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What’s more, it’s technically just a mineral.
Lemme Google the freezing temp of whatever explodey juice they think we all have.
Dear TSA,
The human body is mostly water. And it’s way more than 3 oz.
Do you think they get mad if I bring plasma
I’m full of plasma, but they never stopped me from flying.
try bringing some in a bag next time, should be fun
Take my upvote and leave
As long as it’s being held in magnetic confinement!
They tend not to care so much about “how safely the hazardous material is stored”
Just ask anyone who’s tried to smuggle on 5lbs of mercury…
Nah, that’s because five pounds would be about 6 fluid ounces of mercury and you’re only allowed 3 ounces of a fluid.
Hey now, no need to bring math into this like a civilized person! You changed the outcome by measuring it!
Bose–Einstein condensate
And a metric ton of helium to keep it cool
If they don’t then you can call them xenophobes for not respecting Sangheili tradition to carry an Energy Sword at all times
you could freeze H2O2 and blow up something later.
But where would someone get the H2O2?
Peroxide?
Strongest I know is 35% concentrated. Not exactly going to blow anything up with that, that is until you try to distill it.
Mix it any organic material- it’s called HPOM (hydrogen peroxide organic matter) in the explosives world. I’ve put craters in the ground using 35% peroxide with cinnamon
Good to know!
You just need to concentrate harder
Nothing could possibly go wrong 🤣
sudo laugh-get [audible]
The main issue you’ll have with the TSA in this case is that you’re using logic
You’re not going to blow up anything with 30 % hydrogen peroxide. It also freezes at -30 C, not gonna freeze easily or stay that way for too long.
For the lazy:
Ice
Carry On Bags: Yes (Special Instructions)
Checked Bags: Yes
Frozen liquid items are allowed through the checkpoint as long as they are frozen solid when presented for screening. If frozen liquid items are partially melted, slushy, or have any liquid at the bottom of the container, they must meet 3-1-1 liquids requirements
You forgot the most important part:
The final decision rests with the TSA officer on whether an item is allowed through the checkpoint.
I would imagine that this is for transportation of medicine that needs to be kept cold like insulin?
It is probably intended for ice packs for things like insulin, but worded vaguely to allow ice in a ziplock bag or a frozen water bottle in place of an ice pack. Most of these rules would benefit massively from stating the purpose of the rule too.
Is there a reasoning for this? The whole liquid thing has to do something with explosives?
It’s because of a particular incident. Similar to what happened with the shoe bomber and why you have to take off your shoes. Things like this are why we can’t have nice things. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_transatlantic_aircraft_plot
Big caveat
The final decision rests with the TSA officer on whether an item is allowed through the checkpoint.
And it’s not the type of crowd that will take a ‘technically correct’ in good sport.
Ah yes, the “rules only apply when I say they do” rule. Much legitimate.
I mean sure, but it theoretically stops people arguing and threatening to try and bring stuff they shouldn’t really be bringing through, as being able to point at that will end a lot of arguments… Equally though, it makes a lot of sense as otherwise you’d have “ah yes this bomb isn’t banned because I’ve switched out a molecule in the explosive for an analogue”
If there is a list of acceptable things, then those specific things are not things they “shouldn’t be bringing on”.
I don’t think they need to make the enforcement of rules ultimately arbitrary to prevent explosives. You already can’t bring explosives. The molecules involved are not relevant.
The mollecular structure isn’t the only thing relevant for bombs.
You could make a bomb out of a pressurized material that you can quickly get to expand, I think that technically isn’t an explosive.
I get your point but I also think having a catch all is good to prevent things that could otherwise get through by technicality.
What actually happens is that some random power tripping TSA agent decides to annoy the fuck out of people he doesn’t like, and when challenged he is protected by this rule.
Inconsistent enforcement of “the rules” is the most common form of systematic marginalization.
It’s also easy of centrists to excuse, since it could happen to anyone, even when the statistic show to it is overwhelmingly correlated with some protected trait.
See, flying isn’t for people who plan. It’s for people who roll 20s and not 1s. You know, lucky people. That’s the message here.
I’ve actually done this successfully. TSA agent knocked on it, and said no problem.
If i somehow would be stopped, I’d love to argue what is liquid or not, and what could be liquid if it’s just hot enough.
Getting denied at security because you’re trying to bring steel beams
You start that argument and they will take you straight to Guantanamo Bay.
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TSA vs Karen, quite a match
The longer they discuss the less it is allowed.
Yup, TSA is on the same level as McDonald’s. You’re arguing with a dipshit who hates you.
