NASA plans to read terrorists minds at airports

[sailor]

I am not sure this can really be done even if NASA says so but *if* it can be done, is it a good idea? Do we want the government reading our minds? What's next? Catching child molesters? Then Bank robbers? Then people with unpaid parking tickets?

What happens if I am going through the thought machine and I'm thinking the operator has really nice tits? what If I think she's ugly?

[sailor]

Forgot the link: http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020817-704732.htm

[SPOOFE]

Oh, great. So now when I'm walking through the metal detector and thinking about playing Counterstrike, I might get arrested?

[adamant]

Does this mean I need to wear my tinfoil hat to the airport?

[bizzwire]

Well, if the people operting the new system are the same ones doing the X-ray screening of your carry-ons, I don't think you have too much to worry about.

[Duck Duck Goose]

Well, to clarify one thing.

It's not even built yet, or even designed, it's only a theory, and according to experts, not even a very plausible theory.
Private researchers say reliable EEG brain waves are usually measurable only by machines whose sensors touch the head, sometimes in a "thinking cap" device. "To say I can take that cap off and put sensors in a doorjamb, and as the passenger starts walking through [to allow me to say] that they are a threat or not, is at this point a future application," Mr. Schlickenmaier said in an interview.

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Two physics professors familiar with brain-wave research, but not associated with NASA, questioned how such testing could be feasible or reliable for mass screening. "What they're saying they would do has not been done, even wired in," says a national authority on neuro-electric sensing, who asked not to be identified. He called NASA's goal "pretty far out."
So we're talking "science fiction" here, with the emphasis on "fiction".

And if they ever do get the thing up and running, measuring people's EEGs at a distance, it still wouldn't be "mind reading". They can already measure people's EEGs but they can't read their thoughts, so the only use they would get out of their "mind-reading" gadget would be to collect lie-detector-type information, and get a lot of "terrorist!" alerts from people zonked on cold medication.

[Lord Ashtar]

Suddenly, I can't stop thinking of the movie Minority Report...

[Sgt. J]

I can't stop thinking about mind reading technology falling into the wrong hands...my wife's. :eek:

[Rug Burn]

Originally posted by Sgt. J
I can't stop thinking about mind reading technology falling into the wrong hands...my wife's. :eek:


Here here. The all seeing eye is hard enough to escape.

I have no doubt that if such a machine were feasable; our current administration would implement it without a second thought. So which states will be free states and which will be federal prisons?