How do you feel about being seen naked in airports?

[Romy]

Some of the Hispanic women I know would probably take a deep breath and go for it, but their menfolk would have an absolute MELTDOWN!

I know my Hispanic husband doesn't like it. :rofl1:Someone pinched by bum at the store once and I have never seen him so angry. Good thing the guy ran away before I saw his face, or Robert would have ripped his head off.

Personally, I hate the idea. But the more I think about it, it'll probably be sort of like being at the doctor's office. I imagine whoever is working the machines is going to get desensitized to computer nudity pretty dang quickly. On the other hand, the mom in me wants to rip the throats out of anyone x raying through Aurelia's clothes.

 

[theresa92841]

I can't help wishing that it was the norm. Think about the clothing I wouldn't have to pack when I travel. No carryon luggage beside my toothbrush.

 

[drmom777]

I am flying to Dallas tomorrow. I guess I need not worry about traveling clothes. What a great way to make traveling easier.

 

[Lilavati]

Just happened to think. What about people whose religion or cultural background require body modesty? I mean, most nuns (those that are left, anyway) don't wear actual habits any more, the way they used to, but they do wear very modest clothing. How would they feel about appearing naked in these circumstances? We have a small Muslim community in this area--and no, they don't come equipped with horns and tails or strap-on bombs. These women don't wear face coverings, but they do cover their hair and wear long skirts. I doubt they'd take kindly to having outsiders see them naked. Now that I think of it, there's a small Hassidic community a couple of miles thataway, and their women dress pretty much the same. :lol-sign: I don't know if they're likely to travel by plane, but I doubt they'd take this kindly.

Some of the Hispanic women I know would probably take a deep breath and go for it, but their menfolk would have an absolute MELTDOWN!

This is not a good idea. Too many cans of worms just lined up waiting to be opened.

You know, I thought the same thing. The people that most folks most want to go through the scanner are people who are religiously prohibited (really both men and women, the Koran demands both be modest) from going through it. Not to mention other people of other faiths who would find it immodest and sinful, and people who would find it so degrading that it would be unbearable.

 

[release the hounds]

It bounces but yes, it goes in straight lines. When I worked in a clinic, the doctor I worked for thought it best that I not work there while I was pregnant, even if my duties in the x-ray department could be dropped for the time being. I had other duties for which I was trained besides x-ray. He told me that there are secondary rays throughout the office and it may put my baby at risk. I tend to trust my doctor as well as the senior radiologist at the Virginia Mason Clinic in Seattle, who was my brother in law over someone I don't know on the Internet. Regardless, I think it's deplorable that they want to x-ray citizens or anyone where they have no probable cause...even if that law doesn't apply. It's just not right on so many levels. IMO, of course.

Fine don't trust me. I could care less. Keep going thru life thinking x-rays "bounce" around a room. They don't because they can't. The only thing that can happen is scatter from hitting biologic tissues, and that is usually at a lower level and absorbed by the body that created it in the first place. I'm not sure this machine could produce that.

and BTW, I don't like these machines either. I was just pointing out a misconception that radiation just bounces around a room. One you seem destined to hold on to, but that's your choice.

 

[GlassOnion]

You're being quite nitpicky aren't you? Scattering and bouncing are essentially the same thing. Bouncing implies that it goes back towards the source (which it could), where as scattering is more of an omnidirectional dispersion, dependent on the material.




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Some people call that scatter, some call it bouncing. It's essentially the same thing. X-rays, like any light, have properties of waves and particles and can act thusly.

 

[release the hounds]

Not really, because the type of radiation produced by scatter is of a lower level and most are absorbed inside the body. They don't scatter from doors, they don't scatter from walls, they don't scatter from the bucky or film. They don't bend around walls, the don't bounce around a room.

It's not the same type of radiation, not the same strength, and not the same effects produced by scatter as the original, so there is a pretty big difference.

The first post said they would bounce around the room hitting everyone in it. and the answer to that is, NO they won't. and if this machine isn't producing ionizing radiation, I'm questioning if it would produce anything of strength that would even leave the body being scanned in the first place.

 

[Fran101]

I wonder if im allowed to strike a fierce americas next top model pose as im going thru this machine..

lol just kidding

 

[release the hounds]

I might take some dressing tips from Borat/Bruno and just go thru that way. they might just let me skip security all together, that or throw me in jail

 

[Lilavati]

Well, at the very least, if you are a "larger" person, I suggest a shimmy and a "come hither" look when you go through . . . that's a small measure of revenge

 

[GlassOnion]

Not really, because the type of radiation produced by scatter is of a lower level and most are absorbed inside the body. They don't scatter from doors, they don't scatter from walls, they don't scatter from the bucky or film. They don't bend around walls, the don't bounce around a room.

They scatter from anything they hit. Scattering is just the effect the photons have when they hit something. It's like when you drop a drop of water upon pavement. The residual splash is analogous to scattering of photons.

Sure the majority will be absorbed by the intended target, but there'll still be other x-ray photons that weren't absorbed, and those will do like any other type of particle and move in the direction they were deflected.

 

[Juicy]

I wonder if im allowed to strike a fierce americas next top model pose as im going thru this machine..

lol just kidding

LOL thanks alot now I wanna throw up the shocker when I go through the machine :lol-sign:...I'm not sure if its j/k or not, because there's always a pitch of truth after every j/k

 

[release the hounds]

They scatter from anything they hit. Scattering is just the effect the photons have when they hit something. It's like when you drop a drop of water upon pavement. The residual splash is analogous to scattering of photons.

Sure the majority will be absorbed by the intended target, but there'll still be other x-ray photons that weren't absorbed, and those will do like any other type of particle and move in the direction they were deflected.

yes, and they will be long wavelength, low energy, non-ionizing and most will be absorbed by clothing, certain molecules in the air, paper, etc. They won't be strong enough to release more alpha and beta particles if they somehow come in contact with biologic tissue, so the risk is nill. they don't bounce all over the room, not everything they hit will cause scatter radiation of any significance. the lower energy scatter will be absorbed by the walls, paper, certain molecules in the air, clothes, etc. Even with high frequency or single phase emitters you just have to stand behind a partial wall, because they can't "bounce" off the patient, then "bounce" off the wall, and then "bounce" off another wall and hit you and knock electrons off your atoms to cause any damage.