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TIAB

Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 719
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Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 10:11 am Post subject: |
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Terrorism is the number one cause of Micheal Bay. |
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ShadowCell
Joined: 02 Aug 2008 Posts: 7395 Location: California
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Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 11:22 am Post subject: |
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Dogen wrote: | It really makes you wonder if any of these terrorists recognize the power they wield over the entertainment industry. I'm not saying shrapnel-filled explosive devices that existed for hundreds of years did inspire the shit show that was Swordfish, and I'm not saying they didn't, but I hope they stop and ask themselves, "Is it possible that I am going to inspire the next shitty John Travolta movie? Do I want that on my conscience?" |
on the contrary, what could be a more potent weapon of terror than that? |
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mouse

Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 21163 Location: under the bed
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Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 11:39 am Post subject: |
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damn, ShadowCell - don't give anyone any ideas! we could end up with a followup to Battlefield Earth!
it is truly horrific. but it is kind of interesting - of course, especially with boston, people are citing past terrorist events in waco - but it is stunningly similar to the explosion of the Grandcamp, which caught on fire while being loaded with ammonium nitrate fertilizer, and then exploded, practically leveling the town of texas city. april 16, 1947 (it was tuesday's headline "this day in history" story in the nytimes, is why i noticed it.)
fertilizer is some seriously dangerous shit. _________________ aka: neverscared!
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fritterdonut

Joined: 24 Jul 2012 Posts: 1458
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Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 12:10 pm Post subject: |
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mouse wrote: | damn, ShadowCell - don't give anyone any ideas! we could end up with a followup to Battlefield Earth!
it is truly horrific. but it is kind of interesting - of course, especially with boston, people are citing past terrorist events in waco - but it is stunningly similar to the explosion of the Grandcamp, which caught on fire while being loaded with ammonium nitrate fertilizer, and then exploded, practically leveling the town of texas city. april 16, 1947 (it was tuesday's headline "this day in history" story in the nytimes, is why i noticed it.)
fertilizer is some seriously dangerous shit. |
You'd be amazed, especially when it comes to stuff being stored in silos. Even things that normally aren't thought of as explosive at all, like flour and sawdust, can explode due to high dust concentrations. They used to use dynamite to help loosen compacted material at the bottom of storage silos, until an ammonium nitrate plant in Germany exploded and killed some five or six hundred people and flattened a town in the 20's. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppau_explosion )
Although any kind of nitrate (-NO3) is bad news when it comes to fires, highly oxidizing chemicals that tend to be stored in bulk quantities due to their agricultural/industrial nature. _________________ The Thirties dreamed white marble and slipstream chrome, immortal crystal and burnished bronze, but the rockets on the covers of the Gernsback pulps had fallen on London in the dead of night, screaming. - William Gibson, The Gernsback Continuum |
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CTrees

Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 3772
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Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 12:40 pm Post subject: |
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mouse wrote: | fertilizer is some seriously dangerous shit. |
urgh _________________ “Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation”
yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation. |
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mouse

Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 21163 Location: under the bed
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Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 1:04 pm Post subject: |
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yeah, i went there. _________________ aka: neverscared!
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mouse

Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 21163 Location: under the bed
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Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 2:09 pm Post subject: |
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hey, the senate passed a gun bill!
....penalizing states for releasing gun ownership data.
well, i certainly feel safer. _________________ aka: neverscared!
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Darqcyde

Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 11917 Location: A false vacuum abiding in ignorance.
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Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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http://finance.yahoo.com/news/mark-zuckerberg-says-it-s-totally-ok-to-ignore-dinner-guests-while-checking-your-phone-150633196.html
Zuckerberg was asked about this at the Facebook Home event (emphasis added) wrote: | Q. Do you ever think about presence? How when you’re out at dinner with your wife, and you get a message, it distracts you from whoever you’re with?
Zuckerberg: “Yeah. That comes up a lot. Whether or not communicating online disconnects you from people offline. [...]. I think that’s overblown. There’s this idea; technology is a tool. Glasses augment your vision, your reality. Steve Jobs said that computers augment your mind. With Facebook and other tools, you can stay connected and get more context from more people.
People often think of staying connected as frivolous — it’s not. It’s powerful |
_________________ ...if a single leaf holds the eye, it will be as if the remaining leaves were not there.
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Kilgore

Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 2834 Location: The Marine Corps
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Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 6:03 pm Post subject: |
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fritterdonut wrote: | mouse wrote: | damn, ShadowCell - don't give anyone any ideas! we could end up with a followup to Battlefield Earth!
it is truly horrific. but it is kind of interesting - of course, especially with boston, people are citing past terrorist events in waco - but it is stunningly similar to the explosion of the Grandcamp, which caught on fire while being loaded with ammonium nitrate fertilizer, and then exploded, practically leveling the town of texas city. april 16, 1947 (it was tuesday's headline "this day in history" story in the nytimes, is why i noticed it.)
fertilizer is some seriously dangerous shit. |
You'd be amazed, especially when it comes to stuff being stored in silos. Even things that normally aren't thought of as explosive at all, like flour and sawdust, can explode due to high dust concentrations. They used to use dynamite to help loosen compacted material at the bottom of storage silos, until an ammonium nitrate plant in Germany exploded and killed some five or six hundred people and flattened a town in the 20's. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppau_explosion )
Although any kind of nitrate (-NO3) is bad news when it comes to fires, highly oxidizing chemicals that tend to be stored in bulk quantities due to their agricultural/industrial nature. |
Not that surprising, given that ammonium nitrate fertilizer was originally developed when the U.S. government needed to repurpose all the explosives it was creating at the end of WWII. _________________ "Whatever afflicts thee, their asses I shall kick"
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ShadowCell
Joined: 02 Aug 2008 Posts: 7395 Location: California
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Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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um, Boston? wtf is going on?
Sam, you okay? |
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CTrees

Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 3772
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Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 2:40 am Post subject: |
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Before anyone gets that feeling of justice at the news one of the Boston bombing suspects has been killed, remember Richard Jewell. _________________ “Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation”
yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation. |
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DeD CHiKn

Joined: 03 Aug 2006 Posts: 10229 Location: Baltimore, Maryla*gunshot*
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Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 2:45 am Post subject: |
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That was our dinner conversation last night. |
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Dennis J. Squidbunny

Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 3879 Location: AUSTRALIA YOU FAKIR
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Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 2:47 am Post subject: |
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Can we get another Boston fester check in? What the fuck is going on out there? _________________ Once, at a local NOW meeting where I was the only male among about a dozen women, a feminism trivia contest was held. I came in third. |
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Bart

Joined: 22 Jul 2006 Posts: 1572
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Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 3:48 am Post subject: |
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Whatever it is, it doesn't look very good. Does anyone know whether the people in the cordoned area have been evacuated ? A cornered terrorist in an area with lots of civilians seems like a recipe for disaster. |
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fritterdonut

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