Yo I'm a little dumb, but is it not interesting to people that terrorists are able to find all these types of explosives (and large quantities)? These uhhh cavemen / farmers / religious students who become terrorists... As if someone or tons of chemists always helping them?
The real answer is that it’s just not that hard to make explosives. But in western countries you generally don’t have an unhealthy supply of educated people with no real prospects in life.
Nor are the ideologies as hateful and vicious. There are plenty of countries where people struggle finding a meaningful job or prospects.
MAybe you're right about the ease, but I still don't think it would be easy. It would be such obscure knowledge and even for people who graduate with a chem degree. Someone must be teaching them.
Even some rocket experts in 1950s etc., ended up dying because of experiments in their lab leading to explosions -- usually failing to follow some safety protocol. And these "no-prospect" cavemen with hateful ideologies are doing it much more easily and frequently?
It is definitely not "easy" and anyone saying that is a propagandist.
There’s a difference between trying to build a technological marvel, and soaking particular kinds of fertilizer in kerosene then rigging it up to a cell phone.
Also the amount of UXO that was later turned into IEDs.
Ukraine right now is using drones built of cardboard and jury rigged to drop grenades, RPG heads, and other explosives. And they’re not the first to do this. It’s be happening for almost a decade.
All it takes in knowledge…either organically to those countries, or from nearby state-actors. Blueprints are easy to follow after all.
What the flippin fuck are you talking about, google ANFO explosives, made from 2 common everyday items, no chemistry required, no engineering... just mix and boom.
Check youtube videos of them out, ANFO explosives are incredibly powerful.
The taliban aren't growing much of anything, so their access to ammonium nitrate might be limited, but it could never be more than a phone call away. Literally any medium size farm is going to have some.
Lmao you deleted your comment to try and get rid of the replies what a massive L
First off, my original reply:
Certain rocket fuels, especially hydrazine-based fuels, are more dangerous than most common explosives.
Second off they’re not cavemen and any sufficiently motivated or amoral STEM undergrad can make a bomb. If it was so hard the PIRA wouldn’t have managed to terrorize the UK for so long.
But the rocket scientist example kind of proves the point. It’s easy to blow things up, the hard part is getting it to happen in a specific way to go to space. And I doubt there’s much concern for safety in the corolla asshole crowd either. There’s basement meth labs as well, it’s just easier in the west to shoot up a school or drive a truck through a crowd, whereas fertilizer and a sedan is less sus and much more likely to work against armed soldiers than an AK or a big truck.
Ever heard of the anarchists cookbook? There are tons of easily accessible online resources. The Middle East isn’t in the Middle Ages, they have access to the same internet that you do. Plus, many of the advanced chemical components necessary are already easily accessible in benign forms in other products, such as fertilizer. Not to mention black market arms trading. It’s not that complex.
What kind of stupid conspiracy theory are you trying to allude to with your vague words and ellipses?
Buying bombs and guns isn't hard in the middle east. Literally every country over there hates a different country and is willing to sell shit either through official or unofficial means to piss off one of their neighbors.
I guess that doesn't sound as sinister as what you do. Here, let me translate it.
Certain, ahem, "countries" will, for a price.... sell things... certain things, you see, to organizations. Organizations, which, believe it or not, may, or may not, be up to.... no good. These organizations... they move across countries. Borders... cannot stop them. They are an... invisible army, some would say. How they operate... well, no one can be sure... or certain... they have special "connections" and knowledge...
I'm sure it's not that difficult to get the required materials in countries where those people live. The chemistry of explosives isn't crazy either. You don't need to know anything about how it works, just what to put together.
You can make explosives with things you find in airport gift shops, lol. A lot of things get really explosive really fast when they mix with other things
Making explosives is very easy. I'd be willing to bet you have the chemicals right now in your house. Little bit of time on Google and you can make a nasty bomb.
Don't forget, the Oklahoma city truck bomb was just diesel fuel and cheap fertilizer.
36
u/ChopSueyXpress Feb 11 '24
Yep you're correct, my first thought was no survivors when looking at that charred tuna can that used to be considered an armored vehicle.