You are correct. It was to demonstrate they were wasting absurd amounts of money...

wavefunction · on July 10, 2013

I guess my point, from the links provided, is that we shouldn't be bombarding ourselves with the radiation these devices produce.

chc · on July 10, 2013

It's about the same as what you get from eating a banana AFAIK. At any rate, people routinely subject themselves to much higher doses of radiation.

ubercore · on July 10, 2013

It's actually higher than a Banana Equivalent Dose, and you can't always directly compare radiation exposure like that based on dosage.

vwinsyee · on July 10, 2013

I honestly thought that you and chc were joking about the Banana Equivalent Dose. But it turns out that it's a real concept!

chc · on July 10, 2013

Is it? A BED is about 0.08 µSv. From everything I've heard, the TSA machines dose you with somewhere between 0.02 and 0.08 µSv.