3 ms·
I know you're joking but it seems like it is possible that Richard Reid the shoe bomber could have inserted the explosives inside a plastic bag and then put tha
by stevenwoo 10y ago
I know you're joking but it seems like it is possible that Richard Reid the shoe bomber could have inserted the explosives inside a plastic bag and then put that inside himself (either swallow it or in the rectum) and then remove the explosive in the airplane bathroom and ignited it. Not sure why they have not done this already.
- mirimir 10y agoIn Gibson's Count Zero, Turner was almost killed by a "Slamhound", an exploding dog trained to find him. I vaguely recall that the dog's liver was replaced by explosive.
- arethuza 10y agoSounds vaguely like the Soviet anti-tank dogs from WW2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tank_dog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tank_dog
- mirimir 10y agoWow. That's crazy. And it didn't work, either. But humans arguably wouldn't get confused so readily. Even so, they'd just X-ray all passengers.
- zkms 10y agoThere already exist commercial transmission (not backscatter!) full-body x-ray security scanners. They are used in prisons now, but there's no reason they can't be used in airports.