But they will let the guy with flares strapped around his body through!!

 

Only the very best (and most expensive and hi-tech) explosives can produce anything close to that sort of energy-per-weight. The odds of developing a similar explosive which could be easily manufactured, detonated by low heat, and binary to boot are pretty slim.

I suspect the video was over-dramatized.

 

What scares me the most is that my head is shaped like a watermelon. Will I have extra screening now?

 

Now that was funny!!

Going through TSA in MSP, I lost my toothpaste because I wasn't in uniform (but I was in the employee line and traveling positive space on company business). He said he was going to let the other things through to cut me some slack (this was a supervisor btw).

Did you notice how they shine the light on your badge now? I asked one guy why he was doing it. He said for practice! Because the new badges were going to have a light sensitive strip in them but no badges have it yet... so they were "getting ready" for the change....

 

Why is this crap even posted. It should be viewed as a threat to national security and removed the minute it shows up on the internet. There is no practical use for this video.

I am not complaining about posting it here but the fact that video ever made it to the public is horrible.

 

This topic is in the realm that is far beyond our scope or control. We will moderate airline-specific security content, but this one is very general...kind of like MANPADS, everything you want to know is already on wiki.

 

Um....hey guys, did any one else smell B.S. after watching that? come on, you cant really believe that is true. Did anyone bother to actually look at the web site that hosts that video? If that stuff existed, airplanes would be falling out of the sky. I think talking about 'threat to national security' is a bit over-dramatic. Don't believe everything that you see online, especially from a clown web site like that! (Oh yeah, the creepy music did well for effect)

 

You took me wrong Rick. I don't mind it being here (APC), I mind it being anywhere. That is the kind of stuff that censorship needs to be installed on. I am all about freedom of speech but stuff like that could potentially take away freedom from breath which I value a bit more.

 

Yes, I said that earlier. I have some experience with explosives, and that would be pushing the outer realm of possibility.

Also a solid spherical object which suffers an impact on one side will focus the resultant shockwave on the exact opposite side with dramatic results...probably why they used a watermelon vice a cinderblock...more dramatic results for the bang.

 

Thanks for posting this Fatty.

There are an inordinate number of threats against commercial aviation and this is just one, although very scary with its' potential. I personally am even more concerned about the RF threat especially since the Soviets had the portable transmitters and they worked beautifully. Just imagine parking off the departure end of a major airport's active runway and "shooting" a newer generation B-757, 777, Airbus A-380 as it passes 1,000' over Boston, New York, SFO, etc. No noise, no blast, no signal...just an aircraft with virtually all of it's computers neutralized.

Think about that one. BTW, for those concerned about his being posted on the Internet, the entire instruction book for making the bomb that Ramzi Yousef used on Phillipine Airlines Flt # 454 was posted on the net years ago complete with part numbers and how to order the components.

G'Day Mates