At 04:46 PM 12/27/01 -0800, Tim May wrote: >Easy to imagine safer activators. A magnet arrangment, where an external >magnet pulls something. A dual activator system, where two switches must >be closed simultaneously, ampoules to be broken or pierced under the >skin, and so on.
Yeah but then you have to explain that you have an implant or somesuch when you trigger the magnetometer. This 'dual activator system' ---the equivalent of a mechanical pin you must pull or push to arm the primary trigger--- is the solution to the mechanical trigger problem. >A person willing to martyr himself is almost assured of being able to >take down a plane. If all you want to do is drop it, a perfume bottle with some volitile nerve agent will work ---do pilots have separate air? Amusingly, a plane flew over rural NorCal, pilotless, after it escaped while being worked on. Presumably it crashed somewhere in the hills. No talk of F15s because the un-pilot called the FAA. And, a small plane (piloted by arabic-surnamed but nonhostile people, because Allah has a twisted sense of humor) crashed a mile from San Onofre ---communities around which may be offered KI, its also reported. Curiouser and curiouser. ----- Imagine if Jim "butyric acid" Bell had been a mujahadeen... dimethyl mercury, anyone?
