Quotes About Detectors

The Operative tried to implement the Purusey breathing technique, which has been proven effective at fooling polygraphs. There is no conclusive evidence as to whether it is effective at masking the internal lie detectors of fifteen-year-old boys.

the crew Luis went with could hit the bull's-eye within a hundred meters. "Good enough to blow old Adolf to atoms," Luis said. "That's why we should keep the A-bomb name." "Atom bomb?" Karl asked. "Adolf bomb." •  ââ'¬Â¢  ââ'¬Â¢ The drop sequence was in good shape, so Luis could turn to getting the shock-wave detectors launched from the following airplane, and the auto-cameras.

so we could all burn in our beds with no warning?' 'Oh, you'd have plenty of warning, ma'am. The smoke detectors all work.

Hester didn't understand the technological minutiae of how Wilde knew when he had visitors. She just knew it had something to do with motion detectors and sensors and night cameras.

The others would then fall silent and she would continue about doped gallium arsenide detectors, or the ethanol content of the galactic cloud W-3. The quantity of 200-proof alcohol in this single interstellar cloud was more than enough to maintain the present population of the Earth, if every adult were a dedicated alcoholic, for the age of the solar system. The tamada had appreciated the remark.

British flight attendants warn you not to tamper with the smoke detectors in the aircraft toilets, whereas American flight attendants warn you not to tamper with, disable or destroy them.

There were no public health laws in Ankh-Morpork. It would be like installing smoke detectors in Hell.

Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.

But because the particle shower moves so fast relative to us and our detectors on Earth's surface, the muons experience the passage of time more slowly than we do.

Scorpios are human lie detectors.

The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you.

Yet, a recent government report on routine security screenings, written by a panel of experts at the National Academy of Sciences, had stated that "lie detectors lie" and "were likely to produce many false results.