Quote Originally Posted by JohnQPublic View Post
FLIR infrared:

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I've experience with high resolution IR scanners and I don't buy the story that they found the guy under the cover on the boat using an IR camera (so-called 'FLIR'*).

*FLIR stand for 'forward looking infrared' which is a term used for primitive IR scanners from the Vietnam War era and it's what know-nothings happen to call IR cameras/scanners to sound cool, and because it's a widely recognized term for an obsolete FIXED (i.e. 'forward looking' on an aircraft) system a company which got into the IR scanner biz grabbed the name 'FLIR' to sound cool - the ultra top secret handheld IR scanner from the Vietnam War era was a device cooled with argon gas called a Hughes (Aircraft) Probeye -

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