(crossposted from my Livejournal)
I have been telling anyone personally who will listen about the stupidness of the liquid explosives plot and how it wasn’t possible because even my little-remembered rudimentary GCSE Chemistry (I had a very teenage practical interest in things that go bang, so I think I unusually took notice at that point) reminded me that liquids forms of things, especially explosive things, were usually extremely unstable. Hence why you have semtex, dynamite, etc (I wonder how many more keywords I can put in to confuse the keyword searching CIA bots!?)
So I was pleased to see via fellow LJblogger and podcaster nlotic that, in fact, I was right. An article from The Register shows exactly not only how unlikely it would be, but that it’s actually impossible on a modern commercial airline flight.
I wonder how long before it gets pulled or criticised by idiots for ‘telling the terrorists how to do it!’, totally missing the point, or the fact that the Journal of the American Chemical Society had all this info anyway years ago…and that this whole panic seems to be a fraud, or intentional scare with no teeth, at best.
Stupid science, stupid panic – but that never stopped politicians and security wonks before, did it?
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