But sure you could be blown up anywhere: on a train, bus, on a street.. you name it. It's just a very extreme measure, which could have repercussions and could also be abused.

Its more a measure to instil piblic confidence.

You dont walk through the more effective type, you stand and get scanned a bit like an x-ray. The operators are supposed to view the images in a screened private area not accessible by the general public.

They will detect high density objects like knives and guns, even dense explosives like semtex and C4 plastic explosive, however they wont detect low density home made high explosive, which is more than capable of taking out an aircraft through rapid de-pressurisation.

The makers of Rapiscan admitted it wouldnt have detected the bomb that was strapped to that students thigh last christmas.

Interestingly enough under 18's are exempt because of Child Porn laws, thats one reason why they changed Rapiscans default to delete each scan and not save them unless manually overridden.

I hope they save the pictures somewhere...because damn I'm hot ! :laugh:

No seriously, I think it's a very important question of security to avoid the type of catastrophes we're well aware of. If that saves the lives of many people, then I'm up for it.

I think civil liberties these days is just a delusion rather than an actuality - we already have every part of our lives scrutinised from cradle to grave, and every detail is stored on countless computers. Sensitive and personal information about us is sold on to faceless companies by the very people who are supposed to be safeguarding our privacy. Any random stranger who knows where to look on the internet could find out all there is to know about me in a few clicks of a mouse - my privacy, unfortunately, is no longer sacrosanct.

The "strapped to the thigh" bomb would surely have raised a suspicious eyebrow? Anyway I have nothing against any measure to protect me as I fly, NOTHING!!

Nor me, I would fly naked to be honest, if it meant reducing the risk of any loonys being on board!

Yep, but it doesn't mean that we should become apathetic towards it all and allow ourselves to be "stripped" of all our rights. Sorry, I'll never be in favour of this. More people die from donkeys than do on planes. See what I'm saying? lol

A source would be nice for that, and BTW probably more Donkeys are thrown from church towers in Spain than people who are killed by them.

It's actually a fact. I'll look it up for you if you want. Just trying to highlight the climate of fear we allow to pervade our lives.

Coconuts too. Those lads are deadly.

You definitely don't want to mess with them.

Aimed correctly by a trained operative a Coconut can kill at 20 yards - or, can seriously hamper the reproductive process at 10 yards!

Oh, Kill you soon as look at you. Vicious.

I'm sure I read somewhere that there's more chance of being killed on your toilet than ther is of being killed on a plne... but even still, if they can make it as safe as possible then it's fine with me.

I actually have no fear of flying really, I love it in fact but there is always just that thought that you're thousand of feet in the air with nothing holding you up in a large metal tube.. if anyone goes crazy there's nowhere to run really is there?

If you read my previous post you would have seen that low density explosives wouldnt have been detected. Unless it was so thick as to be obvious.

Seeing as you like sources etc have a ganji at this

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...m-1856175.html

They're obviously not allowed on board as a carry on item. Feck explosives, get the coconuts off the plane stat!

I hate it. I'd rather have my privacy with the miniscule risk of being blown up than letting customs ogle at my ass. Sorry, but that's just me. They invented clothes for a reason you know.

So it would just have looked like a tumour?

A mate of mine was hospitalised by a coconut in Central America a few years ago, he strung a hammock under some coconut trees and a coconut fell on him. They are quite heavy when wrapped in their husk etc.

scroll down and you will find these paragraphs

I flew on September 12th 2001 and it was horrible.. there was no joviality at all at the arport, just silence. Every flight was delayed for hours as security was obviously at it's highest. We weren't allwed anything at ALL on the plane apart from our boarding passes and passports... I even had to put my lipstick in my case :mad:
Every single person was thoroughly searched and frisked..I even had to show them that what they could feel was just the underwire in my bra! But uyou know what? I would not have a problem if security was like that all the time... I was a bit annoyed at having to pack all my hadn luggage in my suitcase but really it was fine and I felt the airport had done as much as they could to make it a safe flight.

I'd say you were lucky that you were able to fly on the 12th, think of all those poor buggers who were forced to land wherever they happened to be on the 11th.

Apart, of course, from the passengers on the 4 aircraft that DIDN'T land!

Yeah.. we were lucky. I phoned the airline in the morning to be told by some inane bint that of course all flights were cancelled.. Luckily I phoned again to recheck and was told that all European flights were ok... not a nice day to fly (probably the safest though)