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Yes. I have to opt-out every time I fly now which adds ~20-30 minutes to my visit to security.
by miah_ 11y ago
Yes. I have to opt-out every time I fly now which adds ~20-30 minutes to my visit to security.
- hughes 11y agoOpt-out of what?
- diyorgasms 11y agoPresumably the millimeter wave body scanners, which are both invasive and relatively unstudied in its health effects.
- toomuchtodo 11y agoApparently millimeter wave radiation can be ionizing under the right circumstances. That's sort of terrifying. http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.5294 http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.5294
- oakwhiz 11y agoThe paper you referred to doesn't make any claims with regards to ionization - the effects considered are mainly having to do with the molecular dynamics behaviors of DNA.
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- throwketchup 11y agoJust pay for precheck. It's $85 for 5 years, and realistically, yes, most of that money just goes to line the pockets of the politically connected. On the other hand, you can pretty consistently go from curb to club in 5 minutes, and you bypass the nude-o-scope. I'm all for standing up for principle, but this one is already lost. TSA doesn't care if 10 ppm of the traveling population opt out. Google "managed inclusion" if you want to understand why organizing an opt-out protest on Thanksgiving (or generally encourage people to opt out) won't change anything.