# the future of air travel

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-future-of-air-travel/368202>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [August 10, 2006, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-future-of-air-travel/368202 "2006-08-10T19:56:13Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 14, 2006, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-future-of-air-travel/368202/61 "2006-08-14T12:15:04Z")

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[QUOTE=Martini Enfield]  
Honestly, how the hell can they consider books and magazines a threat? Flip them open or run them through the X-Ray machine if you must…  
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I can think of a way of making an exploding book, or rather, taking a book and making it into explosive material, still in the form of a readable book. I’m not going to elaborate, but the method I have in mind would not be easily detectable by X-Ray or by manual/visual scrutiny.

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