Posted on 11/13/2010 11:30:47 AM PST by Citizen X_Area 51
everybody under 13 and over 60 should just pee on them, can you imagine, lol
“This whole X-ray radiation and millimeter wave radiation crap is a bunch of hooey insofar that all the government can say for millimeter wave technology is that it is ‘safe’ according to ‘experts’ and that it is unknown about the long term effects of repeated X-ray dosing.”
You can get as much as 660 micro-REMS per hour in flight, with 250 micro REMS per hour being a low average. That’s at least ten times ground level background.
If the xray scanners are harmful with their less-than-a-second microrem scan, airline flight is many many times more dangerous.
http://www.hps.org/publicinformation/ate/faqs/commercialflights.html
Plus, lots of airline radiation is heavy particles and neutrons, not just low energy x-rays.
“2. Exposure to radiation is harmful, and frequent business travelers are going to end up getting a lot of exposure.”
See my #62, and the link. Frequent fliers get lots of radiation, from flying at altitude. The scanners do not add appreciably to that, they are hundreds of times lower in terms of energy and dose rate.
what we need are different airlines. the rich do it, hiring their own. People like richard Branson might could figure it out. Wonder how we could do that
Daily regular charter flights.
Thanks for the information in post #62.
What is the radiation level for the full-body back-scatter scan?
I’ve flown charters and once or twice a private plane. To get to the plane, you have to go into a secured area, and yes, I got scanned, and my bags zapped. This was before whole-body scans were all over, but I went through th magnetometer and pat-down routine.
I suppose really rich people have their own strips for their Gulfstreams, but if you fly out of LAX or Albuquerque on a charter, security is pretty much the same.
I bet they’d figure it out tho with the sheer volume of people who would fly
It is limited by law to 25 micro-REM. Background in many places is 20-60 micro-REM, if you live near me it’s about 20, in Denver it’s more, and if you live in a thorium or uranium rich area, might be 70-80 microREM.
The 25 uR was set to that if you flew a thousand times a year, you’d get 25 milliREM.
You get 25 uR in about 50 minutes of most flights, unless you are going on a polar flight (NY to Tokyo) during a solar flare (that can actually fog film [remember film?] and the airline lies and blames it on the baggage xray [so you won’t be afraid of radiation dose while flying]).
Thanks for the good information!
Geez, I was ready to start selling exposure badges at the airports, and lining up specialist doctors and lawyers to recommend for diagnosis, treatment and law suits against Janet and The Usurper. LOL
lol You still can! Public perception of radiation hazards is way out of proportion to the actual threat, and this is seen in tort case outcomes.
If someone claims to have gotten cancer from an airport scannr, the government’s “no threshold” “linear response” policies will pretty much guarantee a payout.
LOL!!!!!
We heard one guy, I think a reverend, talk at a July 4th tea party in the Phoenix area one time. He had resisted them — not physically — just cited the Constitution (4th Amendment is it?) and wouldn’t answer their questions. They pulled him out of the car and onto the ground, he had a face full of shards of glass. And scars to prove it....
I just canceled a business trip for six people this week. No need to try to demand the employees travel and get strip searched. This isn’t a prison nation and we all will have nothing to do with it. Let Boeing, Airbus and the airlines do without our patronage.
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