My Star-Trek Moment
Oct. 17th, 2011 07:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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octopoid_horror asked if my new ceramic knife could be smuggled onto planes.
And I wondered how I could tell if a metal detector would be able to pick it up (short of finding some magnets and waving them at it carefully.
And thendraxar pointed out that I could download a metal detector for my phone.
Because it has a compass built into it, and can thus tell when metal objects are being waved at it.
And it worked perfectly (and no, I cannot smuggle my kitchenware onto flights).
And suddenly I feel even more like I'm living in Star-Trek.
octopoid_horror asked if my new ceramic knife could be smuggled onto planes. And I wondered how I could tell if a metal detector would be able to pick it up (short of finding some magnets and waving them at it carefully.
And then
draxar pointed out that I could download a metal detector for my phone.Because it has a compass built into it, and can thus tell when metal objects are being waved at it.
And it worked perfectly (and no, I cannot smuggle my kitchenware onto flights).
And suddenly I feel even more like I'm living in Star-Trek.
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Date: 2011-10-17 06:57 pm (UTC)How would one go about it?