A modest proposal: How to build a binary liquid explosive bomb using materials commonly found inside airport security
A typical bomb requires two components: oxidizer and fuel. In liquid form, these components are thoroughly mixed then detonated.
While the 2006 plot attempted to use peroxide as an inferior oxidizer, we instead propose using the best oxidizer there is, successfully used by NASA to win the race to the Moon: liquid oxygen. The TSA permits the 21% concentrated oxygen that composes the atmosphere to breeze through security, so it may be readily extracted, purified, and liquified in the sterile area.
If you have a good enough oxidizer, practically any combustible material can be used as fuel. As confirmed on the television program Mythbusters, a sausage can be used as fuel. Therefore, we make the following modest proposal for fuel: people. America's obesity problem benefits the would-be terrorist as fat has especially high energy density compared to protein. Despite this well-recognized tremendous potential as fuel for deadly harm, the TSA still does not confiscate humans at the security checkpoint, so human meat may be readily extracted, purified, and liquified in the sterile area.
The remaining trivial details of bomb constuction are left as an exercise for the reader.
See also the 1000-megaton (1 gigaton) human-powered bomb as the theoretical upper limit of the destructiveness.
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