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Q. On a cold winter day, your employer sends you out to make some photographs of an inhabited house that can be used to determine where the house has poor heat-insulation. He offers you to take one of four tools. Which one do you pick: a radio telescope, an infrared camera, an off-the-shelf digital camera, or an UV camera? Justify your answer.

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Q. On a cold winter day, your employer sends you out to make some photographs of an inhabited house that can be used to determine where the house has poor heat-insulation. He offers you to take one of four tools. Which one do you pick: a radio telescope, an infrared camera, an ...

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