Flying in 2010

Merry Andrew wrote:

Wanna know my own conspiracy theory? I think the US government is out to destroy the airline industry. Put 'em all out of business so we can create a gov.-owned and operated super system. Pretty soon nobody's going to want to fly a commercial airline any more anyway. What's the point? Aggravation is all.

So, as you see it, the government was behind 9/11 in order to gain the authority to put the commercial airline companies out of business?

"if you don't question a person on a long haul flight without luggage?" plus paid for the ticket in cash.

NPR article today says people aren't really worried about air travel in the US and are chafing at the new restrictions.

Over the past decade, according to BTS, there have been 99,320,309 commercial airline departures that either originated or landed within the United States. Dividing by six, we get one terrorist incident per 16,553,385 departures.

These departures flew a collective 69,415,786,000 miles. That means there has been one terrorist incident per 11,569,297,667 mles flown. This distance is equivalent to 1,459,664 trips around the diameter of the Earth, 24,218 round trips to the Moon, or two round trips to Neptune.

Nor should it be, but flying with the risk of terrorist action is still dramatically safer than just about any other form of travel including walking. I'm glad the majority of Americans understand that and I hope that our government will not spend inordinate amounts of money in a fruitless effort to make us feel safer when the reality is that nothing is really different. From 538.com:

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Over the past decade, according to BTS, there have been 99,320,309 commercial airline departures that either originated or landed within the United States. Dividing by six, we get one terrorist incident per 16,553,385 departures.

These departures flew a collective 69,415,786,000 miles. That means there has been one terrorist incident per 11,569,297,667 mles flown. This distance is equivalent to 1,459,664 trips around the diameter of the Earth, 24,218 round trips to the Moon, or two round trips to Neptune.

. . . but I've been searched every trip but the last. Why???

Brandon9000 wrote:

Merry Andrew wrote:

Wanna know my own conspiracy theory? I think the US government is out to destroy the airline industry. Put 'em all out of business so we can create a gov.-owned and operated super system. Pretty soon nobody's going to want to fly a commercial airline any more anyway. What's the point? Aggravation is all.

So, as you see it, the government was behind 9/11 in order to gain the authority to put the commercial airline companies out of business?

Where, oh where, do you come up with this horseshit, Brandon?

You have absolutely no sense of humour whatever, do you?

Brandon, you simply don't grasp the final/end stages of senile dementia. Some of (such as Mr Andrew) are way past the edges.. Really, your only concern should be that we are welcome in gun stores and both he and I have complete arsenals of weaponry which we intend to use in erasing the blot on humanity called christians. Be very careful on sundays Brandon.