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IP: more on "X-ray specs" airport scanners see you naked
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 13:02:56 -0500
------ Forwarded Message From: gep2 () terabites com Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 12:58:14 -0600 To: farber () cis upenn edu Subject: Re: IP: "X-ray specs" airport scanners see you naked ["red hot bullets" comment about X-rays] Moot point, since unless I'm very much mistaken, these full-body scanners do NOT use X-rays at all... the confusion comes from the "X-ray specs" term which is ANALOGOUS to the type of image produced. Such a scanner is in any case a GREAT deal less intrusive than a body cavity search, which is the alternative for finding concealed objects of aggression. I'll also point out in passing that travelling by airplane on ONE cross-country flight exposes the body to as much additional (natural) radiation as living a LIFETIME just outside the security fence of a commercial nuclear power plant. Those who are excessively paranoid about minute and occasional radiation exposure probably shouldn't fly at all. :-)) Gordon Peterson http://personal.terabites.com/ Support the Anti-SPAM Amendment! Join at http://www.cauce.org/ 12/19/98: Partisan Republicans scornfully ignore the voters they "represent". 12/09/00: the date the Republican Party took down democracy in America. ------ End of Forwarded Message For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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