Originally Posted by
TSORon
You should have read the report. Standing in your house you get as much radiation in 1.8 minutes as a single scan by the backscatter systems. Once you are on the plane and flying, it only takes 12 seconds to get the same dose.
Given your theory on the concept someone who is 100 years old should be glowing and toxic to the touch. The human body is pretty good at throwing off minute amounts of radiation, otherwise we would all have real problems.
Getting the same magnitude of exposure to radiation is not the same as getting the same magnitude of exposure to specific types of radiation. I have always taken exception with this comparison as cosmic rays (the type you get on the plane), background radiation (they type you get in line), and x-rays from the machine are not equivalent types even though they may be of similar magnitudes.
I'll offer a crude analogy. If I stand and take hits from a BB gun to a cumulative total energy of 414 ft-lbf it is not the same as getting hit by one 45 ACP 230 gr. Federal Hyrda-shock with exactly the same energy at 830 ft/s.
It discredits the report that scientists would do this.