Posted on 09/21/2015 11:30:08 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
You know . . . the one that looks like a suitcase bomb?
I want to remind you of a story that emerged in the aftermath of 9/11, because it demonstrates something about how people process information they’re given. When the first of the Twin Towers collapsed, or so the story went, there was a man standing on the roof. As the building went down, the man “surfed the building to the ground” and walked away. This circulated for a couple of days and was widely accepted as true.
But of course, it wasn’t true. No one can “surf” a building more than 100 stories to the ground and walk away. It’s absurd on its face, and once it was revealed as baloney, people who believed it felt like morons. But at a time when something has happened that no one could have quite imagined, your entire frame of reference for what’s real and what’s possible gets thrown into question. You become open to suggestions that you would never have considered because you’re simply not sure what to believe.
So let’s go now to the story of the moment, in which 14-year-old Ahmed Mohammed supposedly “invented a clock” and brought it to school, only to have teachers and other school officials freak out because it looked like a suitcase bomb. And since Ahmed is Muslim, well, discrimination, Islamophobia, blah blah blah. And needless to say, school officials and police didn’t help matters by actually handcuffing the kid in a clear example of what the Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto has long identified as the insanity of “Zero Tolerance” policies.
You may have called it a detonator, but you were using the wrong terminology. The detonator is the proximate device that causes detonation, and what you are referring to is simply a trigger.
Now, if we were talking low order explosives, it is possible for something to be both a trigger and a detonator, but not with high order explosives. Just doesn’t work that way.
Fine, tell these guys they are wrong then:
http://precisionblastinginc.com/home.html
http://precisionblastinginc.com/contact-us.html
Go ahead.
No, the blasting cap itself is the detonator, what you are referring to is a trigger.
“BLASTING CAP (see detonators) – A metallic tube closed at one end, containing a charge of one or more detonating compounds, and designed to initiate detonation.”
“DETONATORS – Blasting caps, electric blasting caps, delay electric blasting caps, and non-electric delay blasting caps.”
http://www.dicle.edu.tr/a/oakkoyun/dersler/mds421files/Glossary_of_Blasting_Terms.htm
Nah, they’re not posting bad information to me, but you are, so I’ll just tell you that you are wrong.
LOL.
Funny man that you are.
Blasting cap.
Funny, that’s a word used previously.
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Cell+Phone+Detonator&FORM=IDINIP
Here’s some stuff we were told to watch out for in the military.
Notice anything?
Got to have a sense of humor to deal with ignorant people who think they know what they are talking about.
LOL, yes.
I love using humor when peoole initially try to imply clocks can’t be used in such a fashion.
Then they go off on a magical adeventure tangent trying to tell a guy who worked with kinestix, comp b, and military hardware that he is wrong.
You’re really desperate eh?
I’m sure we could find google searches of people using all sorts of terms incorrectly, but that wouldn’t prove anything :)
Well, you are wrong. I’m sorry, but experience doesn’t prevent you from making a bonehead mistake, like not realizing the difference between basic components like triggers and detonators.
Desperate?
No.
Amused by you.
Yes.
Well, I’m glad me correcting your errors amuses you.
Be glad I told you about clocks being used as bombs.
Yeah, like I really didn’t ever hear of that before.
Did you know I’ve never seen a Hollywood action film in my life??? It’s true you know.
“Did you know I’ve never seen a Hollywood action film in my life??? It’s true you know.”
http://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3339515/posts?page=29#29
Which brings us back to YES, a clock was used for a bomb.
And in the Lockerbie Pan Am bombing, a cassette player was used.
“Which brings us back to YES, a clock was used for a bomb.”
This was never the issue in dispute, so what you are doing is just moving the goalposts.
You really are desperate.
I’m not the one mentioning this isn’t the movies, implying that it doesn’t happen.
It does, did, and will continue to happen until people wake the heck up.
Or we’re going to see a “Beslan” happen.
More likely the latter.
“I’m not the one mentioning this isn’t the movies, implying that it doesn’t happen.”
No, that wasn’t the implication. The implication is that everyone knows that clocks can be used in bombs, unless they are so isolated as to have never seen a Hollywood movie. So in reality, you didn’t inform me of anything.
Sorry, I forgot you were so slow that you needed to have every little thing spelled out for you.
“No, that wasn’t the implication.”
Sure, sport.
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