Air trips

Newly i was after long time traveling on vacation via air. And i was thunderstruckt about few very unlogical rulles. I have almost feel, that teroristic attacks wasn't plane-kidnapping, but terroristic attack was that incredibble discomforting of air travelling. When im speculating, what purpose has flying? It's simple - the quickest way of transport. A route that you could do by a plane under one hour, could takes you 12hours, if you use a car. So why isn't it trying to be quick? For what purpose are modern planes so quick, if the background is so slow? I think that if you are travelling by a plane and the naked journey takes hour, you should arrive under hour and half. However, if your depart is at 10 o'clock, they want's from you to be there at 8. Then you must wait the same queues at checkins, customs, inspections and boarding. Isn't it waste? Rulles are another mystery. Currently it is forbidden by European Union to bring into your cabine luggage more than 1litre of liquids. The reason is simple - they are afraid of liquid explosives, like nitroglyceryn. But why is then that exception? Every person could bring with him max. 1l. You couldn't damage the plane enought with 1l of explosives to destroy it!!? There is one more acessary for this rulle - that liquid must be in packs maximum of 100ml. Is it a problem to decant it into one pack, later, behind the security control? Another absurdity (but this one didn't mind me) is that every person could bring a maximum of 2 notebooks. I didn't trust it until i get to the control and woman doing the inspection asked: "computer?". I said: "Yea." She: "Get it out!". I got it out from the bag and she put it on that scroll and let it pass over that scanning machine. I realy don't understand what she wanted to see. She must saw just a big bunch of cables. How could she detect a bomb in that? Is it a problem to get out arbitrary component as battery and put there a bomb with a shape of that component? Even i could do it if i have some spanner and a bomb in few minutes. It's automatic that it's forbidden to bring anything sharp. However, they allowed me to bring my DVDs (i didn't want to get them into my cabine luggage, but i forgot on them). When you broke some DVD, you get IMO fairly dangerous weapon. Next point is a scare from flying. I observed it on everyone around, maybe except stewards and few persons. Someones were closing eyes, else were trying to read books, but they were too nervous, so they were just still shuting them. The Teenagers were still laughting on everything, just to cloak their fear. Others drink wine and prayed for the end (of trip, not life). As totaly ateistic person, that trusts more to statistics, numbers and physics than to Murphy and general cussedness of things, i defended by arguments that planes are the second safest transports on the world (immidiately after ships) and ignored nevousity of others. When we landed i was sad that it was so short (i liked it) but bulk phewed. When we were travelling from airport by a car realised that now should i fear. Cars are the unsafest and most dangerous transports. Decades of people are killed by a cars everyday. I knew someone, who died in car. But i don't know anyone, who knows anyone, who died in plane. But nothing. Blank. I feeled so safe as in my own bed. Air casualities are so known, becouse they are so rare. That world is odd!