[ghshephard]

What is the alternatives to preventing liquid bombs from bringing down an Airplane? What Matt Blaze is saying, is that instead of eliminating _all_ liquids (which would have also prevented aircraft from catastrophic explosions) - the TSA simply did the engineering to determine what the smallest amount of liquid was required to do significant damage, and then limited bottled liquids to something smaller than that. People can still bring on toothpaste, shampoo, and other useful liquids/medicines, but at the same time can't bring them on in large enough volumes to destroy an airplane.