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Curves
06/30/09

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I am still pretty upset that everyone doesnt have an assigned and available parachute. And whats with the tiny air sick bags? Have you seen anyone get sick on a plane? It doesnt do much outside being handy for notes.
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Bryce Clifton
06/30/09

@Curves: You cant open a door at anything over 11,000 feet due to air pressure. Also, Flight Attendants would have to make their safety announcement 20x longer to show people how to use a parachute, not like anyone would pay attention, and no one would know how to use one properly. Oh, and what's to keep it from getting taken off a plane when someone leaves, OR where are you gonna store said chute?

Airsick bags get used everyday. Just cause you've been lucky enough to never get sick doesn't mean there aren't hundreds of others who don't use it every time they fly.
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Curves
06/30/09

@Bryce Clifton: Actually, what I meant was that the bags are too tiny for the people who do get airsick. Try 2 or 3 of them. I am a white knuckle flyer and keep plotting ways to tape them all together to MAKE the parachute.

Oh yeah, and I DO pay attention to the flight attendants with their safety announcements. Usually right before I ask the person sitting next to me if I can hold their hand during take off.
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Geraldo
06/30/09

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I wish airlines would be required to have seats that actually had legroom, didn't make your ass hurt, and had armrests that didn't cut off the circulations in your arms! f* more safety -- fix the things that make domestic air travel such a f*ing pain in the ass! :-)

/rant/ Sorry, I travel about 35-40 weeks a year, and domestic air travel is mostly just tolerable at best.
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Hello Mister Walrus
06/30/09

@Geraldo: You get what you pay for. If you don't think the airplanes are comfortable, you can always upgrade to a higher seating class.
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Hello Mister Walrus
06/30/09

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This might be just me, but I'd rather have lower air fares than airbags that probably won't prevent my death in an already extremely unlikely event of a plane crash.
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TheCapt
06/30/09

@Hello Mister Walrus: I'd rather that they just remove one row of seats, to give me the extra 3 inches of leg room. Oh, and while we are dreaming, a more comfortable seat would be nice too.
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Hello Mister Walrus
06/30/09

@TheCapt: Creating extra legroom without decreasing costs is dreaming. Not increasing costs by not adding airbags and new seats is not dreaming.
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daqman
06/30/09

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It's very simple. You have alternate rows of seats facing backwards, like on trains, then put all the overweight people in the seats pointing backwards. In the case of an accident the forward facing people nosedive into cushioning rolls of fat!
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Hello Mister Walrus
06/30/09

@daqman: What, nuns aren't good enough for you?
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frigg
06/30/09

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Investigators have found that in mid air explosions, passengers often fracture their faces due to rapid deceleration of the plane, causing them to lurch into the back of the seats in front of them. While an air bag could prevent facial fractures, I guess that falls into the category of doesn't matter.
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BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2
06/30/09

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Is it safe to have combustible gas as in the airbags in the case of a crash as theorized above?
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Duckspwn
06/30/09

@BergenCountyJC: Combustible? I was under the impression that airbags used sodium azide, which gives off nitrogen gas when heated.
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BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2
06/30/09

@Duckspwn: When you factor in the rapid decompression of a crash/heat/resonating impact, it probably doesn't matter what's inside but I'm sure the contents are still "under pressure".
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Hello Mister Walrus
06/30/09

@BergenCountyJC: I guess that's a valid concern, though cars have had airbags for decades, so I would think that the mechanisms are pretty fail proof at this point. Plus, there is already highly blow-up-able substance on airplanes - jet fuel.
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