On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 16:22:28 -0800, Eric R Snow wrote:

What I find magical is the guy who invented it for physics science
eventually had it used to save his life. It's really crazy how things
we do can have totally unintended results.

Ironically enough, one of the R&D techs at G.E. died of a tumor that
would have been trivially detected on the systems he worked on every
day. Went in for a "hey you - we need a warm body to scan" scan, ...
not good.