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Fumesucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-30-11 06:44 PM
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5. Let a team of NHRA, NASCAR, Formula 1 and so on scrutineers examine it in detail..
Their day to day job is catching people cheating or trying to cheat with technology, hollow bolts, holes drilled through apparently solid objects, concentric hoses that flow two different liquids with the outer one being the legitimate, battery wires that are hollow and carry an illicit fluid, all kinds of tricks..

The average engineer or academic simply isn't sneaky enough to be top notch at catching sneaky people, their default assumption is that things are as they seem and it's hard for them to change mental states to being suspicious, scrutineers don't have to change mental state to look very hard at something for evidence of it not being straightforward.

For instance, a really easy example would be a hose that is blistering hot to the touch on the outside while flowing ice water out the end.

Or vice versa.

You could touch it or even look at it with a thermal imager and not tell that the hose was doing the opposite of what it appeared.

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