NASA plans to read terrorist's minds at airports

Washington Times ^ | 8/17/02 | Frank J. Murray

[kattracks]

Airport security screeners may soon try to read the minds of travelers to identify terrorists.

Officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration have told Northwest Airlines security specialists that the agency is developing brain-monitoring devices in cooperation with a commercial firm, which it did not identify.

[VaBthang4]

Harumgh! Mental Profiling! Absolutely not!

Thanks Kat....pretty interesting.

[Mulder]

Why not just keep the hordes of barbarians the hell out of America?

This is the sort of stuff that tyrants like Hitler, Stalin, and Mao would have wet dreams about.

[HassanBenSobar]

Ahh, this is nothing. It's the CIA that does all the mind reading. The CIA and the "watchers"...shhhh, that's one of them right now...right up there on the black helicopter...

[stalin]

Stalin aproves.

[Mulder]

Harumgh! Mental Profiling! Absolutely not!

Your heartrate, brainwaves, and blood pressure will all be fed into a federal database, that also contains your job history, school history, shopping habits, and personal preferences.

All of this will be combined to give a composite "score" for each American.

Your loving federal government will then determine if you pose a "threat" based on how high this score is. Score high enough, and it's off to the FEMA camps.

But it's for the children

[Mulder]

Stalin aproves.

No doubt about it.

As do many of his followers in our corrupt government.

[mlibertarianj]

Let me guess the consultants are Miss Cleo, Art Bell and Gordon Michael Scallion!

[chaosagent]

Does this mean I'll have to buy extra tinfoil when I fly?

[krb]

Oh this is getting weird.

[mvpel]

[Samwise]

We used to joke about the Thought Police at work. At least I thought we were joking.

[glock rocks]

so... they currently don't profile middle eastern men between the ages of 18 and 40...
but they do frisk buxom blond american women. hmmmmm.

so if they have an amazing capability to psychologically profile "terrorists" they will... um...
hey, meryle, look at the wheels on that babe... woo hoo.

[My Favorite Headache]

I am laughing out of control...lololololol...this is unreal

[BlessingInDisguise]

[BlazingArizona]

This is the sort of stuff that tyrants like Hitler, Stalin, and Mao would have wet dreams about.

Airlines are going to love this. Just when the Passenger Humiliation Consultants (tm) were starting to run out of new ways to make travelers feel like crap: unexplained delays, silly rules they make up at the last minute, lack of food, and bizarre pricing, a new technology breaks the field wide open again.

We hate to fly, and it shows!

[TheAngryClam]

A real use for tinfoil hats!

[ramdalesh]

If that is the case then why don't they just use satellight telescopy and fast fourier transform to take photographs of a "Global CAT Scan, or MRI scan". Program a computer to analyse the data and isolate the terrorists by looking for regions of the picture where the people in the picture have an overactive "Amigdala" in their brains. Then cross reference this information to the geographical information systems database about the regions where the (red amigdala) points show up from telescopy. This technique would require the skills of astronomers, but instead of searching for stars quasars, black holes, distant, galaxies and micrawave background radiation, they will be looking for chemical readings related to terrorism. Then go to their front doors and arrest them.

"knock, knock, knock, F.B.I. you are under arrest. You are a thought criminal, our satelite took this photograph of you this morning. You are caught redhanded in the act of thinking subversive thoughts, and plotting terrorism."

Then have a public execution, where the Guilty Persons are killed in front of a firing squad, and show it live on every television everywhere in the world. After that people will believe in big brother, and the war on terrorism will end.

In that way you can save millions of dollars. Just build one really powerful MRI telescope. Tell the people that your going to use it. Then use it, then the war is over.

[Mulder]

Airlines are going to love this. Just when the Passenger Humiliation Consultants (tm) were starting to run out of new ways to make travelers feel like crap: unexplained delays, silly rules they make up at the last minute, lack of food, and bizarre pricing, a new technology breaks the field wide open again.

If you paid a group of consultants $1 billion dollars to devise a system which would reduce the number of flyers, they could not have done a "better" job than those currently making the decisions.

Therefore, I believe it's being done intentionally so that the airlines will continue to lose money. Once a few of them go belly-up, then the feds will come in and "save the industry" by nationalizing the remianing airlines. (Of course, they call it by another name).

[Chad Fairbanks]

Well, Northwest just lost any future business they might have had from me...