Metal Detector Chip

[Eugene Hill]

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So it's the lead-up to what might be World War III and the enemy is kidnapping and implanting mind-control chips into our people, one by one, to turn them into sleeper agents, to all attack en masse when the signal is given. The victims who have been chipped remember the whole ordeal and try and reach out for help, but nobody will believe their crazy-sounding conspiracy babbling. After a while though, when enough people start turning up with the same plight, their claims start to be taken seriously and an investigation begins. The problem is, they can't quite find the chip in anyone!

The obvious/dumb solution, a metal detector, wouldn't work because, this setting being based on the real-world, there's no iron to be detected in the silicon chip wafers or from the precious metal traces on a PCB. And plus, transistors these days are TIIINY! The chip itself may be so small that it would be difficult, if not impossible, for any external scan to detect it, simply due to lack of resolution. The chip can receive commands though, therefore it can be assumed that it it can also reply too, broadcasting detectable (though potentially very weak, possibly intermittent, and on an unknown frequency) electromagnetic waves.

The victims make themselves available to undergo any kind of non-invasive test or process to help locate the chip in their bodies (so no exploratory brain surgery to find it). What kind of scans or other kind of test could have a chance at locating this within one's body, given the size, material composition, and other real-world constraints? CAT scan? MRI? X-ray? Something outside the box? And for the scans that wouldn't work (like the metal detector), bonus points for explaining why.

X-Rays have been successfully used to scan a single atom. There is no chip that can be manufactured today that can't be detected by X-Ray... if you have the right X-ray. But, to be frank, a chip that could do anything more than binary math would be trivially detected by hospital-grade X-rays.

An MRI is a metal detector. That's why you can't have any metal in your body or on your person when one is performed. A simple metal detector is using an inductive coil to detect fluctuations in a predictable magnetic field to identify the presence of metals. A Magnetic Resonance Imager is a metal detector on world-class steroids. It would rip ferrous metal out of your body. But it would also trivially detect the presence of non-ferrous metal and, to make a point, anything that doesn't have the expected density of the area being scanned.

A computerized tomography scan, better known as a CT or CaT scan, is nothing more than a series of X-ray images and some high quality software. In other words, from a practical perspective, a CT scan is an X-ray.

What all these scanning technologies do (and I'm simplifying), is test for density changes in the body. We know what the "average" or "expected" densities are so we can program software to point at an unexpected change in density and tell the operator, "huh, what's this?" The reason we have skilled analysts is that when all you have to work with is density it's beyond possible to have false positives.

And so what you might want to do is ask yourself, "what materials can I use to create my mind control chip that have densities similar to the area of the body where it's implanted?" What's cool about that question is that you could take advantage of contour changes in the brain where recorded densities are a bit flexible due to the inherent limitations in the technology, like the angles used to take the pictures (and that's one reason why MRIs use a rotating emitter).

In other words, I believe that with some creativity, a believable chip could be expressed in your world that would be difficult, but not impossible to detect, thereby allowing you to maintain an air of mystery to meet the needs of narrative necessity.

Once the signal is detected, a copy is made Now we have something we know to look for, from there, we make a very sensitive bit of equipment to look for that thing, and then through multiple repetitions, find it.

And by that I mean this: We can make the assumptions that the chip would be located in approximately the same location for all victims. So, we have a group of volunteers who think they've been chipped, we start scanning them, once we get a hit in a specific region, we start scanning that region, once we get a hit in that region of the body, we start scanning an area, once we have a confirmation on an area - then we book the surgery.

So for example - we get a hit off the left arm - that gives us a region. Then we scan the left arm intensely, we get a hit just below the elbow - that gives us an area - then we go in and have a look.

Repeat the process as neccessary N number of times to get closer and closer. Also - once the first one is discovered and we can see what it is/interfaces with, we can then make educated guesses about where it would be on someone else.

