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In looking back at all the various bizarre incarnations of woo that I've covered during the last year or so since I started doing Your Friday Dose of Woo, I was wondering if there was a form of woo that I had not covered yet. Woo seems to come in several forms, such as energy woo, water woo, pH…
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This is woo, right?
Well I'm not shopping for lead underwear just yet.
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.)
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.
OMFG!!!111!!eleventy!!!
Terror hurts radiation! What have those damn Mooslems got now? Oh. Terahertz. Sorry, I'll be leaving then.