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May. 24th, 2003 03:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scottobearThe Yale bombing is interesting to me... perhaps there were more rare books in the collection than rare law books...
Something else: while I keep hearing about a large fireball, I've not seen any news reports mentioning shrapnel.
The news media might be using "pipe bomb" as a generic term for an improvised explosive device (IED). A traditional pipe bomb is made from a metal pipe (go figure) and almost always leaves some of the pipe intact. See: http://www.cnn.com/US/9607/27/pipe.bomb.explain/ for an explanation.
Shrapnel is well known, of course: http://www.unioncountynj.org/police/bomb.htm
"A pipe bomb can easily kill someone who is 300 feet away from the explosion because it will throw many pieces of shrapnel in all directions. "
So... you could have an IED composed of a paper towel tube with explosive filler and timing mechanism. There would be some blast damage, but no shrapnel. Even if people are nearby there is a good chance they will survive. I wonder why I've not seen more about the Yale bomb in LJ?
The Kiwano is a delicious fruit, contrary to what some might tell you. Hooray for the exotic fruit finder!
The wonderful thing about veggie corn dogs is that the originals really didn't need the .00000000017 grams of meat to taste like regular tasty corn dogs and they go great with a side of kiwano salad.
Note, that they no longer use the starlink corn, though I was eating them at that time, too, and didn't suffer for it.
Something else: while I keep hearing about a large fireball, I've not seen any news reports mentioning shrapnel.
The news media might be using "pipe bomb" as a generic term for an improvised explosive device (IED). A traditional pipe bomb is made from a metal pipe (go figure) and almost always leaves some of the pipe intact. See: http://www.cnn.com/US/9607/27/pipe.bomb.explain/ for an explanation.
Shrapnel is well known, of course: http://www.unioncountynj.org/police/bomb.htm
"A pipe bomb can easily kill someone who is 300 feet away from the explosion because it will throw many pieces of shrapnel in all directions. "
So... you could have an IED composed of a paper towel tube with explosive filler and timing mechanism. There would be some blast damage, but no shrapnel. Even if people are nearby there is a good chance they will survive. I wonder why I've not seen more about the Yale bomb in LJ?
The Kiwano is a delicious fruit, contrary to what some might tell you. Hooray for the exotic fruit finder!
The wonderful thing about veggie corn dogs is that the originals really didn't need the .00000000017 grams of meat to taste like regular tasty corn dogs and they go great with a side of kiwano salad.
Note, that they no longer use the starlink corn, though I was eating them at that time, too, and didn't suffer for it.
