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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."
What invasion of privacy is going to happen after that event?
I'm not sure but I suspect that K-Y Jelly will be involved.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
I'm not sure but I suspect that K-Y Jelly will be involved.
If you're lucky... I think you'll get the K-Y Jelly in first class only...
Move Sig. For great justice.
the lies and paranoia that have been eating away at us like a cancer need to be repurposed toward actually helping us.
Or, you know, we could just stop lying. (:
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)
Rape is scan? Okay then, that explains everything.
Would you make your 5-year-old child smoke a cigarette?
Maybe. Are all of his friends doing it?
"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right" - Salvor Hardin
I've heard they are more effective than a sword even.
0.4 cubic meters is 400 liters. Approximating the density of a human as that of water, that's 400 kilograms, or 890 pounds. I think your average passenger is somewhat less than 890 pounds. Oh, you were talking about the United States? Nevermind.
The long lines and endless searching of passengers is to break down your will so that when the plane is turned into a weapon you will simply welcome death because you realize you don't have to worry about flying ever again.
Help fight poverty: Punch a poor person.
For what it's worth, holding up an airplane with nothing more than an ink pen would be so badass.
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Too bad they're not digging through comments on /. all day in order to find this one, totally-not-spammed comment on the matter.
So my options are a scan with a machine that has unknown health effects OR having a strange man give me an airport massage?
I happen to be a bisexual and I have an authority fetish, so I think that I'm rather priviledged here.
Don't get rid of them yet, I haven't had time to try any of my ideas out.
* Using metallic paint to draw a glock 9mm on my skin as if it were in a shoulder holster.
* Drawing a massive, 1 - 2 foot long, penis down my thigh in metallic paint.
* (my favorite) Shaving my head bald, drawing a full Terminator style robot endoskeleton on my back, in metallic paint, including the skull on the back of my head and letting my hair grow back enough to cover it before going to the airport.
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The fact that we soon may not be able to board an airplane without a government bureaucrat looking at our cocks is ample proof that the terrorists won.
i play by my own rules, and i play for points. the more bureaucrats i can get looking at my cock at once, the better. 20, and i win.
Please stop stalking me, bro.