Body scanners, hmm.

I’ve said for years that if you look in my window and see me walking around in the buff, you get exactly what you deserve. I guess that’s pretty much my take on full body scanners, except for the free dose of radiation, of course.
But it occurs to me that we are fast approaching the time of acceptable public nudity, much as Robert Heinlein described at the end of The Puppet Masters, and for much the same reason. Strip down before you get on the plane, folks, and let’s see if you’ve got an alien riding on your back. Or a gun holstered in the small of same, or whatever.
The problem will be getting people to be reasonable about it. I think Heinlein always underestimated the stupidity and prudery of the general public. And of course we’ll have to find the budget money to heat the airport to a comfortable temperature in winter…but they could set the air conditioning higher in the summer to make up for it.
Oh, and no, all that said, I don’t think full body scanners do a damn thing for security, any more than the carry-on luggage searches and making you take your laptop out of its case prevent people from getting on planes with stuff you could kill people with but TSA isn’t looking for. It’s all security kabuki, it don’t mean a thing.
When we really get serious, we’ll start using Israeli methods. Not until.