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greetings kind regards . i wish to post a somewhat off-topic question . it concerns snipers . you read that korrektly . today i viewed a film i.e. "Sniper: The White Raven" . in it the snipers attempt w/ some difficulty to locate each other utilizing their gun mounted telescopic sights . it occurred to me this may be a trivial task to perform as it seemed to me infrared sensors/cameras can be utilized to locate the snipers via their own body heat . however if this were in fact the case there would be no such thing as snipers in modern times . so i ask here to the many technically knowledgeable individuals as i find myself slightly fearful of posting to a sniper forum w/ the possibly far-right wingers which may respond . so to be clear and precise "is modern infrared sensor/camera technology sufficient to locate a human lying prone covered w/ camouflage of various kinds and types in various weather day and night conditions ?" thank you kindly
[update] Army's crazy new camouflage can defeat night vision, thermal | We Are The Mighty[^]
modified 18-May-23 19:26pm.
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I hate unstructured body text 
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Yes.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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I believe it is. You can see heat signatures through walls with even consumer level gear.
The best way to tell as always, is to test it. It's probably also the best bet for keeping you off of watchlists for asking the wrong questions on the wrong forums. 
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I would say it depends... there is technology for that yes, but in that field, I suppose that there is so much research to make detection tech (i.e. infrared) better, as there is to make deception tech (i.e. field clothes) better. (Just as the link you posted).
At the end I think too, that it depends a lot on the skill of the implicated people. There will be people doing errors and there will be people using those errors.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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BernardIE5317 wrote: "is modern infrared sensor/camera technology sufficient to locate a human lying prone covered w/ camouflage of various kinds and types in various weather day and night conditions ?"
Yes but that doesn't mean it is unlimited. Rain really impacts those.
You might want to also consider the limited field of view. If you are zoomed into the corner of the building the person you are seeking might be climbing into a truck around front to escape and you will not see that at all.
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Thankfully, a kind soul on YouTube performed the research for me.
No, you cannot detect moles in the ground with infrared!
It may not have been military grade hardware.
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actually it may be possible as infrared can be utilized to "see" through walls via the warming of the walls by the heat source behind . isn't that how the Iraqi tanks were destroyed by the Warthogs as they hid under the sand .
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It should be Ignoble.
Still easy to hear what you mean.
We should fear all but we should learn how to research first.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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The competition for the keyboard has become quite fierce. Also jealous of the mouse, and the attention it gets.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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All that, and also stealing my office chair 
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Get her a dog. Preferably a big one. She will immediately forget about the piano.
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Sooo... you want your cat to become a twelve inch pianist?
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Three dinosaurs are running across the desert when they stumble across a magic lamp.
They rub it, and a genie appears.
"I have three wishes, so I'll give one to each of you," the genie announces.
The first dinosaur thinks hard.
"Alright," he says, "I'll have a big, juicy, piece of meat."
Instantly, the biggest, juiciest piece of meat he'd ever seen appears in front of him.
Not to be outdone, the second dinosaur thinks even harder.
"I know! I'll have a shower of meat!"
Immediately, huge pieces of meat rain down around him.
The third dinosaur, certainly not to be outdone, thinks harder than the previous dinosaurs.
"I've got it!" he cries, "I want a MEATIER shower!"
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chat bots learn from that which they are provided for training . why not provide only the scholarly publications of respected scientists and engineers . perhaps such will learn to think like Einstein Feynman etc. perhaps NobelBot . why not . the mind boggles at the possibilities .
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I doubt this would work well. By the time scholars become "respected", their theories have gained acceptance. Until then, some of them have many detractors and wouldn't qualify as "respected". In other cases, they just suddenly appear, like Einstein. And in others, the accepted wisdom is wrong, so using "respected" sources would perpetuate groupthink. And in economics, the chatbot would often regurgitate a lot of nonsense or simply crash after getting seriously confused. 
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i assume all the many Nobel Prize winning scientists are currently respected . if not so then their work can be ignored . perhaps the sum of all their published work which must be in the many thousands of articles both serious and for popular consumption is sufficient to train a bot but i of course do not know . of course econimics winners would not be permitted as it is a dismall science . i would be surprised this has not yet been undertaken . perhaps we will hear of it soon .
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With a "NobelBot" you might get explosive situations 
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Serendipity will then likely get ruled out.
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ನನಗೆ ಅರ್ಥವಾಗುತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ. ದಯವಿಟ್ಟು "ಸೆರೆಂಡಿಪಿಟಿ" ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಇನ್ನಷ್ಟು ವಿವರಿಸಿ. ದಯವಿಟ್ಟು ಧನ್ಯವಾದಗಳು.
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Wow. Thank you for replying in my favourite language Kannada.
On second thoughts, perhaps serendipity will fostered by AI. Giving completely out of the box ideas, in totally different fields. One of my friends told me that ChatGPT is a game changer in the automobile industry.
However, coming to Nobel prize, not sure how effective AI will be in Fundamental research as against Applied research.
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