future air travel

13th August 06 01:42

Reminissant of PinkFloyd's masterpiece, The Wall, in which the school children, dressed identically in school uniforms, are transported to - a meat-mincer, disturbingly, imagine passengers being loaded in the same way onto aircraft.
This stage, of course, is after each single piece of freight has passed through a scanner where it has been thoroughly inspected for any trace of explosive.
Where they are strapped in to seats (reminissant of the booths in Aliens, the sci-fi classic) for their own safety, (and not at all in a restrained way). Fed intraveneously, the 'freight's' vital signs are monitored and provided for in the form of nutrient 'soup'.
For added security, the aircraft pilot will in fact be a computer, with the craft itself being a drone; the same technology used in warfare exploited.
An appropriate space of time before the aircraft with cargo lands at the fully automated air 'facility', the soup, previously used to ensure constant levels, will adjust the settings to animate the still form. the aircraft will pair to another, similar conveyor and the cargo, like their belongings (having a long time ago, been banned from carry on) is unloaded from the craft. Previously confirmed information, and by which the cargo must stand, unpon threat of heavy fines and incarceration, sees the individual pieces of freight are transferred to an underground train, where they are then deposited in a distribution centre where their form of transport is waiting.
Safe as houses. Until a terrorist of any given belief, discovers a way to insert a virus; in which case untold numbers of frieght will die. Though they'll all be blissfully ignorant of the imminent .