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- DreKor, on 11/28/2007, -0/+63I love harmless forms of electromagnetic radiation!
- slayerab, on 11/28/2007, -0/+50Imagine a trip to the airport where searches weren't so ridiculous...
- Ookadoo, on 11/28/2007, -0/+39It also allows them to see your junk pretty easily.
- Shaman760, on 11/28/2007, -1/+37If they could only implant brains into the TSA workers, that would be impressive.
- so1omon, on 11/28/2007, -0/+35Imagine a trip to the airport where I don't have to take off my shoes? How about REMEMBERING making trips to the airport where I didn't have to take off my damn shoes?! It hasn't been all that long, folks. The article makes it sound like we've always had to submit to these ridiculous security measures.
- FriskDown, on 11/28/2007, -2/+33They should have called it a Z-ray. The Z-ray is better than the X-ray. In fact, it's TWO more!
- BuddyDoQ, on 11/28/2007, -0/+30But they make HULK ANGRY!
- crapmatic, on 11/28/2007, -2/+21This technology is 17 years old... saw it in Total Recall.
- Asrrin29, on 11/28/2007, -1/+19And in other news, Big Brother has increased our chocolate ration from from 4.5 grams to 3 grams! we've never had so much before!
- therealkdog, on 11/28/2007, -2/+17We don't NEED to take them off now, everyone is just over reacting to 1 stupid incident.
- Ravenlock, on 11/28/2007, -1/+16"Imagine a trip to the airport without having to slip off your shoes." ...I don't have to imagine it, I can remember it. I can remember when we didn't go through the motions of ridiculous charades pretending we're actually improving security with it. It wasn't that long ago, folks. It makes me rather sad that people now think that going to the airport and keeping your shoes on would be some kind of *treat*, rather than realizing that the whole "take your shoes off" thing was a farce to begin with.
- kweee, on 11/28/2007, -0/+13Somehow I read that as see-through T-shirts.
- theragu40, on 11/28/2007, -1/+13So...how long before we discover that this causes cancer?
- inactive, on 11/28/2007, -2/+13*aims F-ray at your can of slurm*
- crapmatic, on 11/28/2007, -0/+11If you told most Americans you increased the chocolate ration from 4.5 grams to 3000 milligrams I bet they'd be peeing in their pants with gratitude. Just invent circular changes in measurement and most of them will remain perpetually fooled.
- scrimaxinc, on 11/28/2007, -0/+11Welcome to Costco.........I love you.
- RAdams, on 11/28/2007, -0/+10For my 74 year old grandmother with arthritis and two replacement knees, pretty damn hard.
- trogdor282, on 11/28/2007, -0/+9OW MY SPERM!!! ...Hey, it didn't hurt that time!
- codewater, on 11/28/2007, -1/+10I neither had ever heard of this before and I travel my fair amount by plane... in Europe that is... taking off your shoes? That's ridiculous!
How about not fighting in wars you are not supposed to and maybe the world would not hate the US that much. It's pricks like Bush that makes Americans look bad to the rest of the world. - lacronicus, on 11/28/2007, -0/+9The problem isn't so much that, but that when a smarter american comes along and tells them what happened, they always seem to say something along the lines of "You're not patriotic enough! people like you need to be deported, because it's people like you that make us look bad!"
- slashbot, on 11/28/2007, -2/+10Sorry but just living will get you exposed to all kinds of electromagnetic radiation.
Only way to limit your exposure is to live underground in a faraday cage. Have fun. - Punisher2K, on 11/28/2007, -0/+8They don't need anything to see MY junk easily.
- lowerlogic, on 11/28/2007, -1/+8Giggity, I know what my next job is going to be.
- eighties, on 11/28/2007, -0/+7They call them T-rays because the frequency of the emission spectrum lies in the Terahertz range (10^12 hertz). If you were to use so-called Z-rays, they would be in the "zettahertz" range, which is equivalent to 10^21 hertz. To give you an idea, the most deadly forms of cosmological radiation come in the form of gamma rays, which have a frequency of oscillation in the exahertz range (10^18 hertz). However, this is not a very good comparison, since gamma rays radiation is ionizing, while I'm not sure as to the effects of zetta-band radiation on biological tissue. T-rays are non-ionizing as well, so they are generally safe for use as scanners.
