Backscatter - Page 2

Boots13 · 05-09-2010, 09:15 AM

I read somewhere that the scanner picture can be "cartoonized" yet still alert on potential weapons. But I still want to know how secure the cargo hold is. A cellphone can ignite a package, if you get my drift. Scary thought.

I still fly, but I really dont like to because it all is such a pain in the butt. I think flying is a "playing the odds" game anyway. The chances of mechanical failure or a crazy guy wanting to open the door is the bigger threat, and nobody, including TSA can screen those wildcard scenarios out.

Overall the TSA still gets a no confidence vote from me.

dixie · 05-10-2010, 11:26 AM

Great...yet another thing to keep me from wanting to fly. I've never flown before. I have an extreme phobia about heights. I went to the airport once, determined to get on a plane. I stood in front of the big glass windows and watched the planes take off and land...and passed straight out where I stood...lol My gf really wants me to try it, so that our travel choices won't be so limited. (Like this weekend, she hopped a plane to Boston then drove into Rhode Island for a family reunion while I'm still sitting here in NC.) But from all the horror stories people keep telling me, and now things like this...well, I just don't know if I will ever have the guts to try.

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05-09-2010, 09:15 AM	#1
Boots13 Member How Do You Identify?: Butch Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: No Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: PNW Posts: 823 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,387 Thanked 2,313 Times in 428 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	zero confidence I read somewhere that the scanner picture can be "cartoonized" yet still alert on potential weapons. But I still want to know how secure the cargo hold is. A cellphone can ignite a package, if you get my drift. Scary thought. I still fly, but I really dont like to because it all is such a pain in the butt. I think flying is a "playing the odds" game anyway. The chances of mechanical failure or a crazy guy wanting to open the door is the bigger threat, and nobody, including TSA can screen those wildcard scenarios out. Overall the TSA still gets a no confidence vote from me.

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05-10-2010, 11:26 AM	#2
dixie Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: I usually just poke it with a stick. Preferred Pronoun?: Bitch Relationship Status: Intertwined deeply Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: We're all a little mad here. Posts: 6,627 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 10,972 Thanked 21,383 Times in 4,808 Posts Rep Power: 21474859	Great...yet another thing to keep me from wanting to fly. I've never flown before. I have an extreme phobia about heights. I went to the airport once, determined to get on a plane. I stood in front of the big glass windows and watched the planes take off and land...and passed straight out where I stood...lol My gf really wants me to try it, so that our travel choices won't be so limited. (Like this weekend, she hopped a plane to Boston then drove into Rhode Island for a family reunion while I'm still sitting here in NC.) But from all the horror stories people keep telling me, and now things like this...well, I just don't know if I will ever have the guts to try.