5 thoughts on “Tuesday Open Thread”

1. Today is National Beer Day (United Kingdom)

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   1. Thanks to the Delta variant, they’re “crying in it” ….but at home, not at the local pub. 

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   2. Thank you Jimmy Carter for letting us drink micro-brews.

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2. We somehow managed to land on Mars before we figured this out?

   Say goodbye to bare feet at airport security

   Thanks to a partnership between Atlanta-based security startup Liberty Defense and technology from the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, soon passengers will no longer have to take their shoes off in airport security lines. 

   Instead, they will step onto a platform that scans for threatening objects in just seconds, keeping those long TSA lines moving much quicker. 

   Liberty Defense CEO Bill Frain said his team is anticipating deploying the technology across airports in the next 18 months. This could not come at a better time for our own Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport as travel is beginning to increase.

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   1. Don't know if you saw this at the beginning of the month:

      ABC EXCLUSIVE: Undercover DHS Tests Find Security Failures at US Airports

      An internal investigation of the Transportation Security Administration revealed security failures at dozens of the nation’s busiest airports, where undercover investigators were able to smuggle mock explosives or banned weapons through checkpoints in 95 percent of trials, ABC News has learned.

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