The embedded video is dead, but I assume this is the same one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHRlXzRfvpA
Edit: the video claims radiation exposure is equivalent to a 15 minute airplane ride.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHRlXzRfvpA
Edit: the video claims radiation exposure is equivalent to a 15 minute airplane ride.
That's also the claim the TSA makes about the body-scanners in the airports, yet these are dramatically more powerful (to be able to see through metal). Google (image search) a bit "scanner van" and you'll see these things can penetrate multiple layers of steel (pickup truck bodies, etc.) with no problem. That takes a wee bit more power than looking through cotton jeans and underwear.
Don't forget about the TSA cancer cluster... or the fact that the TSA lied outwardly about the safety of the devices (stating the NIST, which doesn't perform product testing, tested the body scanners and certified them as safe).
On the one hand I'm all in favor of driving these around where there may be active IED activity but less thrilled about having them randomly running through traffic, only to suddenly pull me over because I've got 3 bags of fertilizer for my new grass sod lawn.
The older I get the more I realize I haven't thought too hard about the downside of living in the kind of places one reads about in science fiction.
That would stop being a good idea once "insurgents" learn what X-rays are.
yeah, I agree. That's a bad idea.
Of course you should be able to shield yourself from the harmful effects of the X-rays by sitting behind a thin wall of metal, for example the metal making up your car's body....
Why don't I believe a word of this.