Comments on: Princeton “Bomb” Swarm: The Latest https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/02/princeton-bomb-swarm-the-lates/ Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:49:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Stephanie Z https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/02/princeton-bomb-swarm-the-lates/#comment-547398 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:49:38 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/02/princeton-bomb-swarm-the-lates/#comment-547398 You can, of course, MadScientist. However, given the reporting, we’d have heard if these were high explosives.

]]> By: MadScientist https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/02/princeton-bomb-swarm-the-lates/#comment-547397 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:28:29 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/02/princeton-bomb-swarm-the-lates/#comment-547397 @StephanieZ: You can make liquid explosives (even gaseous ones). You do not need shrapnel to kill – imagine someone throwing a stick of dynamite with a lit fuse into a crowd. I say fuse so that the titanium casing of a blasting cap can’t be invoked as shrapnel. The explosion would shred people and even those further away can suffer fatal internal injuries and without much external sign of injury (few or no bruises). The high pressure gas feels quite solid when it gets to you.

]]> By: Comrade PhysioProf https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/02/princeton-bomb-swarm-the-lates/#comment-547396 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:05:31 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/02/princeton-bomb-swarm-the-lates/#comment-547396 These are clearly Weapons of Mass Destruction. Stephanie, why do you hate America?

]]> By: jay https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/02/princeton-bomb-swarm-the-lates/#comment-547395 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:04:45 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/02/princeton-bomb-swarm-the-lates/#comment-547395 Unless we want to start calling overfilled balloons bombs.

That’s the goal. Then people throwing water balloons can be classified as domestic terrorists (who ov course have no legal right)

]]> By: Stephanie Z https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/02/princeton-bomb-swarm-the-lates/#comment-547394 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:27:36 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/02/princeton-bomb-swarm-the-lates/#comment-547394 Unless those plastic bottles were filled with caustic chemicals or something intended to act as shrapnel, calling them “bombs” is a bit much. The way plastic bottles come apart (say, when you put dry ice in them and seal them up) isn’t perfectly safe, but it’s not bad. That’s a lousy bomb. Unless we want to start calling overfilled balloons bombs.

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