U.S. To Ban Laptops in All Cabins of Flights from Europe
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U.S. To Ban Laptops in All Cabins of Flights from Europe
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#2So all the terrorists have to do is convince the USA they've figured out how to hide bombs in humans and they'll ban humans from flights.
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#3No worries. For a few hundred dollars, I'm sure you'll be able to register as a certified patriotic laptop carrier. Everything will go back to normal and the airline will get to collect yet another fee for something we used to get for free.
And we're totally safer from terrorists as a result.
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#4That's a bit of a pain. I wonder why a laptop bomb would cause problems in the cabin but not in the cargo hold.
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#5Previous discussion from 10 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14311073 (56 points, 19 comments)
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#6Is "thedailybeast" a reliable source?
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#7That's a bit of a pain. I wonder why a laptop bomb would cause problems in the cabin but not in the cargo hold.
A laptop bomb would presumably be fairly small in size and would probably have to be placed directly against some sensitive part of the plane in order to be effective. The cargo hold meanwhile is already reinforced and any bomb would most likely end up in a middle of a lot of baggage that would absorb most of the blast. It would probably force the plane to make an emergency landing but it's unlikely to be catastrophic.
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#8That's a bit of a pain. I wonder why a laptop bomb would cause problems in the cabin but not in the cargo hold.
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#9Is "thedailybeast" a reliable source?
Nope
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14311758
edit maybe, given the child comment's claim.
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#10So all the terrorists have to do is convince the USA they've figured out how to hide bombs in humans and they'll ban humans from flights.
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.