Newest threat: " toothpaste bombs" by NewOldBrownCoat

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Newest threat: " toothpaste bombs"

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UPDATED: Thursday, February 6, 2014 14:05
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Thursday, February 6, 2014 1:46 PM

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/02/05/world/europe/sochi-security-toothpas
te/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

The TSA ain't gonna be happy until every passenger travels naked, with no luggage of any sort.

If I read the story thoroughly enough, there's no evidence that anybody has ever made one; ever used one; it's just a bad idea somebody in counter-terrorism dreamed up. It's POSSIBLE- SOMEBODY, SOMEWHERE COULD actually try it.

I wonder how much damage you could really do with an explosive device that size-- destroy a plane? Cause a crash? Wound or kill a bunch of the passengers? Inconvenience a lot of folks? Or just set fire to yourself, like the underwear bomber did? Adam? Jamie?

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Thursday, February 6, 2014 2:05 PM

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The volume limitations thing is one of the few rules the TSA had that makes some sense. If you contain plastic explosives to a small volume, you limit the energy of the reactionboth because of the quantity of the material and because of the container. Even if you have a lot of the stuff spread out over a lot of small volume containers.

'S why most people using a bomb calorimeter don't end up blowing up their chemistry lab. We did have to evacuate a few times though.

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