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That the US Government

Chris — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 14:15:19 +0000

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That the US Government directly spent money on this device is wrong. Iraq's Ministry of Interior purchased them in a no-bid contract for ATSC, which is based in the UK. As soon as the product was distributed to our outpost on the Iranian border in April 2009, my team and I called BS on it. We told the Iraqi generals that it was BS. We told the Iraqi Police that it was BS. We made them test the ADE 651 to show them it was BS. The Iraqi answer - "There are mines all over this area from the Iran-Iraq War. That's why it seems like it doesn't work, but it's the only technology we have. So, we're still going to use it."

Read the NY Times article from January 2010 with Iraqi General al-Jabiri. That should be enough of an insight into their mentality regarding the product. You can tell the Iraqis how it is impossible according to physics all day long, but how do you explain physics to a powerful man with a 5th grade education?

Sooooo, do you think we can

Gelley — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 05:28:15 +0000

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Sooooo, do you think we can return them and get a full refund? Half maybe? I hear WalMart will take anything back.

I don't see anywhere that the

acanuck — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:07:06 +0000

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I don't see anywhere that the U.S. govt. is buying these devices for use by its troops. But yeah, it's bad enough that they are being relied on by Iraqi troops at checkpoints.

If it weren't for the people being blown up and all, the funniest part would be that the "electronic card" at the heart of the ADE 651 is actually an anti-shoplifting tag. Pretty scary.

Wow. Just wow. What's

Atheist — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:18:40 +0000

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Wow. Just wow. What's shocking is the hoops I have to go through to get government funding, but yet some bozos seem to find ways to do it without any checking going on whatsoever.

Also, the first two of the three explanations are actual things. NMR is what we physicists call MRI. (The medical profession didn't like the word "nuclear", so they dropped it, and added the "I" for imaging.) NQR is a cousin of NMR.