Originally Posted by
YCTTSFM
.... And finally, if these compounds are so easily created, transported, and effective, why isn't this incendiary equivalent of the greatest thing since sliced bread widely used for more common applications?
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Great thought. Imagine if 2 easily obtainable liquids really were easily combined to make a powerful explosive. The improved utility for road construction, mining, depth charge fishing, gopher removal, etc. would be tremendous.
Binary liquid explosives seem to be more and more like the cold fusion hype of the TSA era.
And, as always, even, if this binary liquid pipe dream were feasible, determining explosive potential (that would be rate of exothermic energy release, Ron) by a simple inspection for physical properties, would seem a fool's errand, and I know just the people for it.
Originally Posted by
TSORon
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Richard Colvin Reid, (aka. Abdul Raheem) attempted to detonate his explosive on December 22, 2001. Who is to say that there is not someone else out there planning to use another pair of shoes for this purpose right this minute? You? I?....
Maybe they're planning on using gloves, or chocolate bars, or roach motels. Imagine; all your futile angst about the unlikely to repeat specific details of a previous threat achieving nothing, but huge amounts of wasted energy and lost motion.
Care to explain what TSA was up to between its formation and August 2006 if this tremendous threat was so apparent after Dec., 2001?