Originally Posted by SJC1K
This is of course exactly right. Just as a bizarre example: When I was a teenager, one day I was a passenger in two unrelated, non-weather-related automobile accidents, with two different adult drivers (who were parents of friends). The odds of that happening, estimated at the time I got up, must have been astronomically small. But once the first accident happened, the odds of the second accident happening were no different than they would have been had the first one not happened.
So you mean it's NOT a good idea to carry a bomb on a plane using the logic that the chances of two bombs being on a plane are so much lower than the chance of just one?
Umm, just in case it's not obvious, yeah, I know the answer.