Originally Posted by
4nsicdoc
You're sort of missing the point but it is a very understandable question and there are no dumb questions, except perhaps "For the third time, what is your name" and, of course"DY...T.". X-rays, and gamma rays, and most any analytical tool using electromagnetic emissions don't really display useable images because it can quantify density. It works more on being able to discriminate between different densities. A diagnostician, or screener for that matter, can see a tumor in normal tissue or a claymore hidden in a pumpkin (and for loops, a claymore is a high explosive shaped anti-personnel weapon, or, if you prefer, a pretty efficient little stove for field rations if you slice off a sliver and light it) because the differing materials cause differing attenuation and/or absorption of the photon mediating the "ray."
For any more, you have to pay tuition. But I work cheap (Sorry Sister Agnes of the Sorrowful Adverbs) and I promise there are no groping gatekeepers to enter the fertile (non-sterile)area of scientific knowledge.
Ooh! "groping gatekeepers." I like it.
Perhaps. Have you seen a melon or pumpkin on x-ray to notice the different layers, or levels or strata, whatever we wish to call them? Regardless, if someone wishes to inject their watermelon with vodka, and enjoy it on the plane, feel free, I really do not think that would be a problem.
But as I was responding to someone who said they could put "quite a bit of non-watermelon liquid in a watermelon", knowing what a watermelon SHOULD look like on the inside when see on x-ray, I maintain that such delicious melon would quickly get the notice the screener on x-ray (but I also guess that depends on each persons definition of what "quite a bit" of liquid means).
Hmmm I think I may try to verify this myself! Well, not with vodka, I can't bring that to work
