[Fluffy]

mm I though this meassures were overreacting, but then I did some math:

300 passengers, 50 years of average life expectancy (probably should be lower), 365 days 24 hours.... 131.400.000 hours of life wasted on a bomb.

1 hour, for 100.000.000 passengers/year is worth it if it gets rid of a single attack.

[jdonn]

Fluffy, on Jan 5 2010, 06:28 AM, said:

mm I though this meassures were overreacting, but then I did some math:

300 passengers, 50 years of average life expectancy (probably should be lower), 365 days 24 hours.... 131.400.000 hours of life wasted on a bomb.

1 hour, for 100.000.000 passengers/year is worth it if it gets rid of a single attack.

An economist would agree, but 99,999,900 people might disagree. Also there are other considerations, such as the money spent to prevent an attack. Or that there might be a better way to prevent one. Or that some of those people you cost an hour of time miss their flight and lose much more. Or that all the people rushing to make their flights cause more traffic on the highway and cost a lot more people time. You can't reach a conclusion about something this complicated by just comparing overall efficiency in the way you are trying to do.

[hotShot]

Fluffy, on Jan 5 2010, 12:28 PM, said:

mm I though this meassures were overreacting, but then I did some math:

300 passengers, 50 years of average life expectancy (probably should be lower), 365 days 24 hours.... 131.400.000 hours of life wasted on a bomb.

1 hour, for 100.000.000 passengers/year is worth it if it gets rid of a single attack.

From the year 2007 the number of passengers handled by American airports:

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport______ 89,38 Mio. 2007
Chicago O'Hare International Airport__________________ 76,18 Mio. 2007
Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport_______________ 59,79 Mio. 2007
Los Angeles International Airport_____________________ 59,50 Mio. 2008
Denver International Airport__________________________ 49,87 Mio. 2007
Las Vegas McCarran International Airport______________ 47,73 Mio. 2007
New York John F. Kennedy International Airport________ 47,53 Mio. 2007
Houston George Bush Intercontinental Airport__________ 42,98 Mio. 2007
Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport______________ 42,20 Mio. 2007
Flughafen Orlando_____________________________________ 36,48 Mio. 2007
Newark Liberty International Airport__________________ 36,41 Mio. 2007
Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport_____________ 35,97 Mio. 2007
San Francisco International Airport____________________35,79 Mio. 2007
Minneapolis-Saint Paul International____________________35,16 Mio. 2007
Miami International Airport_____________________________ 33,74 Mio. 2007
Flughafen Charlotte_____________________________________ 33,17 Mio. 2007
Flughafen Philadelphia__________________________________ 32,21 Mio. 2007
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport____________________ 31,30 Mio. 2007
Boston Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport______ 28,10 Mio. 2007
Flughafen New York-LaGuardia____________________________ 25,30 Mio. 2007

The 3 airports of New York (JFK, Newark, LaGuardia) alone reach the 100.000.000 passengers you assumed.

[Fluffy]

I could sense my numbers were wrong :/. well then lets get them get ripped

[PassedOut]

Thinking outside the box, the Obama administration has figured out a way to improve airport safety and cut health care costs at the same time: Utilizing full body scans

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In what some in the White House are calling a "win/win" solution to the nation's airport security and health care reform problems, starting next month U.S. airports will begin conducting full body scans that will double as annual physical checkups.

This will help the airlines, too, as everyone will be required to fly at least once per year.

[cherdanno]

Uhm, I think even the most optimistic TSA freaks won't expect the additional security to reduce the number of successful airplane bombs by one per year.

[neilkaz]

Here's today's good news ...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100107/ap_on_...port_evacuation

A little incompetance and a huge delay and wasted resources result. I do think that many airports need to hire a better level of employee and pay them better.

.. neilkaz ..

[neilkaz]

And here we see another example of government run amok.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/14/nyregion...no_interstitial

[hotShot]

Sorry for this off-topic post, but does anybody know when medicine will allow brain transplants?