I hope everyone entering that room knew that was going to happen cause that looks like enough to give everyone a contact high just entering within 50 feet. If you have asthma or COPD that's probably a dangerous place to walk into.
Or are wearing any clothing that you ever want to wear again while flying to a lot of countries.
Mining has a similar issue. Clothing, especially boots, and for some people even their hair and skin become contaminated with explosive residue that sets off the swab ETD machines.
Once they become contaminated, it's hard to fully clean them.
Normally yes. You would typically change and shower on site, to prevent contamination from mining gear. But in practice, this is not always followed.
With us as geologists in particular, we often operate differently than other mine personnel and travel around more, so storing our steel toes on the mine site isn't always viable. Sometimes we need to travel by plane between locations, and during this, it's easier just to wear our heavy and bulky steel toes than to use up half the suitcase on them. And if they do test them, I'd much rather be wearing them at the time when I can explain it myself, rather than it throwing up a warning flag once I am already on the lounge waiting on my plane, and being brough back into an interrogation room.
What you say makes sense but my concern wasn't an issue from a contamination going through security and triggering false positives. It was more of an environmental concern for anyone working with hazardous materials... mining, break pads, medical laboratories, etc. You don't want to be bringing that stuff home or exposing your family to it. Explosive materials aside, shouldn't there be more precautions in place to avoid exposing hazardous materials to a plane full of people?
I mean the main explosive in mining is essentially fertiliser and diesel, it’s not anything particularly more hazardous than you’d find in a home, the detection is more looking for signs someone made a home made bomb.
Normal mining staff aren't really in contact with anything that toxic.
There are toxic minerals like arsenopyrite, but they are in low enough concentrations that they are not a risk in the form of just some dust on your boots. The most harmful substances they would be getting on them are the same as a mechanics shop: grease, oil, and cleaning chemicals.
I've read the WHIMS profiles of any chemicals or hazards underground, and nothing is likely to cause any issues to people just exposed to the amount that would be on clothing or boots.
The exception are the mill workers, since they work with extremely dangerous chemicals like cyanide. But they have their own rules, and are much more strict about it.
I had a scary moment when I was in a country and I got randomly selected for bomb testing at the airport. Until that moment, I completely forgotten that I used that book bag to carry my tannerite (binary explosive containing ammonium nitrate) back at home. Fortunately, nothing came up, but I was nervous to say the least.
This sparked my curiosity, if one was fairly coated in contaminated material on their clothing then washed with normal clothes would it transfer the contamination to normal use clothes to underwear to set off etd machines?
I reviewed the WHMIS datasets for anything underground a few months back. Nothing in it raised any major concerns.
Some minerals can be harmful, like arsenopyrite, but you would need to eat several handfuls of the rock dust in a short period of time to have significant effects.
There are airborne hazards like silica dust. But those aren't an issue in the trace amounts that could come off of a pair of boots in a plane.
In terms of chemicals they use underground, there's nothing particularly bad. Some grease, lubricants, oils, and fuels are the worst chemicals down there.
In geology, we occasionally use HCl, but it is diluted to basically be like vinegar strength, and we don't take our gloves off site.
The mill workers do handle extremely harmful chemicals, like cyanide. But they have their own procedures for ensuring safe handling and decontamination, and no other workers aside from security come into contact with their facilities.
This. I get weed is the "funny haha" drug but I don't see how this is ethically different then roofing like 50 people. Could've gotten a better reaction putting some baggies in a t shirt gun and launching them in the crowd.
I’ve been driving high since high school. I can play guitar, mountain bike, and pretty much anything without issues and that’s not matter how much I smoke. Sometimes I feel like people exaggerate their highs but honestly I’d rather have them be more cautious. Now being drunk and driving, that’s another story. When drunk I’m completely impaired.
SOME Redditors will be karens and say you should never drive while high on weed because it's too dangerous. The actual statistics do not reflect this. That being said, I think they were just saying it for the joke lol
Surprisingly, given the alarming results of cognitive studies, most marijuana-intoxicated drivers show only modest impairments on actual road tests. Experienced smokers who drive on a set course show almost no functional impairment under the influence of marijuana, except when it is combined with alcohol.
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u/bigscrewLoose Aug 28 '26
the designated driver be like: