@madisondj: And by the way Mr. Fancy Pants, you do realize that his commerical space flight venture is called Virgin Galactic right? And that there IS a commercial space flight business considering offering "sex in space" opportunities. Or do you just like to run around and bash other comments on the internet instead of making your own? T-R-O-L-L.
@Mike Z: I do remember all the emotional speeches at that time. Passionate they were, and rightly so.
But yes, it seems that passion (hopefully rather than stupidity :)) has trumped logic in airport security. I think if someone really wanted to do something to an aircraft, they could figure out a way to do so no matter what our measures.
I am just curious, and I'm not taking sides either way but fostering discussion: Would we feel different about this if the date was September 15, 2001?