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These Marines will use breaching and infiltration techniques when the infantry is on the offensive and employ demolition and other countermeasures when in a defensive position.
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#28201343 - 02/23/23 07:42 PM (10 months, 28 days ago) |
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ballsalsa said: Make your vessel from cast iron then. And those things were flash powder, not black powder. I think the detonation velocity is pretty significant(ly faster than black powder) for whatever that's worth.
Well then we should add "casting iron" to the list of required skills.
Flash powder is funky, in that the detonation velocity of flash powder depends on the container, the particle size distribution, the mixing of particles, the packing density, heck even the crushing potential of the materials themselves...lots of stuff to consider. Powder explosives are generally messy for this reason, and this is why I refer to black powder as maybe an explosive...only properly made black powder under ideal conditions actually explodes, usually it just burns.
Further, we are looking at different purposes. Black powder, or modern equivalents like cordite/gunpowder are designed to produce a significant overpressure wave that builds relatively gradually, because the point is to push a projectile out of a barrel. Picrates, which led to the development of TNT and eventually RDX/HMX, which is C4, creates a much smaller overpressure wave which appears much more rapidly, specifically to maximize the impulse of the explosion and promote fragmentation. Flash powder is designed to create a minimal overpressure wave, and release as much energy as possible in the form of light.
A lot of this stuff is fairly simple (though I am oversimplifying), but a lot of it is not very intuitive. If it was obvious, we'd have a lot more bombings, and probably fewer shootings.
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Re: Trump (moved) [Re: Kryptos]
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Why couldn't you just buy some cast iron? I'm sure someone could cap off an 1.5" fitting easily enough without special tools or training
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Boston Bomber made buying stuff that looks like an explosive shell along with the other materials a bit more complicated. Much like buying a cart full of matches, road flares, and ether will get you a knock from the DEA.
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Re: Trump (moved) [Re: Kryptos]
#28201459 - 02/23/23 08:36 PM (10 months, 28 days ago) |
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I've purchased many cast iron fittings over the years without any trouble. Aside from the trouble inherent to working with cast iron, that is
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I was the guy who humpped full gear with two satchel charges. Each one was about 24lbs of C4. I was the last one on a staggered column. Depended on cover fire for breaching and making mouse holes. Its not the most transferable skill in the civilian world, but alas.
Most explosives are a solid that turns into a gas, and the energy released thereof. TNT at detonation is more of a "poof!". C4 is more of a "crack!"
I will say demolition is fun, but after three or four hours on a range it can get tedious....thats when it's really dangerous..... besides a hot zone, disarming mines was the most scary AF moments for me. Had to disarm Bouncing Betties with EOD before in an active mine zone in the Persian Gulf. The three prongs that stick out of the sand that take roughly 7lbs of pressure to go off. Sergeant thought it would be fun to eat our rations in the active mine field, fuck that guy.
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Re: Trump (moved) [Re: Kryptos]
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Kryptos said: Boston Bomber made buying stuff that looks like an explosive shell along with the other materials a bit more complicated. Much like buying a cart full of matches, road flares, and ether will get you a knock from the DEA.
We all have a pressure cooker for our cultivation hobby, so....
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Most explosives are a solid that turns into a gas
Not solid>liquid>gas but solid>gas? ie. sublimation.
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Trump is such a sociopath. It’s so blatantly obvious the only thing he cares about is attention, and the sheep still flock. Nuts
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Re: Trump (moved) [Re: koods]
#28201602 - 02/23/23 09:55 PM (10 months, 27 days ago) |
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It’s just fucking hilarious that trump distributed water that has been individually stored inside plastic bottles for 13 years. To a town worried about its water quality.
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Re: Trump (moved) [Re: koods]
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CHeifM4sterDiezL said: Why does half the homeless population in the country live in California where folks are now facing an extreme threat to public peace and safety because of it?
