For Air travel, we need to concentrate on finding bombs and not worry about the rest. No hijacker is going to take over an airliner with a Glock or a Samurai sword, let alone a box cutter or cuticle scissors. [/B][/QUOTE]

I wonder if they have stopped the fluids based on toe guys seperately carrying chemicals that mixed together would kill alot of people?

That is exactly it. Except it would be 3, two with the liquids and one with the electronic detonator disguised as something electronic.

I did a quickie search this morning on Google and 2 things came up: Some sort of liquid rocket fuel (not sure how easy THAT would be to make) and a de-classified Pentagon report (you have to pay to see it) on just these kinds of explosive. Supposedly the liquids are both clear.

Have you ever read Heinlein's "The Puppetmasters"?

Well, it would make it easier for women to breast feed on the airplanes.

At least the last one I saw (In first class, overseas flight) she kept a blanket over her while doing it. In France,we walked past a few women with babies attached. Can't they just get a big shirt and shove the kid up under it?

A train can be bombed more easily than an airplane, but bombing a train wouldn't kill as many people as bombing an airplane (the train car where the bomb is placed plus some more from the derailment, versus the entire airplane).

(I know there have been some high death tolls in recent terrorist attacks on trains, but those have been attacks on multiple trains, the deaths per bomb are fairly modest.)

I think they need to ban diet coke and mentos.

I think we should institute a 24 hour bean burrito and boiled cabbage ban prior to boarding.

+1:(

FWIW China began screening fluids a long time ago because of this possibility. They smell every liquid (obviously not as good as a dog) and have you take a drink.

Conspiracy on the part of all those airport-based convenience stores that charge six bucks for a four-pack of asprin, three bucks for a bottle of watter or ten bucks for a 3-pack of vibro-ribbed rubbers.

CONSPIRACY I SAY!!!

The CNN article said they were going to use a sport drink for a bomb? Like Gatorade?? How do you make that blow up?

If I told you, they would come for me...

Rick. Turn on any Fox news affiliate. It's there.

igniter.............flash from a camera. ABC NEWS 5 min ago

I read they were going to use some type of peroxide based liquids and electronic equipment, such as a camera flash, to detonate.

My son is flying from CA to VA on the red-eye Saturday night, and is bringing with him 4 frozen tri-tip roasts. Apparently it's a difficult cut of meat to find on the east coast.

Wonder what kind of grief he'll get going thru security with vacuum packed frozen meat?

I don't think it will get on the plane as hand carry. Have him pack it and check it as baggage. It's colder down below anyhow.

the terrorists have won.

so were at red alert and water is banned on flights.
:rolleyes:

if you had a bomb that required H20 to explode, wouldn't you just order some from the flight attendant? DUH!

in other news, the terrorist attack on Iraq by the Bush administration was not foiled.
2500 US Soldiers and 50,000+ Iraqis dead.
US tax payers defrauded in the Billions.
stay tuned for more...

Blah, blah, blah, shut up. At least save it for the political poo throwing threads. They were smuggling on liquids that LOOKED like water, that when combined and ignited make a bomb. Is it really that damn big of a deal? Take a drink before your flight, long flights provide drinks anway. I'm thirsty vs 11 planes explode over the ocean, boy it's a tough choice.

Anybody watch MythBusters last night? Pretty good timing on the topic.

"The Isrealis conduct an extensive interview one on one with every passenger. You are asked about your travelling companion (your answers are compared to theirs), your recent local itenerary (will be verified somehow), your reaction to 'stimulus questions' will be observed, your appearance and body language will be rated, your passport will be examined for previous travel, and the sum total of all of this is given a score. This is also done for aircrew. If you are on EL AL, it doesn't take much to get booted. There are 3 or 4 booted from every flight. Every flight. If you are from certain countries, or have visited certain countries, or even look like you are from certain countries, you are booted.

Hard to argue with success. Yes, profiling works. Not PC, but it works. Imagine it? It's coming."

I don't think our enemies could possibly make it any easier for us to spot them, could they? All the terrorists are Muslims and look like Muslims. So let's have 2 lines for the security check: 1 for Muslim-looking people and one for everybody else. All Muslims will go thru the Isreali procedure and .... oh wait, that would be discrimination. :rolleyes: We wouldn't want to hurt anybody's feelings!

That's actually not a bad idea. But why stop there, if we have seperate restaurants there'd be less danger of them blowing us up. And seperate bathrooms, drinking fountains. Maybe make them all sit in the back of the plane so you can keep a better eye on them. Maybe the lighter skined ones should be required to sew a symbol of their religion on their clothing. We could also tatoo a barcode or number on them to keep track of them.

And to really show em who's boss and instill the fear of god the rest of us can all wear bedsheets and pillow cases.

:rolleyes: