Originally Posted by
Scubatooth
Ron
are you sure about your assumption? the volume that can be stored in the GI track is considerable.The stomach of the average adult can hold 2 liters of fluid. The large intestine in a adult has enough room to store over 2 ft3 of material. If you took any AnP courses you would know that.
Quite sure. Think about the process necessary for someone to do as you propose. Ever had a colonoscopy?
Originally Posted by
Scubatooth
Yeah, I read about that one a while back. Not a viable threat, not to an aircraft.
Originally Posted by
Scubatooth
as for your last sentence, you are the one that needs to lay off the sci-fi movies. A little google search would go along way so you dont insert your toes/foot/ankle/shin/knee/ thigh in your mouth with a healthy dose of crow.
Science fiction I said and Science Fiction I meant. You may quote me. @:-)
To date there has not been a successful use of a surgically implanted explosive device. Given the hurdles that such a theory must overcome I don’t see it happening any time soon. Sure, many news articles out there postulate the idea, but it is not a practical way to introduce an explosive device. There were also news articles about sea monsters once upon a time, giant snake/dragon things eating ships whole. And some people believed those news articles as well.
Originally Posted by
VonS
HUH?
IOW, there is far more to it than your answer provides. Its not that simple.
Originally Posted by
zitsky
I don't mean to attack you, but your attitude is condescending and somewhat disturbing.
It was meant to be. Have you read some of the theories that the folks around this forum believe in this area? If so then you should have the same “attitude” as I.
Originally Posted by
nkedel
Any orifice it can fit into, it can also come out of before being detonated, and anything with a volume enough to hide in a normal-sized shoe will have a total volume small enough to be stuffed up a rectum.
And you are of the opinion that your fellow passengers are not going to notice someone pulling a fairly large object either out of their mouth or their trousers? Something that should not have been there in the first place?
Sorry, but the technical issues presented by placing an explosive device into a body cavity and then removing it for use are enough to make it an unviable proposal. I am no bomb expert, not like an EOD trained bomb tech, but even I can think of many issues that would be difficult to overcome to make such a thing viable.