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Re:U.S. To Ban Laptops in All Cabins of Flights from Europe by stevenwoo on Thursday May 11, 2017 @02:54AM (#14314265)
I know you're joking but it seems like it is possible that Richard Reid the shoe bomber could have inserted the explosives inside a plastic bag and then put that inside himself (either swallow it or in the rectum) and then remove the explosive in the airplane bathroom and ignited it. Not sure why they have not done this already.
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Re:U.S. To Ban Laptops in All Cabins of Flights from Europe by mirimir on Thursday May 11, 2017 @03:36AM (#14314406)
In Gibson's Count Zero, Turner was almost killed by a "Slamhound", an exploding dog trained to find him. I vaguely recall that the dog's liver was replaced by explosive.
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Re:U.S. To Ban Laptops in All Cabins of Flights from Europe by arethuza on Thursday May 11, 2017 @04:09AM (#14314513)
Sounds vaguely like the Soviet anti-tank dogs from WW2:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tank_dog

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Re:U.S. To Ban Laptops in All Cabins of Flights from Europe by mirimir on Thursday May 11, 2017 @04:52AM (#14314696)
Wow. That's crazy. And it didn't work, either. But humans arguably wouldn't get confused so readily.

Even so, they'd just X-ray all passengers.

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Re:U.S. To Ban Laptops in All Cabins of Flights from Europe by zkms on Thursday May 11, 2017 @06:42AM (#14315075)
There already exist commercial transmission (not backscatter!) full-body x-ray security scanners. They are used in prisons now, but there's no reason they can't be used in airports.
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