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Aircraft NOS Button
Spray nitrous oxide into the cabin to pacify passengers and terrorists alike | |
This idea is not to make a plane go faster, like NOS on a dragster, but rather to prevent any of the pasengers getting up to mischief. At the press of a button in the cockpit, laughing gas would be introduced into the cabin of the aircraft, causing all the passengers and terrorists presnet, to be incapacitated
(hopefully without permanent harm). The flight crew wouldn't be affected, as they would put on their oxygen masks first, as is common practice in aviation emergencies. NOS as a gas to use is just a suggestion of course, there are probably other more suitable and less potentialy harmful substances available. Apparently research was done on gasses producing LSD-like effects for military purposes, one of these might be more useful. Or perhapse even some form of marijuana-derived agent...
N2O FAQ
http://www.resort.c...e/Info/N2O/N2O.html
Background. [jutta, Sep 16 2001]
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(How much N2O would you it take to incapacitate an airplane full of people, anyway?) |
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So terrorists will have to start packing oxygen masks themselves. What then? |
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Oxygen tanks are metal, so they'd show up pretty well on an X-ray. |
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A bad idea anyway, though, as what might just give me <6'3, 300#> the giggles could kill someone smaller...and if all they get is the giggles I might just have nothing at all... |
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NOS might not be the gas of choice, "LSD gas" or marijuana smoke would probably be safer... |
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Oxygen tanks of any sort are already prohibited on planes. |
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I heard a talking head on TV suggest that an airplane cabin could be filled with an opaque smoke, to disrupt a hijacker's visibility. |
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Any smoke that can be thick enough to block visibility is going to be hard to breathe, too. |
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No one has suggested filling the aircraft with custard? I'm shocked! |
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In fact, flights could routinely be filled with custard. Peaceful passengers would be able to move about freely; violent passengers would be locked in the Custard Matrix. And it would taste better than the peanuts. |
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I'd try it. Anything that could give potential hijackers a bad case of the giggles, and start them swatting each other with in-flight magazines, is all right with me. |
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//6'3, 300#// - damn, man - always been a big boy? |
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Since I was 12. Went from 'normal kid' to 'How's the weather up there' overnight, almost. |
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//So what's to keep the terrorists from grabbing masks in the ceiling?????// |
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Maybe that's the best idea. Depressurize the cabin in a controlled manner and drop the masks. Let's see how well they go about hijacking the plane without air, or confined to a seat. |
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They could, of course bring air cylinders, but those'd be easier to detect than a razor blade. |
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Surely the best would be helium, as delivering your demands to the outside world sounding like Micky Mouse would deter most terrorists...imho |
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Vaporized ketamine would probably promote the most
calm. Being in an aircraft that's hurtling
toward fiery doom means nothing if you neither know nor
care who you are. |
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