Comment on Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer — DIY MANPADS includes Wi-Fi guidance, ballistics calculations, optional camera for tracking

• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Atomize* some propelant, boom, explosive.

  The trick is to get the atomized propelant to “boom, explosive” at the target and not in your backpack.

  Also, you probably want a “boom” sufficient to accomplish whatever demolition you’re planning, which - again - raises the stakes regarding what’s in your backpack.

  There’s a classic little film called “The Wages of Fear” that explores the hazards of amateurs transporting high explosives over long distances.

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  • eleitl@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There are plenty of very safe HEs.

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    • chaogomu@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Tannerite comes to mind. It explodes from a high impact, and little else. I’m not sure what sort of yield you’d get. That stuff mostly just makes a pop and smoke.

      I have heard of people using it on stubborn tree stumps, but that’s several pounds of the stuff.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I mean, spray the leftover fuel into the oxygen-filled head only on target? It wouldn’t stay atomized for long anyway.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wouldn’t that work?

      Idk, you wanna find out?

      Listen, if you’ve got the specs for military ordinance and want to say “We’ve done this a thousand times, it works fine” that’s one thing.

      But it’s very much another to just wave your hands and announce “you know, the boom-boom juice goes here and the detonator goes there and it’ll probably be fine”… It’ll probably do something.

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• frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Does that literally mean “make dust”? I think “powderize” might be a better translation in this context, if it’s a solid, or “aerosolize” if it’s a liquid. I’ve never been a big fan of the word “atomize” in any case.

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  • FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve never been a big fan of the word “atomize” in any case.

    Mate, I’ll have you know some of my relatives are made of atoms

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• chaogomu@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Atomize, from the original Ancient Greek adjective atomos, meaning “uncuttable” or “indivisible”.

  Seems pretty apt to me. You have rendered it into its smallest constituent pieces through physical means, any further reduction requires chemical processes, or high energy physics. Coincidentally, a simple spark provides both.

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