Humans have long turned to the dog for its nose, especially in its ability to hunt, track missing people, and search for drugs.
But there is a new challenge: Bomb-detecting dogs have to now learn to find the increasingly common Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) that can be assembled from ingredients that are not dangerous by itself.
"So we're now asking dogs not just to find a needle in a haystack – now the problem is more like saying to the dog 'we need you to find any sharp object in the haystack,' " says Clive Wynne, a professor at Arizona State University.
Wynne directs a study funded by the Office of Naval Research that develops methods to train dogs to identify a wide variety of ingredients that could be used to make bombs.
The dogs not only have to detect whether explosive ingredients are present — they also have to determine if the agents they smell could combine to form an explosive mixture.
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And then, they'll have to teach them how to tell the difference between someone making a bomb and someone doing gold recovery and refining as a hobby.., or, or maybe they wanna know about the hobbyist too, ya think? So they can screw with them on an IRS issue :-\
See it unfolding folks. HSA & Patriot have become monsters with tentacles crushing the Constitution & Bill of Rights.
Well, I guess I can't buy Kingsford charcoal for the grill anymore. What else will be illegal?
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