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"People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research. I just enjoy reading the stuff, and some of it sticks in my mind and fits into the stories."
- Frederik Pohl
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| Sniffer Robot | ||
| A small robot that gathers odors from a crime scene for analysis. |
At this point in the film, an electronics engineer has been killed with a unique kind of bullet. How can the Runaway squad find out more?
The answer: the sniffer robot.
(Sniffer Robot from Runaway)
| "It's picking up diphenyl compounds and tetrahydrocarbons. The tetras are explosives and the diphenyls are solid propellant like those used in rockets. How big did you say these missiles are?"
[Ramsay gestures -between thumb and forefinger] "About that big." |
| From Runaway,
by Michael Crichton. Published by Tri-Star Pictures in 1985 Additional resources -
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Thanks to the sniffer robot, some of the chemical compounds found on the body provide useful information about the smart bullet. Here's a side view of the sniffer robot.
(Sniffer Robot side view)
The mechanical hound from Ray Bradbury's 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451 was also able to detect scents.
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