Imagine if you will that you went to your local grocery store and you were
looking for some bacon. That sounds like something I would do.
And you have a general preference of how you want your bacon. I don't know
about you, but I like my bacon extra petty.
But when you go back to the freezer aisles and you find where this bacon's at,
you see that there's a sign that says bacon and a bunch of cardboard boxes that
are closed and taped and you can't see anything inside of them.
Now it's up to you to determine which package of bacon that you're going to
select for your purchase and later cooking.
But you're left with a problem. You can't see inside the boxes and you don't
know which one it is that you want or you're going to pick.
So you go with your gut and you start picking one and the first box that you
pick up has muffins.
That's right muffins because you weren't able to see inside the box or at least
get an idea of what potentially was inside the box.
And that's where scanning comes into play at because if we're able to scan even
if it's just a surface level idea of a scan,
we might have been able to avoid the muffins and get that crispy bacon. So how
would we scan in this situation? Well, there's a couple of different ways.
First, you can actually go through and look and see the actual boxes themselves
. You can identify which ones are cold and which ones are warm.
You can lay you don't have to touch the box, but you can just hover your hand
right above, pretend this hand box and you have put your hand like this. You
could feel that cold air coming off the box.
Why is that important? Well, that's because bacon is usually chilled when it's
sold in the grocery store, especially when you're back in the refrigerator dial
s.
And muffins are usually at the temperature, so you shouldn't feel any kind of
cold air coming off of the actual box itself.
That right there is a passive scan of the actual target that we're trying to
get a hold of and understand what it is that we're actually looking for.
Now past that, for the box example, all you would be able to do is just take a
look at them and see if the box was the appropriate size because we didn't
mention it.
Did we? Well, muffins, let's say they come in a smaller box and bacon usually
comes in a package that's a foot long, not too thick, not that thick and about
wide.
And so if there's a box that was shaped around the different particular items,
you'd be able to look at that shape of the box without touching and say that
might or might not be vacant.
So the ones for the muffins would be a square box as an example.
And you say, nah, that's not make it.
So again, we're using our passive ability to be able to go through and conduct
a scan on potential targets when in an organization, in this case, the grocery
store.
Now, when we start moving into a more active scanning, we can actually pick up
the box and shake it.
That box did not sound like bacon, but you get the general idea as a muffin
would sound a little bit more fluffy than a package of crispy bacon, uncooked.
And that's another thing. As you're going through the boxes, you're trying to
figure out if that bacon's actually up to spec of what it is that you
particularly want.
Or are there any defects on the actual packaging of the bacon's and maybe even
the muffins and throughout this skill, we're going to take a look at utilizing
scanning to be able to go through and identify the bacon within that grocery
store.