http://emergentchaos.com/archives/2006/09/inconceivable-levels-of-destruction.html The Emergent Chaos Jazz Combo Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:20:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://emergentchaos.com/archives/2006/09/inconceivable-levels-of-destruction.html/comment-page-1#comment-2555 dbs Fri, 01 Sep 2006 08:58:26 +0000 http://emergentchaos.com/?p=1919#comment-2555 The talk about the amount of destruction that could be caused by these 'bombers' is ridiculous, because the basic tenet of their plot was wrong. The 'TATP bombs' that theoretically could just be mixed together and VOILA! Instant bomb! Were primarily fantasy. <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/17/flying_toilet_terror_labs/" rel="nofollow">the register</a> has a very good article pointing out that it takes hours under controlled conditions to make those mixtures work. Something that would be nigh on impossible on an airliner (things like the mixture has to happen over hours, in very cold temperatures. Hardly something plausible in an airline bathroom. The hype and threat coming from this 'plot' are ridiculously overblown. Sure, someone was planning it, yes they should be investigated, but the level of hysteria going on is so vastly out of proportion to the threat it's gone beyond ridiculous into flat out surrealism. The talk about the amount of destruction that could be caused by these ‘bombers’ is ridiculous, because the basic tenet of their plot was wrong. The ‘TATP bombs’ that theoretically could just be mixed together and VOILA! Instant bomb! Were primarily fantasy.
the register has a very good article pointing out that it takes hours under controlled conditions to make those mixtures work. Something that would be nigh on impossible on an airliner (things like the mixture has to happen over hours, in very cold temperatures. Hardly something plausible in an airline bathroom.
The hype and threat coming from this ‘plot’ are ridiculously overblown. Sure, someone was planning it, yes they should be investigated, but the level of hysteria going on is so vastly out of proportion to the threat it’s gone beyond ridiculous into flat out surrealism.

]]> http://emergentchaos.com/archives/2006/09/inconceivable-levels-of-destruction.html/comment-page-1#comment-2554 alecm Fri, 01 Sep 2006 03:41:54 +0000 http://emergentchaos.com/?p=1919#comment-2554 watch <a href="http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/08/081006.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/08/081006.html</a> and maybe the one for the day after. alec watch http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/08/081006.html
and maybe the one for the day after.
alec

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