• sramder@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Never fails to amuse me that in order to fight to “threat” of binary explosives i.e. two liquids that explode when mixed together…

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      4 months ago

      by definition this occurs before security, so anybody that wanted to could just bring a regular explosive

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        4 months ago

        Yeah, but just like an M-80 so the whole checkpoint is splattered with drink and hand lotion.

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      4 months ago

      Not a big enough target for terrorists.
      Imagine having planned the next 9/11 but then instead you have to just blow up part of an airport instead 😒

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        4 months ago

        IDK Boeing is doing a good enough job in the air, maybe it’s time to move on to ground based targets.

        TSA would just set up a checkpoint-checkpoint and add a few hours to our departures… yeah, I think this is going to work for everyone!

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      4 months ago

      The risk is explosive so mixing them with other fluids is probably not a problem.

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      4 months ago

      They are not dangerous, that’s not the reason they are not allowed.

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    4 months ago

    Oh darn guess I’ll have to pour my separate bottles of bleach and ammonia in there since they’re not allowed past security checkpoint.

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      4 months ago

      Thinking the same thing. Oh shoot! I need to pour my bromine out! Proceeds to dump 1 gallon of fuming bromine into liquid receptacle.

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      4 months ago

      Calgary has a liquor store in the domestic terminal after security. Not a duty free, a liquor store. Just in case you want a 5th during take off.

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        4 months ago

        My hometown has that as well. We’ve got some of the cheapest booze in the country because of how our taxes work

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        3 months ago

        When I was flying out of Orlando for a work trip last year I was really struggling to find somewhere selling coffee after security. I finally found it tucked in the back of a concerningly well-stocked bar

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    But, if they’re explosive, wouldn’t emptying your explosive with a soup of everyone else’s explosives, be a bad idea? Unless… is all this “security theater” just for show??

    E: grammar

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      The point isn’t that liquids are explosive, the point is that water messes up the explosives detection. It’s “liquids are not allowed, because water is a false positive for explosives and we want to avoid the false positive”.

      That’s why it’s starting to get allowed in many airports - they updated their detectors to newer technology where water is no longer a false positive.

      Nobody thinks your bottle of water is a bomb.

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        That makes sense and would almost reassure me if they didn’t have a 95% failure rate in tests. The data is super old but I can’t find anything to suggest it’s improved since then.

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        According to several TSA agents in my travels to and around the US, at least, when I asked why my water had to be discarded, they all said variations of the same thing, “it could be an explosive”. And the news broadcasts I’ve seen when this measure was first implemented were telling people that these “new types of explosives” look like water and are hidden inside water bottles, and the water can even be sipped on without harm to the person from the heavier-than-water liquid explosive. So, while it may have been a lie, it was one that approved the measures. “False positives” were never communicated.

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    4 months ago

    When the terrorists empty their liquid explosives into there, you’ll get to smell like piss while the flesh burns off of your bones.