Re: bio and some questions

["Willem-Jan Markerink" <w.j.markerink@xxxxx>]

On 14 Apr 98 at 7:12, George L Smyth wrote:

> Willem-Jan Markerink wrote:
> > 
> > One complicating detail that has recently been discussed on the Net
> > is the use of new airline luggage scan equipment....late model
> > scanners can (and will) automatically raise their intensity when
> > seeing opaque/strange objects,
> 
> In the United States, by law, they can only be turned up so far.  If they are
> not able to see the object they will require you to remove the object for hand
> inspection.  I believe that the UK also does this.  Oher countries may not have
> these rules, so there may well be problems elsewhere.

I think you are confusing carry-on with check-in luggage....the owner 
of the luggage is far away when the check-in luggage goes through the 
scanner, deep down in the cargo department. No hand inspection 
possible....so they crank up the scanner.
I also believe that for this type of radiation lead offers very 
little protection, if at all. It might work for carry-on inspection, 
as long as the operator doesn't crank it up as well, to see through 
this dark object....8-))



- -- 
Bye,

Willem-Jan Markerink


      The desire to understand 
is sometimes far less intelligent than
     the inability to understand


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