The really cool part is how they're planning on making this technology portable; the only things I know of that are capable of producing (artificial) T-rays are cyclotrons and quantum cascade lasers (QCLs). - razrielle, on 11/28/2007, -2/+9I guess that means you dont need your old one, we takes those today, new ones come in week
- MacGyver2210, on 11/28/2007, -1/+8It is already known to cause cancer, but only in California.
- CraigJ, on 11/28/2007, -0/+7For me, it's more the fact of walking in my socks (or barefoot) on that dirty ass disgusting floor
- FortyCaliber, on 11/28/2007, -4/+11TSA agent: Um, sir... you seem to have some sort of, um, skeleton lookin' thing in your foot... so we's gonna need you to take yo' shoe off anyways. Sir, please calm down... sir... SECURITY!
Security: Is this particular individual the one with the skeleton?... This particular individual does not have his tattoo
TSA Agent: Why come you no have tattoo? - enricosuave, on 11/28/2007, -2/+8morons - when you walk thru the metal detectors, you are not being subjected to an x-ray. - the issue wasn't that the x-rays wouldn't see thru shoes, it was that the detectors at many airports were not mounted flush with the floor, and thereby not scanning what could be hidden inside the soles of your shoes.
- toxicityj, on 11/28/2007, -0/+6Personally, I'd use a T-ray to find the winning bottle cap in a can of Slurm soda.
- zerhynn, on 11/28/2007, -0/+6Terrorist-Rays
- Figs, on 11/28/2007, -0/+6I think that was the point...
- thejohnfloyd, on 11/28/2007, -1/+6Wasn't something like this around last year?
- Ravenlock, on 11/28/2007, -0/+5Said almost exactly the same thing before seeing your comment. You are right on. The complacency with which we accept these "needed security measures" is shocking, but even more shocking that within only a couple of years people are acting as though it's always been this way.
- samcrut, on 11/28/2007, -0/+5Imagine? I don't need to imagine what it's like to not take my shoes off at the airport. It wasn't so long ago that I would forget that I used to enjoy flying before all this TSA ***** came along. Now I do everything I can to avoid flying. A few years ago I wouldn't think twice about flying from Dallas to Austin. Now I drive.
- saifatlast, on 11/28/2007, -1/+6So wait, the incorrect quote (my parent) gets dugg up, while the correct one (my grandparent) gets dugg down?
- drunkenoaf, on 11/28/2007, -0/+5Cyclotrons would be a good name for a Dr. Who enemy.
- troub, on 11/28/2007, -0/+5I'd rather do a John Cleese style silly walk through the detector than bother with taking my shoes off. Maybe a nice goose-step, with my index finger held to my upper lip, now that I think about it.
- ifknot, on 11/28/2007, -0/+4OMFG! It's not about the freaking shoes!
- lacronicus, on 11/28/2007, -0/+4I'm charging my CT rays...
- Luminoth, on 11/28/2007, -0/+4If I wanted to get napalm onto a plane, I could. The pain in the ass process we have now does nothing but stop the people who wouldn't have put in the time or effort to do anything significant.
- swordedge, on 11/28/2007, -1/+5Terahertz rays. Why did it take six paragraphs to say that? Sounds like a solution. I just hope the lady TSA T-Ray operator doesn't start laughing when she sees my equipment.
- ChzPlz, on 11/28/2007, -0/+4or a nerd-core band.
- spyd3rweb, on 11/28/2007, -1/+5My right to not be searched without a warrant is being violated.
- achoo5000, on 11/28/2007, -1/+5word.
- s1mph0ny, on 11/28/2007, -0/+4It's about time they just outlaw shoes at the airport all together.
- TheUngod, on 11/28/2007, -0/+4Yet I'm sure they'll still find reason to strip search "random" people.
- Pilot85, on 11/28/2007, -0/+4... ?
- brufleth, on 11/28/2007, -0/+4That sound you might have heard was the comment flying over your head.
- qvitex, on 11/28/2007, -0/+4Ow! My sperm!
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