Nothing to fear from liquid bombs on planes?

A very interesting article over at The Register gives good reason to believe that there was actually nothing to worry about during the big aeroplane bomb scare last weekend.

Basically according to the article the supposed deadly 'binary liquid' bombs (a binary bomb is one where two components need to be mixed to cause an explosion) are essentially a myth. The anti-terrorism experts, who have clearly watched Die Hard too many times, and need to brush up on their chemistry. Mixing the chemicals in flight would have not been a case of nipping to the lavs and dumping a couple of bottles of liquid into the toilet causing a huge explosion. What would actually need to be done is at least a couple of hours of careful preparation to create a mixture potent enough to do any real damage. Hardly likely to avoid the attention of the passengers and crew.

If prepared in advance the explosive would have been a simple white powder but unstable enough that a terrorist would be more likely to blow themselves up in the taxi on the way to the airport than at a precise time on the plane.

Check out the article, enlightening stuff and yet more evidence of the fear culture we are living in where barely qualified 'experts' are directing policy based purely on their own ignorant paranoia.

Guess the terrorists should just switch to snakes, explosives are so last year.