Illegal Thermal Use

The FLIR system I got to play with 15 years ago was sensitive enough to see farts in the hangar and find recently disturbed earth from the air, and it was already 10 years old and considered nearly obsolete at the time.
In the Old Guy Stories category, back in 1987, when I was a postdoc in Oslo, we got to see some video made with obsolete night surveillance gear that the Israeli military was peddling to biologists. We watched video of gerbils at over 40 meters, feeding on seeds under shrubs and grass and we could see their front toes on the seeds. It was unreal stuff, but it was obsolete to the point they were selling it to anyone that could pay (it may have been "obsolete" in their world, but it still was not affordable).
 
Speaking of unkosher technological advances, I’m thinking of starting a door dash service for backcountry hunters. Inreach me an order and I’ll fly a hot pizza and buffalo wings into your backcountry camp and chuck it out the door with a small parachute. Now how much would you pay for that?

You think I’m joking.
Drone.
 
Leupold BX-4 Rangefinding Binoculars

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