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Ep 186: Weighing Cats, Slamming VU Meters, Slimmer Skimmers, and Clean Air on the Cheap

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Finding Unexploded Ordnance

Land mines are planted underground, and the ones that are meant to target people can't tell if the person is a civilian or a military combatant. The question is, how do we find them and get rid of them? And that's what this article is partly about. A lot of the ld mining, which is what they call going out and looking for land mines, is done by dogs. Ad dogs have sensitive enough smells so that they can actually figure out where they are and show you. There are other techniques like running basically big ploughs over the ground, attached to a tank,. So that when you do blow up the land mine, it doesn't get you. One

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