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She did that as a protest against airport scanners, I believe.
by widdershins 13y ago
She did that as a protest against airport scanners, I believe.
- at-fates-hands 13y agoYou are correct. It was to demonstrate they were wasting absurd amounts of money paying for these when they can be built fairly easily for quite a bit less.
- wavefunction 13y agoI guess my point, from the links provided, is that we shouldn't be bombarding ourselves with the radiation these devices produce.
- chc 13y agoIt's about the same as what you get from eating a banana AFAIK. At any rate, people routinely subject themselves to much higher doses of radiation.
- ubercore 13y agoIt's actually higher than a Banana Equivalent Dose, and you can't always directly compare radiation exposure like that based on dosage.
- vwinsyee 13y agoI honestly thought that you and chc were joking about the Banana Equivalent Dose. But it turns out that it's a real concept! 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose 2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15288975 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15288975
- chc 13y agoIs it? A BED is about 0.08 µSv. From everything I've heard, the TSA machines dose you with somewhere between 0.02 and 0.08 µSv.