Guest Posted January 7, 2013 Posted January 7, 2013 I was seriously impressed by the FLIR mobile on last night' s "Finding Bigfoot" episode. It seems to me, that that company has a pretty good idea whether bigfoot is real or fake . What I mean is, I am sure in testing their equipment, they have covered a lot of ground. I would think if they had seen anything they would have said something . Unless bigfoot hunters generate a lot of business for them . What do you think?
Guest Posted January 7, 2013 Posted January 7, 2013 (edited) FLIR (Forward Looking Infra-Red) owns the world and the military with their technology. They are the shiznizzle, and they are right across I-5 from where I work! www.flir.com A little education for you here... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLIR_Systems Edited January 7, 2013 by Amahnee
georgerm Posted January 7, 2013 Posted January 7, 2013 Wish I would have bought stock early on. mp to: navigation, search FLIR Systems Type Public (NASDAQ: FLIR) S&P 500 Component Industry Defense, Technology, Security, Law Enforcement Founded 1978 Headquarters Wilsonville, Oregon United States 45°19′14″N 122°45′53″W / 45.32065°N 122.7647°W / 45.32065; -122.7647Coordinates: Click the blue globe to open an interactive map. 45°19′14″N 122°45′53″W / 45.32065°N 122.7647°W / 45.32065; -122.7647 Key people Earl R. Lewis, President, CEO, Chairman Products thermal imaging, infrared Revenue $1.077 billion USD Operating income $284.5 million USD Net income $203.7 million USD Employees 1,943 (2009) Divisions Commercial Vision Systems Government Systems Thermography Website www.flir.com References: financial data is FY2008[1] FLIR Systems is a thermal imaging (infrared) systems manufacturer based in Wilsonville, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1978, the company makes thermal imagers, thermal imager components, as well as larger systems containing thermal imagers along with other sensors, for both commercial and military applications.[2] FLIR is a component of the S&P 500 index with annual revenues in excess of USD 1 billion annually as of 2009. The company has had several accounting scandals concerning back dating of stock options and claims of fraudulent accounting.[3][4] As of 2009, Earl R. Lewis is the chief executive officer, chairman of the board, and president of the company that employs 1,900 people worldwide.[5]
Spader Posted January 7, 2013 Posted January 7, 2013 Geo, you should work for Smith Barney. I hear they are always on the lookout for good analysts.
TD-40 Posted January 7, 2013 Posted January 7, 2013 Great product placement. I suppose we will start seeing some Monster Energy Drinks when they are playing around in the middle of the night, too?
Guest SquatchinNY Posted January 7, 2013 Posted January 7, 2013 One response to the FLIR truck. "Can I have one? Pretty please?"
Guest Posted January 7, 2013 Posted January 7, 2013 I doubt moneymaker is a fan. It would prevent the BFRO from claiming all sorts of activity on their paid outings.
Hammy Posted January 7, 2013 Posted January 7, 2013 I wonder if that FLIR truck could be rented or leased, now that would be awesome to rent for a weekend. Probably expensive but if you had enough people paying it might not be to bad....
Guest wudewasa Posted January 7, 2013 Posted January 7, 2013 Great product placement. I suppose we will start seeing some Monster Energy Drinks when they are playing around in the middle of the night, too? They are already hawking Wendy's products. denialist, Spot on. MM would still come up with excuses as to why sasquatches aren't in the area though. Maybe the team can dress him up like this and put a zagnut bar in his hand, then sit back in the FLIRmobile and watch all his purported squatches come in for a closer look..
Guest Posted January 8, 2013 Posted January 8, 2013 On the night fire Tank and Bradley ranges I frequently had tower duty, which controls the range for safety purposes and for grading also, making sure the weapons oriented safely , no unauthorized vehicles were on the range or in harms way, and also to monitor the hits and misses of the various weapon systems. Tank ranges are huge swaths of real estate with targets up to three or four thousand meters from the firing points. The flir was mounted on the tower and controlled with a joystick, when I ran the flir I would scan the range and I could spot a rat in the grass a couple thousand meters away. It had a high and low power magnification. Suprisingly, there were usually animals on the range during live fire, apparently they were accustomed to the noise and flashes and impacts, the deer would just graze until a vehicle moved their way then casually move away, as would the rabbits, foxes, armadillos lol. The mounted system is certainly the way to find a creature in a somewhat open area. If you get a good high vantage point you can command a view of two or three miles and get a great i.d. on an animal human size or larger for sure. I think Dr. Meldrums' aerial study may include a mounted flir. It will certainly give them some good visuals if its working right.
Guest thermalman Posted January 8, 2013 Posted January 8, 2013 Sounds like you had a very nice thermal unit PB?
Guest MrMudder Posted January 8, 2013 Posted January 8, 2013 You're seriously thinking FLIR tests their equipment on bigfoot? lol. Sorry, but bigfoot-ry is probably .0005% of their sales. Thermal imagery is huge in the construction trade. Wow.
Guest Posted January 8, 2013 Posted January 8, 2013 It was a cool system Thermal. They said it was state of the art and very expensive lol I didnt know anything about the system but learned how to focus and use it for our purposes. Really could see well with it though. I worked two different ranges with the system. I dont know if they are used on the smaller ranges. Someone with your knowledge could probably survey property lines at night with it lol
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