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>Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 17:10:46 -0400
> Mike Lorrey <mlorrey@datamann.com> extropians@extropy.org Re: FAIR WARNING: A GUN cartoon. I happen to like this one...Reply-To: extropians@extropy.org
>
>jeff davis wrote:
>> --- Eugene Leitl <Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
>> wrote:
>> > On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Michael M. Butler wrote:
>> >
>> > > Go ahead, call me any name you like. This one
>> > really does feel good.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > https://www.keepandbeararms.com/images/sept11_b.jpg
>> >
>> > Except that the terrorrists would then have guns,
>> > too, and unless everybody was loaded frangible the plane would be
>> > downed in no time, being shot full of holes.
>> >
>>
>> I don't see how fifty or a hundred or even two hundred
>> bullet holes through the fuselage of a large airliner
>> would do anything more than depressurize the plane.
>>
>> I think this is something like an urban legend.
>
>The bullet would create a hole that would be spread open like a peeled
>spam can for at least a foot or two by the pressure differential. Anyone
>within 6-10 feet who was not belted down would get sucked out (depending
>on altitude, of course). It would not cause the entire plane to explode
>or go down, and the danger would cease once pressure equalized. Many
>airliners that have suffered from decompression have safely landed.
>
>So, while some innocent people might die as a result, most passengers
>would likely survive.
>
>I think that this is a far better scenario than to just write off a
>planeload of unarmed people who got hijacked....
>
But the combination of an armed and anonymous sky marshall with aircraft rounds and a secure cockpit access door would be even safer.
>
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