Re: CDR: Re: Shoe bomb (fwd)
It will work - provided that you provide a trained anesthetist for every four or so passengers. There's no such thing as a safe, stable anesthetic. Marc de Piolenc Marcel Popescu wrote: The following article is pretty unsettling, in that it makes the case that - the technique is carefully thought out, and - there will be more of these attacks, and - there aren't good ways to stop them. Sleeping gas. Once the plane starts, fill the airplane with something that causes sleep. (Make sure the pilots are isolated, of course). Lots of savings - you don't need stewardesses, you don't need food or drinks... Mark -- Remember September 11, 2001 but don't forget July 4, 1776 Rather than make war on the American people and their liberties, ...Congress should be looking for ways to empower them to protect themselves when warranted. They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin
Re: Shoe bomb (fwd)
The following article is pretty unsettling, in that it makes the case that - the technique is carefully thought out, and - there will be more of these attacks, and - there aren't good ways to stop them. Sleeping gas. Once the plane starts, fill the airplane with something that causes sleep. (Make sure the pilots are isolated, of course). Lots of savings - you don't need stewardesses, you don't need food or drinks... Mark
Re: Shoe bomb (fwd)
The trouble with the sleepy gas idea is that there is no anaesthetic that is guaranteed to both knock out everybody and harm nobody. I'm sure the airlines already thought of it. Why else do they serve so much cheap or free booze on planes? A few prats get aggressive on it but most people just crash out. (An employer once paid for me to travel first-class from London to Cork in Ireland. Not much more than an hour in the air and they offered me a choice of a bottle decent claret or champagne. I chose both. No wonder so many bad business decisions get made.) It's probably safer just shackle everybody to their seats and handcuff them. They can drink soup out of a straw. And give them all compulsory VR helmets with daytime TV. Or old re-runs of the Lucy show. Ken Marcel Popescu wrote: The following article is pretty unsettling, in that it makes the case that - the technique is carefully thought out, and - there will be more of these attacks, and - there aren't good ways to stop them. Sleeping gas. Once the plane starts, fill the airplane with something that causes sleep. (Make sure the pilots are isolated, of course). Lots of savings - you don't need stewardesses, you don't need food or drinks...
