Originally Posted by
gojirasan
(emphasis mine)
What's the difference between a "silhouette" and an "outline"?
(from merriam-Webster.com)
So I guess they are replacing one system with another that is indistinguishable from the last one. Now that's neutral, unbiased reporting for you. You'd think we actually had a government controlled press.
The use of the word "outline" to describe the images produced by the naked scanners has been from the beginning pure propaganda. Based on the few images that have been released, we can see that the L3 MMW system produces a three-dimensional IMAGE of the subject's body, typically rendered in a silvery metallic tone; the Rapiscan x-ray backscatter units produce front and back two-dimensional monochrome IMAGES of the subject's body (with some skeletal penetration in certain areas added in), that sort of resemble black-and-white photographic negatives. Describing either of these as "outlines" is completely disingenuous and misleading, and I wish that TSA and the media had been challenged on this.