Airport Xray Machines Designed to Expose Your Anxiety.
Once upon a time, the Xray machines at airports simply looked into your luggage and the only thing you had to worry about was whether it would mess up the film in your camera.
But with the new digital technology over the past couple of years, we no longer have to worry about putting exposed film into lead carry bags.
Instead we have now have to worry about how much airport Xrays are exposing of us.
Last year Backscatter Xray Screening was tested by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). This technology allows the machine to pretty much ’strip search’ passengers, of course only in a virtual way, to look for any sigs of contraband or weapons.
This year, Homeland Security Department unveiled an anxiety detecting Xray machine known as “Future AttributeScreening Technology” (FAST), which scans people as they walk by a set of cameras. It works in a way similar to a polygraph, determining pulse, breathing, and body temperature swings that apparently ‘ signal the kind of anxiety exuded by a would-be terrorist or criminal.’
Hello, seems to me that anyone flying would exhibit these signs given that simply stepping into an airport causes most of us stress these days…
How much is too much???
Ooh man, seriously? Because I was just diagnosed with anxiety, and being stopped at security and questioned about it isn’t going to help!
Oh great.
I hate to fly. As in borderline-panicky hate to fly. I have to gork myself out with Actifed to get in the airport.
This is not necessarily a good application of technology.
I think it’s just dumb because… what makes them think that terrorists actually suffer from any kind of anxiety? Heck, such people don’t give a damn!
Paranoia is so widespread… it’s just ridiculous. How about they actually solve some of the “real” problems of the world- poverty, economic crisis, environmental damange?
The good news is that these machines may never make it into the mainstream airport policy… here’s hoping.
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