PJ Vogt

So I fly back and forth, you know, kind of a lot.

So you can imagine that I'm going through security pretty frequently.

Wait, and you, New York and Honolulu?

That's right.

Two very far apart places.

Almost as far apart as you can get in the U.S.

It's very inconvenient.

Okay, and so the question you have is about something that happens when you fly.

Tell me what happens.

Okay, so do you know the full-body TSA scanner?

The one where you, it replaced the pure metal detector and you walk in and you kind of put your hands like the cartoon over your head and it scans you more thoroughly is my understanding.

Yeah, exactly.

So if you have a TSA pre-check, you generally just go through the x-ray like old school.

But for everybody else, you go into this kind of like cylindrical space, and then you plant your feet shoulder width apart, hold your hands in the air above your head, and then it kind of like whooshes around you.

And then there's like a little screen.

And generally after like a one second delay, it just turns green into something like go, and then you just walk on and get your baggage.

That's what happens if everything goes right.

If something goes wrong, meaning the machine detects some kind of anomaly, you get stopped.

You see on the little screen a sort of gingerbread outline version of you with a box over the part of your body that the machine is flagging.

So if you're wearing a big watch or something, it might be over your wrist.