TSA Makes Grandma Take Off Adult Diaper... (person, safety, information)
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Millimeter wave body scanners aren't much of a concern to anyone, it's the backscatter technology that produces a clearer image, but also is the subject to the concerns with radiation. I'm not a radiologist, and there seems to be a lot of propaganda on both sides of the issue, so I'll reseve judgement on that for now.
Personally, I don't mind if someone that can't see me physically views the image produced, but I can recognize that others will take issue with it and that's fine. It's another good point of debate (tests have been done using a generic model of a human instead of your actual body, but so far it's returned about an 80% false positive rate.)
Nonetheless, let's take that list and use it. Now, please show me how many flights take off daily, around the world so that we may do a little bit of math and come up with percentages.
If it is significant enough to worry about then sure, otherwise might as well put away the cell phone too.
Actually no need to put it away, just use a hands free device and keep it away from your body.
Anything that is enough to see the bones in your body (which the backscatters do) is an x-ray. That's a lot of radiation to be exposed to for no good reason when there are other safer screening methods that don't require sexual molestation.
Nonetheless, let's take that list and use it. Now, please show me how many flights take off daily, around the world so that we may do a little bit of math and come up with percentages.
I know it's a fun kneejerk reaction to discredit something simply from being from Wikipedia, but that's actually a fairly well compiled list. So did you have an actual factual problem with it or were you just spewing empty phrases?
And regardless, what's your point? I've never been in a serious car wreck but I still buckle up every time.
Anything that is enough to see the bones in your body (which the backscatters do) is an x-ray. That's a lot of radiation to be exposed to for no good reason when there are other safer screening methods that don't require sexual molestation.
I understand what an x-ray is, thanks. What I don't agree with is that it this type of x-ray application is a lot of radiation.
You also don't understand what sexual molestation is.
I understand what an x-ray is, thanks. What I don't agree with is that it this type of x-ray application is a lot of radiation.
You also don't understand what sexual molestation is.
Having a stranger touch your sexual organs outside of for medical reasons or unless based on probable cause is molestation. Wanting to get on an airplane and being passenger #18 that day is not probable cause. Do you want your 12 year old daughter groped in her privates?
These days the medical community is asking women with clean mammograms to cut back to every other year due to concerns about radiation. And you think that adding any extra radiation that can see your bones is OK?
Do you fly weekly? Are you OK with getting hit with an unnecessary x-ray twice a week? What if it was your wife who was pregnant? Do you think it's OK for your unborn child to be x-rayed twice a week?
Having a stranger touch your sexual organs outside of for medical reasons or unless based on probable cause is molestation.
Like I said, you don't understand the definition of sexual molestation.
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These days the medical community is asking women with clean mammograms to cut back to every other year due to concerns about radiation. And you think that adding any extra radiation that can see your bones is OK?
Do you know how much radiation comes from a medical x-ray versus an airport scanner? You are eating a giant chocolate sunday then worrying about the weight gain from the additional cherry on top.
"Screening at an airport X-ray scanner produces .02 microsieverts of radiation. But remember, you are only getting them because you are going on a flight. Nearly everyone forgets that when you fly, there is also ionizing radiation exposure. In fact, on a typical transcontinental flight at 30,000 feet you will be exposed to 20 microsieverts of radiation. That is 1,000 times the dose you receive from the scanner.
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The amount of background radiation a person is exposed to in a normal day is the equivalent of 85 screenings in a TSA scanner," Gould said. Another scientist, Professor Fergus Coakley, chief of the abdominal imaging section at the UCSF radiology department agreed. "Being worried about the scan on the way to the plane ride where you're getting extra radiation is bogus," he said."
Also = mammogram is between 700 and 3000 microsieverts, depending on your source.
Do you fly weekly? Are you OK with getting hit with an unnecessary x-ray twice a week? What if it was your wife who was pregnant? Do you think it's OK for your unborn child to be x-rayed twice a week?
1. Sometimes, depending on work
2. Yes, because I don't believe it is a significant amount
3. Yes, because I don't believe it is a significant amount
4. Yes, because I don't believe it is a significant amount
Are you okay with flying at all? Watching TV? Using a cell phone?
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