Nude-O-Scope May Get "G" Rating

Nice advancement, from a privacy perspective. However, I'm still not going to let them radiate me. I work in a hospital x ray department and know the precautions we take to avoid exposure to radiation. I think those who work these machines should be required to wear manometers to monitor their accumulated exposure.

Sadly, it seems, at some airports, TSA doesn't care about the rules. A few fliers recently reported at O'hare that they had three choices: 1) Go through the nude-0-scope, 2) leave the airport, 3) have the police called over and they'd be arrested. And supposedly a supervisor backed this up.....until TSA is forced to follow their own rules, we'll have to live with what they insist if we want to fly. Especially since it's been proven that if you complain, all you get is a form letter telling you how they are protecting you from terrorists. It's only been through actual lawsuits that the TSA has made changes.

Nice advancement, from a privacy perspective. However, I'm still not going to let them radiate me. I work in a hospital x ray department and know the precautions we take to avoid exposure to radiation. I think those who work these machines should be required to wear manometers to monitor their accumulated exposure.

Nice advancement, from a privacy perspective. However, I'm still not going to let them radiate me. I work in a hospital x ray department and know the precautions we take to avoid exposure to radiation. I think those who work these machines should be required to wear manometers to monitor their accumulated exposure.

Don't forget that the average hospital X-ray gives you a dose of radiation anywhere from about 30 to 700 ?Sv of radiation. The backscatter whole body scanners deliver an average of .15 ?Sv per shot, about 1/200th of the lowest dose you'd get from an X-ray machine.

True, the amount of radiation is not high. But the point is, when I get an Xray, it presumably has a health benefit, so that I can balance the risks and benefits in deciding whether to get this particular Xray. When I get scanned, I'm getting the risk of radiation exposure that I believe is of no benefit to me. Not to mention the incidental aggregated exposure of the workers near the machine...

As you fly at 40,000 feet, you're also exposed to more radiation than you are if you keep your feet on the ground....but that doesn't stop us from flying....

So, I'm gonna get a baseball cap? mkay...

I think that was a good compromise to keep the security but respect all the understandable privacy concerns.

Thats a relief. Regarding this: Machines now at airports are monitored by a TSA employee in a separate room, to prevent passengers and security workers at the checkpoint from viewing the full-body image that sees through undergarments. Not true when I went through one in May. I got an eyeful of, well, me, right in the same area as all the other passengers!

Yes, a relief. I guess now I can stop worrying about the pre-vacation diet and extra sit-ups. :)

Dang! I was going to get a prosthetic extension and "shake it" like a Polaroid picture for show. Give them something to talk about...