Posted on 08/13/2006 8:39:23 AM PDT by robert jones
One way to end terrorism on airplanes would be to have separate planes for baggage. With a minimal crew and no one else on board, an inexpensive baggage plane would not be a very attractive terrorist target. Without baggage the passenger plane would be as safe from internal attack as possible. Terrorists could only sneak on board with nonmetallic objects that they have swallowed or that they can, um, stuff up their rectums.
A simple-minded implementation of such a scheme would be to halve the number of passenger flights, an inconvenience that many would put up with for the sake of eliminating the inconvenience currently attending the flying experience. Our free enterprise system, however, would surely find improvements.
For some people, that's the way it is now.
Shirley, I can be series! :O)
No problem, I've had that happen to me before, that is, post something that basically reiterated what was said earlier in the thread. I think that is inevitable given the great minds that make up Free Republic. Great idea about the towed "baggage carrier". If people didn't think outside the box, we'd never innovate.
IATZ
"People on one flight, luggage on another."
They do this to me nearly everytime I fly. This is new?
Wow that nose is HUGH!
Or as Steveo would say....
"But then again I'm not an insane religious zealot hiding behind a facade of peace bent on destroying mankind."
C'mon Sam, ya ain't thinkin' like a capitalist.
Bring back SLEEPERS.
Instead of overhead bins to stuff bags, you now have a comfy bed to sleep on that red-eye..
To quote the comic Blake Clark: "What does TWA stand for? Travel with Arabs? Terrorist with Airplane? That's why I fly on Delta. Don't Even Let Them Aboard!"
Another solution would be to segregate the passengers into "Muslim" and "Otherwise", and put them on their own plane. That way, if they blow up the plane, who cares!
Shirley, I can be series! :O)
I AM serious! And DON'T call me Shirley!
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