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To: Geoff Goodfellow who wrote (25987)	9/7/2005 4:43:06 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 29987

Hello Geoff. The retreat from Prague, the refugees from New Orleans; California is the best place on Earth [in many ways anyway]. But make sure you are well above sea level - the Pacific tsunami is going to make your Prague experience and New Orleans look trivial. Thanks for the link and your article. It's surprising that such high value people as airline passengers have been cut off from the rest of the world for 10 hours at a time for a decade while cyberspace has filled the aether elsewhere. Airlines and governments are notable for lack of imagination, so it's not surprising that they are still operating in the 20th century. <conneXion by Boeing expects to break even in the 2008-2009 time frame and that use by 15-20% of the passengers per flight will put it into the black. > They will make a LOT of money from people choosing Lufthansa instead of olde style airlines which worry that the magical cyberspace radiation will cause the aircraft to crash. The worry about talking on a cellphone in an airliner being annoying to others is also silly because an airliner is not like a church. There is a high level of white noise and voices don't reverberate around the cabin. It's a highly sound absorbing environment. One can barely hear a neighbouring passenger, let alone one on the other side of the cabin. Neither are cellphones dangerous from an interference point of view. Al Qaeda could carry on board a dozen cellphones, wait until the flight is taking off or landing, then turn them all on and hide them somewhere. Nobody would notice. They would not succeed in causing a crash. I imagine that when cyberphones and other gadgets have methanol-powered fuel cells, the airlines will get all prissy about the methanol or ethanol being carried. Safety you know. People used to carry litres of whisky, light fires on aircraft [cigarettes] and never caused fires. Methanol is no more hazardous than a litre of whisky in a fragile bottle, which can be used as an excellent terrorist weapon - smash the bottle, light the liquid, threaten people with the jagged bottle [hold the neck of the bottle as a handle]. Much more effective than nail clippers, which are not allowed. Mqurice