Because California is where people who are down on their luck go. This is a staple of American culture. Jack Kerouac. Grapes of Wrath. Hollywood. Blah blah.
Yeah, when I was at the University of Illinois I got in a conversation with "sleeping bag bum" as we called him, when I wouldn't give him money. I felt kind of bad when he told me he was a Vietnam vet, but I was supporting myself washing dishes. He said that the homeless people at the U of I tended to stay there in the warmer months, because there were liberal college students, then went to Florida in the winter.
There is no easy answer to homelessness, but IMO the two biggest issues are mental health, which Reagan dismantled, and affordable housing, which they don't build because it's not profitable use of real-estate. We need affordable housing for the working poor, and super-affordable housing for the people not making it at all in our system. But people with money, don't like affordable housing near them.
I can see both sides of the issue, as I sometimes get irritated at the panhandlers with their signs at busy intersections, and think they are probably making more money than I do killing my body at an Amazon warehouse at age 65. Other times I'm in a better mood and give them a couple bucks.
We obviously need to address the issue better than we have, and even semi-unsuccessful programs are a start, and better than doing nothing.
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Re: Trump (moved) [Re: koods]
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koods said: Trump is such a sociopath. It’s so blatantly obvious the only thing he cares about is attention, and the sheep still flock. Nuts

Even Republicans and Fox News are seeing the light.
But he has the currently legal right to solicit funds for voter fraud or the next election, and is using all the money to pay his legal bills.
It's becoming increasingly clearer that effective avenue to fighting extremism (Trump, guns, whatever) in these capitalist United States is through lawsuits. Since I'm a pragmatist and not an idealist, OK whatever works.
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Speaking of lawsuits, a judge has ordered Trump to testify in a lawsuit brought by the two fbi agents the DOJ outed as having an affair, and leaking their texts. Lots of reasons to believe that they were targeted for harassment because they were anti trump.
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Re: Trump (moved) [Re: Kryptos]
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CHeifM4sterDiezL said: It's delusional to think machine guns or hand grenades or rockets aren't easy to manufacture 
Yeah, okay, I am no longer speaking rhetorically when I say I think you might be crazy. You clearly have no idea what is happening.
Does this guy think that every American has a chess to metalergy, machining, and volatile chemical production equipment?
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Re: Trump (moved) [Re: koods]
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I also read that the evidence in voting machine company vs Fox, Giuliani, et al, is so one sided that the judge may go with a summary judgement and forgo the trial. Apparently, the plaintiff's case is already proven by statements on record by Carlson, Hannity, and Fox executives. They were so worried about getting outflanked on the right and losing market shares to Newsmax and OANN that they threw caution to the wind.
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The automatic weapons ban is one of the most successful gun control laws in American history
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Brian Jones said: I also read that the evidence in voting machine company vs Fox, Giuliani, et al, is so one sided that the judge may go with a summary judgement and forgo the trial. Apparently, the plaintiff's case is already proven by statements on record by Carlson, Hannity, and Fox executives. They were so worried about getting outflanked on the right and losing market shares to Newsmax and OANN that they threw caution to the wind.
I’d really like to see this go to trial and have these cretins testify
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Re: Trump (moved) [Re: koods]
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koods said: The automatic weapons ban is one of the most successful gun control laws in American history
I remember several good crime movies going back to the 60's and 70's that referenced the Massachusetts law that getting caught with a machine gun was an automatic life sentence.
A federal judge recently decided not to block Illinois' assault weapon magazine ban.
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Think that the SC may overturn that....I remember IL ban on handguns that got tossed. Now this is a magazine, so there may be a chance but practically, it takes no longer then 10 seconds to change out that clip. I don't see this doing anything other then making a shooter expend his ammo on more well placed shots.
Although I do advocate for gun rights ... I don't own any myself anymore... With the exception of my grandpas shotgun. I understand trying to solve a problem with a law but there seems to be a sickness that you can't legislate away, but I understand the attempt.
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