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Never fails to amuse me that in order to fight to “threat” of binary explosives i.e. two liquids that explode when mixed together…
by definition this occurs before security, so anybody that wanted to could just bring a regular explosive
Aren't the dogs trained to sniff out regular explosives?
Generally speaking, police dogs are trained to alert on command and are not used for actual investigation.
Yes, SAR dogs exist and properly trained dogs exist as well. However, the overwhelming evidence shows dogs are not a reliable tool when used by police.
Welcome to the downfall of an empire.
Cop: say woof.
Dog: what, right now?
Cop: yeah.
Dog: but I don't smell anything...
Cop: I'll give you a treat.
Dog: woof woof woof!
Most of the airports in the US have some sort or chemical detector too. I always get my hands swapped going through PDX because I brought so scary looking circuit boards with my carryon 5 years ago.
What do they swap them with?
Are they shipped separately?
It’s been a few years, but they are white round pads, probably 3 inches wide. I’m not sure what’s on the pad, probably a solvent of some kind.
The pads go in a machine about the size of an larger microwave oven which I believe uses NMR to scan for nitrates and other kinds of explosive residue.
It was a pair of highschool level sumo robots, lots of wires and motors and gears.
In case you haven't realised, the correct word is swab/swabbed. You are being made fun of for swapping the correct word for a different word.
I think you mean swabbing the correct word.
Yeah, but just like an M-80 so the whole checkpoint is splattered with drink and hand lotion.
I prefer my explosives non-binary, thank you very much.
That’s actually way more common than the government wants you to believe;-)
Not a big enough target for terrorists.
Imagine having planned the next 9/11 but then instead you have to just blow up part of an airport instead 😒
IDK Boeing is doing a good enough job in the air, maybe it’s time to move on to ground based targets.
TSA would just set up a checkpoint-checkpoint and add a few hours to our departures… yeah, I think this is going to work for everyone!