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Old 15th Jan 2007, 14:23
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Originally Posted by vanderaj
Putting one bag in another bag will make it that much harder for the underpaid and overworked screening staff to make out dangerous objects. These folks rely on the machine highlighting suspicious objects, and the more objects in a bag, the worse it gets. The XRay screening devices look for molecular weights and particular object edges. When they find them, they are highlighted in different colors. The screeners mostly look for the colors - this is why people seem to occasionally get through with dangerous objects.
OK, so maybe you might like to answer the question I posed:-

How many bags per person do you think the security screeners should have to look at?
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