• resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Too dangerous to allow a liter of liquid on a plane.

    Let’s mix them all together in an airport where nothing bad can happen.

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      3 months ago

      what if terrorists brought actual bomb juice and poured in in there and then just flicked a match into there and the whole fuckin airport blew up? things to think about when youre on your way to the airport.

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      3 months ago

      The liquids are not allowed because they mess with explosive detectors. Not because anyone thinks they are dangerous.

      It’s not “too dangerous to allow liquid on a plane”. It’s “we can’t detect explosives in your luggage if there are also liquids in it”.

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        3 months ago

        That doesn’t make sense. If that was the only reason, it would be easier and safer to just get people to take their liquid, in its container, out of the bag at scanning time

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        3 months ago

        Why can’t the liquid be allowed on the plane after the rest of your luggage is scanned then?

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        3 months ago

        I thought that somebody could sneak a explosive liquid into a plane via cup or bottle, and that the liquid could look so much like coffee or water or fuckin diet Pepsi that the security people were like “nah bro we aren’t gonna test it”.