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discostar23
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 Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 5:05 pm Post subject: backscatters (new airport security) |
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Hey
I was reading an article about these machines which x-ray your entire body. Has anyone experienced one of these yet? |
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ilovebdt
Joined: 03 Jun 2005
Location: Nr Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 5:32 pm Post subject: |
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Sounds dangerous for pregnant ladies.
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mindmetoo
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| Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Isn't it a kind of CT-like machine? It's like a screened walk way you stroll down? I thought they've had these in operation in the Orlando airport for a while. |
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rothkowitz
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luvnpeas
Joined: 03 Aug 2006
Location: somewhere i have never travelled
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 1:49 am Post subject: |
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| ilovebdt wrote: |
| Sounds dangerous for pregnant ladies. |
Oh. come now, X-rays are good for your health! 
Digital Penetration
Invasion of the naked body scanners
By William Saletan
Posted Saturday, March 3, 2007, at 7:32 AM ET
Psssst. Want to see Susan Hallowell naked? Look at the Feb. 24 New York Times. She's on Page A10.
Hallowell runs the Transportation Security Administration's research lab. Four years ago, she volunteered to be scanned by a backscatter X-ray machine, which sees through clothing. She was wearing a skirt and blazer. But in the picture, she's as good as nude.
Now it's your turn.
CONT'D ...
http://www.slate.com/id/2160977?GT1=9231 |
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happeningthang
Joined: 26 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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You just know this is going to set off a whole new strain of fetish, nude celebrity web sites.
Amazing technology. It's pretty invasive though, but as long as it's used as an alternative to pat downs, and strip searches, with travellers being given the options to pick from, I don't have any real problem with it.
If they set it up so that EVERYONE has to pass through it, that's another matter. |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 6:01 am Post subject: |
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Invention clearly proving once again to be the mother of necessity.
Stay tuned ( surely more to come )
Mmmmmmmmm ... X-RAYS. |
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