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- various chromatographers - (say) $12k per install |
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- annoying people with silly(ish) rules - free |
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- binary explosives getting mixed after being separately poured into the refuse bucket - priceless. |
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My 1 litre bottle of water was noticed at an airport last week - the security guy just asked me to drink some to prove it was really water, and then he let me take it onto the plane. |
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Why take the bottle of nitroglyzerine onto the plane? If you managed to bring one to the security checkpoint you are all set for mass murder. Proof: The checkpoint-scene in Matrix. |
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Matt, are you labouring under the delusion that the 'security' checks are there because someone actually believes they might prevent a terrorist attack of some kind? |
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This is baked. There's some kind of optical
spectrometer that a guy invented that can identify
liquids even through the bottles. It was featured in a
magazine like Popular Science many years ago (not sure
if before or after 2009). It's never been used at airports,
AFAIK, even though that's what it was invented for.
OTOH, I have had my laptop tested with an ion
mobility spectrometer at an airport. They swabbed the
keyboard and put the swab in the machine, and a few
seconds later it said I wasn't a terrorist. |
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