On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 10:39 AM, acheesehead <[email protected]> wrote:
> I went through security with one and TSA thought it was suspicious. They > put it under the X-Ray machine and stared at it for about a minute. It has > been confused since then. Sometimes boots, sometimes not. While a brief > exposure is probably OK. A prolonged exposure might fry something. > > Well, normally, ionizing radiation can only change charge states in internal electrical nodes, i.e. flip bits in memory and internal CPU/chipset logic. In other words, it can't damage anything permanently. Theoretically, very high energy Xrays could disrupt crystalline structure within the chips, i.e. damage them permanently, but it requires energy and intensity much larger than that of an airport Xray machine. Whatever your problems are, it's not because of the Xray scan---did the TSA folk touch/handle the BBB? if so, they could have zapped it with static discharge, which is much deadlier than Xrays. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
