Lonelygirl15

missmadness · Casual Observer Joined: 31 Oct 2006 Posts: 53

I have this for my dog.. I had actually thought of the same thing a while ago..

The only thing is you can feel the device, so wouldn't Bree notice?

unless they put it deeper than it's intended to be...

alex · Casual Observer Joined: 30 Nov 2006 Posts: 124

SharpI · Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 1:08 am Post subject:

Um, I'm pretty sure you can't track microchips long distance. My cat is microchipped, and you have to run a scanner over the animal directly; you can't use the RFID chip to find your lost cat.

I think a tracking device needs a power source (battery) in order to run its GPS and, more importantly, to broadcast its information, and batteries are heavy. Let's say the device is about the size of an iPod shuffle? Such a thing would be impossible to hide in P. Monkey, although Owen and Thor seem possible. If it broadcast continuously the batteries would soon wear out, so it seems likely it would just broadcast one or twice a day and thus might last a couple weeks.

Also, I doubt such a device would not be waterproof. No reason to think of that it could not be.

Using reality as a guide, a tracking device in the car is much much more plausible. The technology is common (OnStar, LoJack) and it can be extremely hard to find (the wiring harness in a car goes too many places).

That said, I do recognize that the LG15 story is fiction... so really, speculate away!

alex · Casual Observer Joined: 30 Nov 2006 Posts: 124

alysaface · Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 1:31 am Post subject: Re: Human Tracking Device!

SharpI · Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 2:18 am Post subject:

Ralf the Dog · Casual Observer Joined: 25 Nov 2006 Posts: 38

A small injectable device would not be GPS capable or be able to transmit data over more than a few hundred meters. The implantable devices use something called RFID. They do not have a power supply. They are powered by microwaves beamed from the receiver.

You could get a GPS device hidden in a stuffed animal to phone home, but it would have a limited lifetime. You could extend the battery life if you had the device turn its self on once a day, look up its location phone home, then go back to sleep.

A device hidden in a car can last as long as the car has power. some commercial devices will let a user cut power to the starter of a car so once it stops it can't be re started. Other devices not available to the public could slowly turn off power to the fuel pump so your car slows down, then stalls out.

alex · Casual Observer Joined: 30 Nov 2006 Posts: 124

what if they get robbed again, p monkey disappears, and opaphid posts videos from p monkey's perspective of bree talking to her (because there was a tiny hidden camera somewhere on p monkey)? i'm not saying i expect that to happen at all, but boy would it be satisfying.

JustAnotherLonelyGirl. · Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 10:38 pm Post subject:

There has also been some speculation that some kind of tracking device was implanted in Bree's brain at too early an age for her to remember.

JustAnotherLonelyGirl. · Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 10:38 pm Post subject:

treefunk · Casual Observer Joined: 15 Oct 2006 Posts: 34

Ditto on what Ralph the Dog said.

Thought you all might be interested:

http://www.lonelygirl15.com/lgpedia/index.php?title=Tracking_device

Luv2Skydive · Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 9:38 pm Post subject:

adritha · Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 4:14 pm Post subject: I had the same Idea

In the first video that i posted on. I had mentioned something about that!!! I'm so glad to find someone else that had that thought.

stuart2004 · The Order of Denderah Joined: 09 Nov 2006 Posts: 2735

Angela · Suspiciously Absent Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 8

I recently watched an episode of... I think Law and Order. Might have been CSI. A woman's husband injected a tiny tracking device into her arm while she was passed out from a drug he had slipped into her drink. It didn't need a battery, because it was like an animal's microchip, with a barcode type thing. He placed a small scanner inside the burglar alarm boxes (roughly arm level) at key points - the studio she worked at with the man he suspected she was cheating on him with, the man's home, and their own home. Then he could retrieve a log of when she entered and left these places, so he could analyze her moves, and know if she wasn't where she said she was going to be. This wouldn't be quite as effective as a GPS tracking device, but it's not too farfetched to say that there might be something like this in Bree, and some kind of alarm to alert the order if she enters her or Daniel's home, or other key places.