an X-ray machine around and take a ton of pictures to recreate a 3d image