Posted on 10/04/2017 7:34:36 PM PDT by harwood
Edited on 10/04/2017 9:04:35 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
ok... I take back everything I said belittling this guy...
WOW we dodged a bullet with this guy. He was MUCH smarter than I gave him credit for.
Yup
Yes, smart, and evil! A frightening combination.
The Sheriff said he was part of a conspiracy or he was ‘super man’ and then took back the super part...
Hollywood.
I said two days ago I thought this was a “staged” attack, but perhaps one that went wrong. Paddock was just one element. Whether or not you believe in a shooter on another floor, I think he had something in mind with the anfo bomb. Maybe someone else was to drive it, got cold feet.
A friend of mine with excellent knowledge of firearms had this reaction:
“Well, if he was shooting at those, then it wasn’t a nut. It was a military operation.”
It is not an actual excerpt. The poster wrote his own ungrammatical words instead of using an excerpt from the article. He also changed the headline!
2005 sign-up.... surely he’s been on FR long enough to know how to post a thread.
Many years messing with jp8 and dorsal and the fact is you simply can’t shoot them and they go boom. You have to provide an accelerant to make it boom.
I repaired grain elevators in Ohio as a High School kid doing State farm labor....
You changed the title of the article and posted a comment of your own instead of anything from the article?
My left fanny agrees.
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More and more it appears the guy had a plan. A major plan for maximum damage to be inflicted. A somewhat smaller version of 911 events. isn’t this the way muzzies plan things?
Except that it may have been very unlikely he could set off the tanks that way, I’m not sure. But if it was ordinary aviation fuel (closer to kerosene) and if the range was more than 650 meters as indicated in the diagram, and it turns out he could not penetrate the metal tanks with his rounds, then it seems like he picked a rather uninformed way to try to set off a big fiery explosion. That would suggest amateur rather than professional work???
I don’t know for sure, I don’t claim to know about the optimal conditions for bullets setting off fuel explosions....
No offense to your friend, but no. Jet fuel is very stable. Iraq we were never worried if our tankers were hit, even by a bomb. The more worry is it catches fire but it will never go boom unless you add lots of oxygen and a spark. Not military operation would target a tank with small arms fire. It would be missile or a detonation of sort.
The tank is rolled steel plate, steel is relatively cheap and life cycle is determined largely by section lose (rust). Much like bridges.
Former pilot, owner of two planes, attacks the airport fuel tank.
Are you reading envy? Cause, I sure am!
Somehow these wingnuts are never engineers, else this stuff would get supremely ugly.
There’s no time for indoctrination in an engineering degree. Speaking from personal experience.
Nothing more than a man made grain dust explosion.
if he had pulled off what he apparently planned perfectly... there might have been more dead than on 9-11.
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