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A few nice Backscatter images I found:

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Image by Dirkusmaximus
I love all those "OMG I TOTALY TOOK A PITCURE OF A GHOSTSSS!!!11" images. Flash backscatter, breath condensation, camera straps, stray hairs, fingers in front of the lens… well here’s a real ghost for you. BOO! 🙂

This "ghost" is taking a stroll down the College Run trail at Chippokes Plantation State Park in Surry, VA. The washed out area on his mouth was supposed to be his tongue sticking out, but I guess I pointed the flashlight too directly at the camera and it flared out. Oh well.

If you look at the background, you’ll notice the glow of headlights coming up around the hill. I’m surprised I didn’t have a ranger coming out there to ask me just what precisely the h3ll I thought I was doing. 😀

Schooling whiting

Image by Saspotato
My flash kept making too much backscatter 🙁 So I turned it off and used my torch, didn’t turn out great but to see this was awesome as there were *tonnes* of sparkling fish schooling around us
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Rye Pier

Wall Mural in Monterey

Image by Ed Bierman
Big mural on the side of Backscatter in Monterey.

(NO-RAD-ZONE) Joseph Reiss VP Marketing American Science and Engineering describes the newest technology. Backscatter technology can be applied anywhere and is being sold to the government as well as to the public. There is no regulation and no way of regulating how long they scan individuals. Radiation is dangerous. Radiation causes cancer. This can be a weapon and is definitely a violation of civil rights. It has no medical use and is too dangerous. Backscatter vans can pull up outside any home or building and monitor what is going on inside. They may witness anything they like for hours if not longer. Individuals are submitted radiation without any knowledge. If a family unit is present children are subjected as well, unbeknownst to anyone. No amount of radiation is safe. Children and the elderly are more susceptible to DNA damage from radiation. If you had the money you could fry someone without them knowing it. 1/2 hour of backscatter/x-ray surveillance would cause cancer. AS & E specs show ratings for a 5 rem flash saying it’s relatively harmless. There is no information or specs on surveillance type radiation readings. Unpaid scientists disagree with the use of such products.

Jeri shows how to make a hand operated microwave frequency imaging device from low cost parts.
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The Cancer Factory on Wheels: Backscatter Van The Screening Mobile Module is not cool at all Backscatter Xray vans hit the streets of America…Xraying you in violation of your 4th Amendment rights. This is continuing evidence of Fascism since the False Flag of 911. Make this go viral. American Science and Engineering’s Z Backscatter Van (ZBV) is a low-cost, extremely maneuverable screening system built into a commercially available delivery van. The ZBV employs AS&E’s patented Z Backscatter technology, which offers photo-like images that reveal contraband that transmission X-rays miss — such as explosives (including car bombs), people and plastic weapons — and provides photo-like imaging for rapid analysis. This is Blaten rights abuse and probarbly causes you cancers aswel I dont want no goddamn van |X Raying me Who the heck thinks they need homeland Security when ther IS no Terror Threat No one down my street ever got got killed by tons of terrorrists especiay imaginary ones !! Wake the Fuck up Human Race and understand they are eroding more civil liberties dail y !!! bu selling you GRADUALISM .. !! In other word they creep in under cover of a good thing..show the scenarious that might happen if we buy into it..that allready did that with state sponsored 9/11 Never forget what 911 has done ..and it was dome to us my our own Western and Isreali Governments
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www.big3news.net UPDATED 10/21/11: In what federal authorities describe as a “first ever” operation, a transportation security program that was first used last October on Interstate highways in Georgia has now been expanded to Tennessee scale locations where trucks and large vehicles are weighed… READ MORE AT THE LINK ABOVE. ————————————————————————————————– Feds roll out backscatter X-ray units on Georgia’s I-20 in expanded VIPR operation Cargo from more than 600 semi-truck trailers traveling Eastbound on Georgia’s I-20 was scanned last week by mobile X-ray units for explosive and radiation threats as part of an expanded federal counter-terrorism operation, Big 3 News has learned. Vermont-based privacy and computer forensics expert Frederick Lane spoke to Big 3 News on Oct. 3 in an exclusive interview about the government’s intrusion into the lives of Americans with the use of emerging technologies such as mobile backscatter X-ray units. READ MORE: www.big3news.net
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The USAF’s Rome Laboratory had the first US success with their AN/FPS-118 OTH-B. A prototype with a 1 MW transmitter and a separate receiver was installed in Maine, offering coverage over a 60 degree arc between 900 to 3300 km. A permanant transmitting facility was then built in Moscow, Maine, a receiving facility in nearby Columbia Falls, and an operational center between them in Bangor. The coverage could be extended with additional receivers, providing for complete coverage over a 180 degree arc (each 60 degree portion known as a “sector”). GE Aerospace was awarded the development contract, expanding the existing east coast system with two additional sectors, while building another three-sector system on the west coast, a two-sector system in Alaska, and a one-sector system facing south. In 1992 the Air Force contracted to extend the coverage 15 degrees clockwise on the southern of the three east coast sectors to be able to cover the southeast US border. Additionally, the range was extended to 3000 miles, crossing the equator. This was operated 40 hours a week at random times. Radar data was fed to the US Customs/Coast Guard C3I Center, Miami; Joint Task Force 4 Operations Center, Key West; US Southern Command Operations Center, Key West; and US Southern Command Operations Center, Panama. With the end of the cold war, the influence of the two senators from Maine was not enough to save the operation and the Alaska and southern-facing sites were canceled, the two so-far …
Video Rating: 4 / 5

Europe Bans Airport X-Ray Scanners that US Still Uses
By Frances Romero | @Frances_Romero | November 17, 2011 | + A TSA officer stands next to a backscatter body scanner at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. The European Commission adopted new rules Nov. 14 regarding X-ray, …
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Air Force Land For Sale Draws Bids
Moscow – There have been only two bids so far for nearly 1500 acres and several large buildings in Moscow that was once home to the Air Force's Over-the-Horizon-Backscatter radar system. The Morning Sentinel reported that as of late Tuesday, …
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Oxford Instruments Create Educational Website Covering Electron Backscatter …
EBSD, or Electron Backscatter Diffraction, is an advanced technology used to perform quantitative microstructure analysis of a sample inside a Scanning Electron Microscope. EBSD.com is packed with information and animations, videos and interactive apps …
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Dutch Customs deploy Z Backscatter
1 (UPI) — The Netherland's Customs Administration is using Z Backscatter mobile X-ray screening system by American Science and Engineering Inc. to check aircraft cargo. The system will scan in real-time a variety of aircraft to reveal organic threats …
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Did the TSA Ignore Early X-Ray Scanner Cancer Risks?
So how did 250 X-ray "backscatter" scanners, which potentially increase cancer rates, land in American airports? Because the TSA insists they're safe. As it turns out, The Food and Drug Administration is only responsible for regulating medical X-ray …
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A few nice Backscatter images I found:

Glory – Darwin to Sydney

Image by brewbooks
this is a Glory (optical_phenomenon) which can be seen from aircraft in the direction opposite the sun, which was the case here.

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A few nice Backscatter images I found:

Starry night

Image by Caro’s Lines
Well flour really

First snow

Image by Caro’s Lines
The first snow in Bristol this winter

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Image by Nemo’s great uncle
Pardon the back scatter. It was raining.