On: Fatal Dose – Radiation Deaths linked to AECL Computer Errors (1994)

[sandworm101]

>> but what are the chances this could happen, or already happened, in another place?

Zero. The TSA machines are not limited by software. They will catch fire themselves before killing people. Therac-25 was designed to destroy tissues, cancer tissues but human tissue nevertheless. It is like comparing an m-16 to a rubber band gun. They are both guns, but they are fundamentally different in terms of capabilities with the former.

[whatshisface → sandworm101]

The parent is talking about scanners including those luggage x-ray machines, which can slowly dose up and give cancer to their operators.

[sandworm101 → whatshisface]

Over a very extended period. They wont cook people like the therac did.

[whatshisface → sandworm101]

Extended periods are very relevant to any TSA employee that can hold down the job. Death is death, flashy or not.