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Update: I'm going to a country that primarily deals in cash. I will be wearing a money belt under my clothes with cash. I also wanted to keep my credit cards there. This is why I want to know if the chip in them will set off the metal detectors.

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Ok, my husband and I are in about $25,000 in debt, He lost his job so he gets unemployment which the amount doesn't even cover all the bills, I don't have an education (I do take classes to get my G.E.D.,they take up my entire day; literally. I will be finished with it on May. 31,2012),so I am currently unable to work. We don't go out to eat at all(strict diets and we hate people to serve us).We don't have any extra expenses because our families pay for mine and my husbands cell phone,house phone, cable, and my husbands car insurance bills. His check is gone as soon as we get it so we had to get food stamps and medicaid just to help keep food in the house for our son and ourselves. I can't get a loan for school to go to college when I finish, I have been told that if I file for bankruptcy then I won't be able to get a grant,by a friend. I hate being in debt, having to rely on family to pay our bills , and not ever having any money,even though I am grateful to have a family who is willing to help us out when we need it. I have done a lot of research on this matter and even went to 2 different financial planners who have both said to file for bankruptcy is our best option. We own an ugly old trailer(only worth $2500 and 1 automobile worth $3500, with a initial property value of $3100 so every thing we have is safe from the property liquidation process). Oh yeah did I mention we are expecting another child? So I have advised a plan: Plan:( we usually receive $5000-$6000 in income taxes FED and $687 State, Husbands pay check $1000 monthly even) 1) File for bankruptcy after I get my income taxes.(Filing for bankruptcy can cost in between $500-$2000per person if filing separate or $700-$2500 if filed together and we have someone who owes us money who is going to pay for out credit counseling courses and test, still no where close to what he owe us).We are filing it together.We would be filing for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy. 2)My husband and I would then open up a secure loan at the amount of $1200 each that has a 6.9% interest rate and fees. 3)Now that all of the numbers have been ran, it is going to cost $1304.11 per person to pay off the secured loan ( I figure we just open up a savings account, each, with the loan and put in $104.11 per person to cover the cost) and make automatic payments from said savings account for 1 full year. As I am sure every one knows the longer the on time payment history is the better credit rating you will receive. ( I figure we will need to do this for 5 years) 4)Take my husbands pay check and open 2 secured credit cards per person for $250 each with an interest rate at 1.5% .(only so low because it is secured, We both have terrible credit) 5)Turn around and pay our monthly bills with the card( bills and monthly hygiene products equal up to $902 monthly without paying off debt,we won't have any more.) 6)Turn around again and pay off the cards with his pay check (our parents each said that they will give us $500 to pay for our 1st months bills free and clear as long as I finish school , so $1000 cash total.) 7)Do this for 5 years while putting the released funds from the secured loan in a separate saving account at the end of each year for a house down payment($6,000 plus interest) 8)Now 1 year after we set this up we will have 2 children, 1 will be 6 the other will be almost a 1.I will be finished with my G.E.D. education, Already started college( I found out the you can still get grants if you file for bankruptcy, they even have grants for people and student who have filed for bankruptcy,so my friend was wrong.)So now I can start saving for my children college,I chose the Gerber Life College Plan, I can pay $1206.12 annually from my income taxes so that they will have a fair amount to get them started(I am only getting $10,000 per child). 9)Still 1 year after plan started, use the some of the money form my taxes to open up a life insurance policy for the family, I chose 1 for $100,000 and is $132.09 a year($25,000 per person). 10)Still 1 year after plan started, put the rest of our income taxes (about $3007.68) every year for 4 year in our saving account for the house down payment(a total of $12030.72 plus interest) Ok so about 6 years into the plan we will have about $20,000 in savings for a home, a credit score of at least 700 FISO (each), a good size life insurance policy for the family, a college graduate, A working college fund for our children, and an eye out for a modest home. So my question is, Will my plan work if we stick to it? Oh yeah take in affect my hubby isn't going to be unemployed forever and neither will I."

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