NationStates Jolt Archive


Airport scanning technology and your safety.

PsychoticDan
23-01-2007, 00:17
Do airport scanners really make you feel safe? How hard is it to hide something from one of them? This video shows how far the technology has come and also some of the problems scanners still have.

Click Here. (http://www.break.com/index/fart_caught_on_infrared_camera.html)
Snafturi
23-01-2007, 00:32
They don't make me feel safe. They make me paranoid. There's this clear plastic box at PDX that they shove random people in and it blows air at them. I don't know what they are detecting, but they don't appear to give people much choice. I watched several people be confusedly ushered into them and then freak out as air was blown at them. They were then released from the box without explanation. I never asked because I was afraid I'd be "randomly" selected for the box.
Morganatron
23-01-2007, 00:36
They don't make me feel safe. They make me paranoid. There's this clear plastic box at PDX that they shove random people in and it blows air at them. I don't know what they are detecting, but they don't appear to give people much choice. I watched several people be confusedly ushered into them and then freak out as air was blown at them. They were then released from the box without explanation. I never asked because I was afraid I'd be "randomly" selected for the box.

They have those at Phoenix, too. I refused to move ahead in line until I was told what they were. The TSA guy informed me they were used to search for explosives hidden in clothing. Pfuh.
PsychoticDan
23-01-2007, 00:37
They don't make me feel safe. They make me paranoid. There's this clear plastic box at PDX that they shove random people in and it blows air at them. I don't know what they are detecting, but they don't appear to give people much choice. I watched several people be confusedly ushered into them and then freak out as air was blown at them. They were then released from the box without explanation. I never asked because I was afraid I'd be "randomly" selected for the box.

Yeah. The guy in the video had some air thing going on, too. Too bad fartsniffage doesn't come around anymore. He'd probably have somethinig to say about this.
Sel Appa
23-01-2007, 01:19
I always wondered what flatulence looked like...
Lunatic Goofballs
23-01-2007, 08:27
They don't make me feel safe. They make me paranoid. There's this clear plastic box at PDX that they shove random people in and it blows air at them. I don't know what they are detecting, but they don't appear to give people much choice. I watched several people be confusedly ushered into them and then freak out as air was blown at them. They were then released from the box without explanation. I never asked because I was afraid I'd be "randomly" selected for the box.

That's the game show. :)
Christmahanikwanzikah
23-01-2007, 08:28
Do airport scanners really make you feel safe?

Do TSA guards taking scissors away from little children make me feel any safer? No.

Though I do understand the air-blowing thing...
Delator
23-01-2007, 08:30
Do airport scanners really make you feel safe?

Not particularly...but they look nice.
Cabra West
23-01-2007, 08:37
Do airport scanners really make you feel safe?

Nope. They just annoy me no end. Lastest EU regulations say you can't take more than 100 ml of liquid through the scanners, and all gels and cosmetics need to be in a clear, resealable plastic bag... :rolleyes:
It was fun at christmas standing in those endless lines, this time made even more endless by waiting for people trying to gulp down those two bottles of fizzy drinks they just bought....