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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
There are plenty of very safe HEs.

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- chaogomu@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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