From:	Joseph Cotton <Joseph.Cotton@*******.OIT.UNC.EDU>
Subject:	Re: anti-bullet barrier
Date:	Wed, 9 Mar 1994 08:12:39 EST

On Tues, 8 Mar 1994, Gian-Paolo Musumeci wrote:

>
> Just a note on metal detectors. I went to go pick up my mother from a confer-
> ence in Baltimore, and I walked through the metal detector with a Terminator
> lead minature (anyone play Warhammer 40k? These things are huge.), and I did
> not set it off. Oh, and I think it'd be really kewl to put ammo in, say, a
> can of pop. Seriously, would the aluminum block out the x-rays?

I've never run that particular experiment with the airport-style metal
detector & x-ray machine here (the joys of working in a gov't building), but
I have seen a can of soda send the alarm meter off the scale on the metal
detector, and my aluminum clipboard that I carry in my backpack (considerably
thicker than a soda can, I'd said) didn't keep me from being able to ID
everything else in my bag.

Joe Cotton
Joseph.Cotton@*******.oit.unc.edu