UK airports in bomb threat chaos

In case you haven't heard, UK security forces say they have foiled a plot to blow up around twenty planes in the air.

At the moment, airports are not admitting any hand luggage apart from passport and boarding pass and there are many security procedures in place causing chaos.

One thing I don't understand that someone might be able to explain is the odd security measure of making people publically taste any liquids they may have on them, such as babies' food. What is the point of this?

If the liquid were actually an explosive then presumably the person carrying it knows this and is prepared to kill themselves on the plane. In that case, I can't see that they would have any qualms about taking a sip of the stuff before boarding,

Originally posted by Wheely
In case you haven't heard, UK security forces say they have foiled a plot to blow up around twenty planes in the air.

At the moment, airports are not admitting any hand luggage apart from passport and boarding pass and there are many security procedures in place causing chaos.

One thing I don't understand that someone might be able to explain is the od ...[text shortened]... I can't see that they would have any qualms about taking a sip of the stuff before boarding,

Originally posted by Wheely
At the moment, airports are not admitting any hand luggage apart from passport and boarding pass and there are many security procedures in place causing chaos.

Originally posted by aging blitzer
Having foiled the plot, these security measures are supposed to be in case there is a backup plan or there is another group they were unaware of.

Well, what if the backup plan is to explode the bombs on trains or the underground instead ?

They did. They foiled a plot.
But in my opinion, temporary extra security measures are pointless.
If someone has an explosive that they can get through the normal security measures, then they can do it tomorrow when this has all blown over.

You have to wonder....What if the plot had not been discovered,what if 20 odd planes had blown up some where over the Atlantic.....What would the World be like today?

Originally posted by shrew
You have to wonder....What if the plot had not been discovered,what if 20 odd planes had blown up some where over the Atlantic.....What would the World be like today?

Originally posted by Wheely
Slightly lighter.

Originally posted by XanthosNZ
How's that work? The bits and pieces of the people and planes would still be around and would still weigh the same.

Originally posted by Wheely
Well, I guess you're right unless we accept the notion of a soul and we accept that it has some weight which, personally, I don't.

Originally posted by Wheely
Well, I guess you're right unless we accept the notion of a soul and we accept that it has some weight which, personally, I don't.

Originally posted by Nordlys
But even if we'd accept the notion of a soul with a weight, does the soul lose its weight (or some of its weight) when the person dies? Or does the soul leave the world? According to some people, hell is located in the centre of the earth, in which case I guess at least the souls of the people who go to hell would still contribute to the weight of the world. Maybe the souls going to heaven wouldn't.

Originally posted by Wheely
Well, my feeling would be that at least some of the souls would leave the Earth. Even if everyone is going to hell, there must, statistically be at least one baby on twenty planes and as we know, a baby is going to go to heaven. If we assume that hell is, in fact, underneath the ground, those souls that enter are not going to add to the overall weight of th ...[text shortened]... ired for all the souls that it already contains, then this only adds strength to my supposition.

Originally posted by Nordlys
Now you are suddenly talking about Earth? I thought we were talking about the World.

Originally posted by Wheely
as we know, a baby is going to go to heaven