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Security lines are shorter because you can’t fly a train full of jet fuel into a pair of skyscrapers.
by toufiqbarhamov 8y ago
Security lines are shorter because you can’t fly a train full of jet fuel into a pair of skyscrapers.
- ams6110 8y agoYou can't do that anymore with commercial aircraft either, since they started looking the cockpit door, yet we still act like every passenger is likely to try it.
- soheil 8y agoSure you can't do that exact thing but who would have thought of flying planes into skyscrapers before 9/11 except a few crazies anyway? We didn't exactly have a pandemic of people flying planes into skyscrapers for decades prior.
- toufiqbarhamov 8y agoSure you can't do that exact thing but who would have thought of flying planes into skyscrapers before 9/11 except a few crazies anyway? Tom Clancy? In ‘Debt of Honor’ it’s a major plot-point after all. The issue here is not that making a train into a cruise missile is hard to imagine, it’s actually impossible. You can attack the train, or use the train to attack a station or something close to the tracks, and that’s it. It’s also a purely kinetic event, rather than adding the complexity of so much fuel.