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Re:FBI cannot even look at your phone lock screen without a ... by m10i on Saturday May 23, 2020 @02:27AM (#23280458)
Why does the balloon being filled with helium mean it wouldn’t move through the machine on the conveyor belt? Just curious.
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Re:FBI cannot even look at your phone lock screen without a ... by ylyn on Saturday May 23, 2020 @02:34AM (#23280499)
You're kidding, right?

The balloon would float and not stay in contact with the belt.

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Re:FBI cannot even look at your phone lock screen without a ... by fingerlocks on Saturday May 23, 2020 @02:39AM (#23280522)
the charitable interpretation of this question is “Why wasn’t the balloon tied to something that could move through the conveyor belt?”.

Which is a much more reasonable thing to ask.

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Re:FBI cannot even look at your phone lock screen without a ... by m10i on Saturday May 23, 2020 @01:33PM (#23284781)
Although I was very tired when I originally posted this around 2:30 AM, I think my train of thought was that if they got it from outside of the machine in the conveyor belt --> inside of the machine in the conveyor belt --> it's the same mechanism which will get it to pop out of the other end.

But I suppose I was giving too much benefit of the doubt :)

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Re:FBI cannot even look at your phone lock screen without a ... by aetch on Saturday May 23, 2020 @02:35AM (#23280507)
The balloon floats and will not touch the conveyor belt?
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Re:FBI cannot even look at your phone lock screen without a ... by m10i on Saturday May 23, 2020 @06:59PM (#23287366)
Hey thanks for the answer. I can be too literal, so at the time I wasn't sure if that's what he was implying, or if there was some other special property about helium in a balloon in an X-ray machine that I didn't know of.
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