Yeah, for the record, a certain portion of men have known how to blow things up for centuries now, long before “I.T.” or the Internet.
Now any guy with just a little curiosity can learn how to do things ranging from black powder pipe bombs to pressure cooker versions up through truck bombs like the first WTC attack and Oklahoma City. Honestly the things are not that complicated. It’s really about the will to do it. And if a guy has decided to die in the blast the complexity of remote detonation or trusting timers and fuses, well he makes sure it works.
I am actually surprised we haven’t yet seen more sophisticated attacks. It’s not that hard to fly drones with pipes. The software for a sentry gun (demonstrated multiple times with paintball “markers” as proxies) was freely available for a while.
The think about destruction is sometimes guys follow a script that has so imprinted on their consciousness that they don’t actually accomplish anything at all. Remember the guy who flew a Cessna into an IRS office building? Sheer symbolism.
To make one of that size, you have to really, really know what you are doing. And to get the materials without showing up on a thousand lists you have to really know what you are doing in that respect as well.
Not necessarily true. Plenty of code jockeys out there who learned how to program in CS programs or bootcamps who don't know jack about wiring or hardware.
Unless it’s corporate IT. Some of those guys only know how to send emails and reply “have you opened a ticket?” yet you can’t fire them because diversity quotas.
to make a bomb that you suicide in, literally one button, a battery pack, and some kind of heat element or fuse. I can think of one extremely easy possibility but i'm not going to say it and wind myself up on a fbi watch list. If you want remote detonation, it's not that much more complicated, any rc hobby shop would have the necessary supplies or could probably get off of amazon. We aren't talking about some kind of hollywood style, 800 wires inside, bomb. Does not take an electronics engineering degree to make these kind of circuits, not that much knowledge at all.
Yes, in fact any curious man of average or above intelligence can make explosives. You don’t need formal training to learn much any longer. And basic explosives are really simple. Plenty of YouTube videos walk you through things like making your own black powder or rocket fuel. Well if you have enough of such material in a confined space when it ignites the difference between rapid burning and explosion is really just a question of pressure and speeds. Pipe bombs and pressure cooker bombs force the chemical reaction to reach a much higher pressure until they finally fail rapidly and the very vessel becomes shrapnel sent flying by the blast wave.
Did you know gasoline has an energy content approaching TNT? In a car’s engine a tiny amount of gas is sprayed into the cylinder where it is mixed with air and ignited for an explosion that drives the piston. We call them internal combustion engines, ICE, but at some point rapid combustion is explosion, hence fuel air explosives.
Don’t get me wrong, advanced explosives are beyond the capacity of most individuals, but you don’t need some amazing shaped charge with lensing and an EFP to do some damage.
I would not encourage anybody to start learning this stuff now because of what’s coming, but I think it’s fascinating and part of basic knowledge of chemistry and history. You don’t have to plan on being a mechanic to take a few minutes to learn how cars work.
But like sufficient that it would be easy to make a bomb?
Yeah for sure...
Every computer repairmen could double as a bomb manufacturer with a few extra steps of training?
In shitholes they train people who don't know how to do much more than pick shit out of fields to make IEDs... so yeah I think an educated person could make do.
He had an IT background, but there's no indication he had an electronics background. All kind of weird.
idk, in all my experience if your in IT, you also know how to make basic electronic circuits and wire up basic electrical shit..
Yeah, for the record, a certain portion of men have known how to blow things up for centuries now, long before “I.T.” or the Internet.
Now any guy with just a little curiosity can learn how to do things ranging from black powder pipe bombs to pressure cooker versions up through truck bombs like the first WTC attack and Oklahoma City. Honestly the things are not that complicated. It’s really about the will to do it. And if a guy has decided to die in the blast the complexity of remote detonation or trusting timers and fuses, well he makes sure it works.
I am actually surprised we haven’t yet seen more sophisticated attacks. It’s not that hard to fly drones with pipes. The software for a sentry gun (demonstrated multiple times with paintball “markers” as proxies) was freely available for a while.
The think about destruction is sometimes guys follow a script that has so imprinted on their consciousness that they don’t actually accomplish anything at all. Remember the guy who flew a Cessna into an IRS office building? Sheer symbolism.
To make one of that size, you have to really, really know what you are doing. And to get the materials without showing up on a thousand lists you have to really know what you are doing in that respect as well.
Not necessarily true. Plenty of code jockeys out there who learned how to program in CS programs or bootcamps who don't know jack about wiring or hardware.
I specifically said IT not development...
Unless it’s corporate IT. Some of those guys only know how to send emails and reply “have you opened a ticket?” yet you can’t fire them because diversity quotas.
to make a bomb that you suicide in, literally one button, a battery pack, and some kind of heat element or fuse. I can think of one extremely easy possibility but i'm not going to say it and wind myself up on a fbi watch list. If you want remote detonation, it's not that much more complicated, any rc hobby shop would have the necessary supplies or could probably get off of amazon. We aren't talking about some kind of hollywood style, 800 wires inside, bomb. Does not take an electronics engineering degree to make these kind of circuits, not that much knowledge at all.
Yes, in fact any curious man of average or above intelligence can make explosives. You don’t need formal training to learn much any longer. And basic explosives are really simple. Plenty of YouTube videos walk you through things like making your own black powder or rocket fuel. Well if you have enough of such material in a confined space when it ignites the difference between rapid burning and explosion is really just a question of pressure and speeds. Pipe bombs and pressure cooker bombs force the chemical reaction to reach a much higher pressure until they finally fail rapidly and the very vessel becomes shrapnel sent flying by the blast wave.
Did you know gasoline has an energy content approaching TNT? In a car’s engine a tiny amount of gas is sprayed into the cylinder where it is mixed with air and ignited for an explosion that drives the piston. We call them internal combustion engines, ICE, but at some point rapid combustion is explosion, hence fuel air explosives.
Don’t get me wrong, advanced explosives are beyond the capacity of most individuals, but you don’t need some amazing shaped charge with lensing and an EFP to do some damage.
I would not encourage anybody to start learning this stuff now because of what’s coming, but I think it’s fascinating and part of basic knowledge of chemistry and history. You don’t have to plan on being a mechanic to take a few minutes to learn how cars work.
Yeah for sure...
In shitholes they train people who don't know how to do much more than pick shit out of fields to make IEDs... so yeah I think an educated person could make do.
Why are u being down voted for this?