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Scientists Question Safety of New Airport Scanners
An anonymous reader sends this quote from a story at NPR about the accelerated deployment of new scanning machines at airports:
"Fifty-two of these state-of-the-art machines are already scanning passengers at 23 US airports. By the end of 2011, there will be 1,000 machines and two out of every three passengers will be asked to step into one of the new machines for a six-second head-to-toe scan before boarding. About half of these machines will be so-called X-ray back-scatter scanners. They use low-energy X-rays to peer beneath passengers' clothing. That has some scientists worried. ... The San Francisco group thinks both the machine's manufacturer, Rapiscan, and government officials have miscalculated the dose that the X-ray scanners deliver to the skin — where nearly all the radiation is concentrated. The stated dose — about .02 microsieverts, a medical unit of radiation — is averaged over the whole body, members of the UCSF group said in interviews. But they maintain that if the dose is calculated as what gets deposited in the skin, the number would be higher, though how much higher is unclear."
Fail.
The last people who wanted to build a jobs program were the Bush administration.
Fail.
We'd blow up white people too if they were the ones shouting "Jihad!" and strapping C4 to their children.
We'd blow up white people too if they were the ones shouting "Jihad!" and strapping C4 to their children.
So watch out, Teabaggers.
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how about this for airport security: stop blowing up brown people and start working with countries other than china, canada, and mexico to ensure we're better global citizens...
To ensure *we're* better global citizens?
How about the little brown cocksuckers be better global citizens and stop blowing us up first? Then we'd be more amenable to leaving them to do whatever the fuck they want in their own damn countries. When they export their jihad to us they're going to have to expect that we're not going to take kindly to it and will most likely pay their countries a visit and blow lots of shit right-the-fuck up to non-verbally communicate just how fucking unhappy we are.
Both backscatter X-ray and millimeter wave scanners cause cancer
False. I know quite a bit about RF and millimeter wave is harmless. Just the typical american content-free knee jerk response of don't understand = scared. Go ahead, just try to provide any logical explanation other than "I don't understand physics therefore mm-wave must be evil".
X-ray, in comparison, is not good for you.
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
Why don't you just go kill yourself, fascist shit-slick?