Originally Posted by
sinanju
A more accurate way of stating the rules as inconsistently enforced would be, "If it isn't bone-solid (marrow not included), it's a liquid."
Gasses and plasmas aren't on the signs either, but they aren't solid.
Sorry, a little late to this party, but are you actually trying to imply that gasses are not permitted? So only solids carried in a perfect vacuum are permissible through the check-point? Or do you also consider a vacuum a gas? Remember this is physics, and as the TSA proves daily, it's not a friendly place for amateurs.
Originally Posted by
RadioGirl
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Yeah, I hear you. But Blogger Bob over at Propaganda Village (see link in my previous post) as much as said it was too much to expect their little brains to deal with all those slide-tables and log-rules to calculate the volume of toothpaste when it's labelled in weight. So they've just decided to ignore established definitions and pretend that oz (fluid) = oz (weight) = oz (merry old land of).
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You're so right. They practiced this garbage science by embarking on the delusion that explosives only exist in a single state of matter, and continue to pronounce to anyone who'll listen (fewer and fewer listen all the time) that all liquids (with exceptions to the nth degree, each exclusion disproving TDA's starting premise) could be explosives and that on-board explosives are halted by confiscating all liquids >3.4 "oz." at the check-point.
Meanwhile the general is horribly delayed as this dumbed down to <zero version of physics and chemistry is foisted on the disbelieving.