Full Body Airport Scans

[Retired]

The FAA proposes to install 1,000 full body scan machines in airports around the U.S. by the end of 2011.

Will this affect your plans for air travel? Do these machines make you feel more or less comfortable about flying?

 

[Cat Dancer]

I haven't flown on an airplane since 1992 and never plan to again so this doesn't bother or affect me at all.

 

[Daniel E.]

Will this affect your plans for air travel?

This may be a good excuse not to visit certain relatives

 

[David Baxter PhD]

We're supposed to get them in Canada too.

I don't fly a lot any more anyway but I may just visit the Ottawa airport periodically and ask them for a full body checkup and an oil change.

 

[Banned]

I'm not bothered by the full body scan, but I'm bothered by the amount of money poured into airport "security" to make it look like air travel is much safer. It's become a big pain in the butt to travel to the States and I'm not convinced air travel is any safer than it was pre 9/11. Having worked for an airline for five years, it's actually quite incredulous to know what really happens behind the smoke screen.

 

[David Baxter PhD]

Stare at The Sun: breast bombs
Improbable Research Blog
March 28, 2010

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A news source (Fox News) famed for its reliability, reprinting news from another news source (The Sun) famed for its reliability, applies this headline:

Terrorists Could Use Explosives in Breast Implants to Crash Planes, Experts Warn
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The Sun accompanies its report with the image reproduced here.

Thus does vital knowledge get spread to the general public.