Reply #7: just read a CNN article basically saying that [View All]

a real liquid explosive would likely only be incendiary according to the experts. Except that in the case of an incendiary the crew and pilot have options, some of them better left unmentioned. And in the unpressurized luggage hold, detonated by remote?

Not to mention fire extinguishers. You'd have to have like, something the size of Rush Limbaugh on fire to make any difference, and that's kind of hard to sneak aboard in one's butt cleavage, unless you ARE Rush Limbaugh, and people who look like Rush - not really all that into martyrdom and self-immolation.

Oh well. At least this way when they ban watches and anything with a battery it WILL be the end of public air transport. They're so stupid. Why are they so stupid. :shrug:

Do they really believe that "registered" travelers, i.e., people who have been traveling for work for 30 years every day are going to wake up one morning, pull the watch out of their battery and blow up their baby food? Somebody take away their access to the SciFi channel.

It is worthy of mockery. I would add that if the Department of Homeland Security were rocket scientists we'd all be living on Pluto by now instead of worrying about watch batteries and hair gel.