Reply #48: Sorry man, but I gotta ask. Do you know what a bomb looks like? [View All]

I do. Anyone with a mediocre background in chemistry, electronics, and a search engine can know what one looks like, and every component of it. Lets go down the line:

1. The majority of homemade bombs do not use circuit boards (They're more difficult to work with, and completely superfluous in a suicide bombing. Two pieces of 16 ga wire, a switch and 4 AA batteries is more than enough to get the job done). Those that do are generally for timed explosions, and are more sophisticated, usually done by pyrotechnic/demolition engineers (it CAN happen. Unlikely though. My next point will address this).

2. If a circuit board is already wired to light up, it is EXTREMELY unlikely that one could design a decent timed explosive device around that without it being a large, not to mention that it would require an ungodly amount of work for 0 profit. Making it a simple switch-ignition type mechanism would make a circuit board simply a pain in the ass to work with, and just fuck up a perfectly simple and beautiful design.

3. Looking at the board and jacket, there is nothing there even RESEMBLING a charge. If there was, the amount concealed by the board would be so miniscule, at most it would put a hole in her stomach and give her some third-degree burns. Hell, even SHE probably would have lived. However, lets assume that maybe she has a charge underneath her jacket, and somehow she DID manage to rig the circuit board with a few capacitors and some chips, and then cut a hole into her jacket behind the board. Could it be big enough to do some damage? Yes. Not a terrible amount, but enough to terrify some people, and possibly kill or injure people within about a 5 meter radius (assuming she wasn't covered with it, and didn't have, say, a couple kilos of ball bearings). However, many airports have bomb detectors (In theory they are supposed to detect nitrogen based explosives. I admit I am relatively ignorant on the subject, so can not make a completely informed decision), and 90+% would have gone off. Most of those that wouldn't are incredibly and notoriously unstable and dangerous to work with. There was a good chance that in this case, a ignition system wouldn't be needed to set it off, even with a simple system, let alone a timed one.

4. Unless a terrorist was TRYING to get caught and cause panic, it would be pointless to put your detonation system outside, when if you're charge is hidden inside (Where it would have to be, if there was any charge at all), you could have just as easily put it there, and actually completed whatever stupid mission you had without half the chance of being caught.

So, in conclusion: The board would have been pointless and detrimental to a suicide-type bombing. It would have been difficult to design. Any charge that would be unnoticable would have been the equivalent of a few aerial firework shells, if that. It would have called unwanted attention to any self-respecting terrorist, and been detrimental to his cause and mission. The guard failed miserably, and should be removed from his post immediately, as should any guards that we don't have enough common sense to actually train.

Should they have asked to search her? Meh. They could have. It probably would have been pointless, but I guess it can't hurt. At the very least, it will make all of the dumbasses out there feel a little safer.

The only crime this girl committed was to forget the complete and utter ignorance and douchebaggery of our nation. I applaud her. I hope to whatever God there may be that she made everyone of those stupid people shit themselves.

So while I generally agree with you and find you acceptable, I'm afraid that I must come to a closing point that really is not becoming of either of us. Such a position, to interject my juvenille language, fails. And now I take my leave. Good day, sir.