…because the ice melts, haha. Oh. You meant something else, right.
Recently, I’m flying quite a lot, so I must try it, just to see if it works.
Huh, I’d have to fly from an airport with outdated scanners LIKE A PEASANT. The ones near me all let you keep your water and leave the laptop in the bag.
I’ve done it before, it does. Though you could get an employee who doesn’t know this, or won’t accept it anyway.
Last two times I flew I brought a metal water bottle (Hydroflask knockoff) filled with ice cubes. Went through fine. Then I added water at a fountain after security and during the flight I got to have that ice-cold water experience I crave.
On my last trip I had a full water bottle with me and the lady said I had to throw it away, so I looked her dead in the eye while I chugged the entire bottle and stuffed the bottle in my bag.
Fuckin tell me I can’t bring the water through again.
https://youtube.com/watch/rD0RDTjqTA4
Came across this video where they were able to take ice through TSA. Your mileage may vary, follow at your own risk.
Or just bring an empty bottle through and fill it up at the tap/water fountain?
If it exists and you can find it …
Some people think tap water tastes bad
I wouldn’t drink tap water outside of continental Europe. Maybe the original OP is simply in a third world country like the US.
Outside of Continental Europe
Oddly specific when of the 10 countries judged to have the equal best tap water quality, 4 are European islands (UK, Ireland, Iceland, Malta) and many Continental European countries score behind the US:
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/water-quality-by-country
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That two tap stuff makes the cold water safe. Don’t drink from the hot tap where they don’t dare mix hot and cold
Canada’s is good in major cities
The tap water in Canberra, Australia is the tastiest I’ve tried out of the ~20-50 municipalities I’ve sampled in Australia, Western and Southern Europe, the US, China, Taiwan and Vietnam.
Also the US is not a third world nation, it’s a developing nation. Or under-developed would be more accurate, but that’s not a popular term. The US is a first world nation by definition, since first world just means the US global empire and it’s allies.
It tasted better in Canberra before the 2013 bushfire, back when it was filtered through pine needles, before they removed all the pine farms
Ah, dang. Yeah I was there before 2013 and it was so noticably delicious. The friend I was visiting said it was the first thing her mother had said when visiting as well, how good the tap water was.
Bummer to hear that’s changed!
Update: It was actually 2003, I was in Theodore at the time. It’s recovered mostly from that bushfire as well as the 2019/2020, when I was visiting while it was happening.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Canberra_bushfires
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019–20_Australian_bushfire_season
https://www.icrc.act.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/1247030/CRES_Submission_2.pdf
Search term from the immediately above link is, ‘why was Canberra’s water so good before the bushfire?’
I have been living in Melbourne since 2017. Canberra’s water still just pips it (Silvan Reservoir area), thanks to the Corin and Bendora dams. Googong water is still terrible (it has a slightly bitter taste, probably because of chlorination treatment) when water from it is required, but they haven’t had to use that for a while. It’s night and day to me, at least when Googong water is involved.
Indeed. You can tell if it’s straight out of Googong Dam also.
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Canadian tap water is generally good
The US has pretty good tap water in most places. Of course there are outliers we are talking about a giant country.
While you are right to trust most tap water in Europe we also have a lot of outliers. Old plumbing being probably the biggest problem. But also the taste can be atrocious. The worst tasting tap water I ever needed to drink was in Barcelona.
Edit: and the worst looking tap water I ever saw was in Paris. (It was old pipes or something as it was brown, almost red)
Btw, why not water?
It throws up a false positive in the old scanners. There are new ones available that don’t have a problem but they aren’t widely available yet.
because muslims can’t drink alcohol, they drink water. The TSA is trying to stop everyone from being terrorrists by only allowing them to buy and drink alcoholic products available after the security controls at the duty free shop.
Sah-wing and a miss
The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact
Nah, I get you were just joking it just didn’t land haha.
Omg… Behold the Arctopus. Damn. That’s something I’ve not thought about in a long time. Rock on, dude.
Security theater. Supposedly there’s a clear liquid explosive that someone tried to get through once. Of course, it’s bullshit, like everything else the TSA says.
Also shoes, because shoe bomb. As Burress says… they better not make a snickers bomb.
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Because it’s frozen (i.e. ice)
Lol
A friend has been challenged when trying to bring a nordic cheese (from Norway to France). The TSA equivalent said that it could be liquid if hot enough. Yeah… glasses too.
They didn’t want France getting wind of their cheese and declaring war on Norway for having the audacity to have non-french cheese
Security agent was just planning a meal for their date later in the night.
