AUSTRALIAN TERROR SUSPECTS recently arrested
It's been all over the tv news, a few days ago some 19 suspects were arrested in Melbourne and Sydney. One suspect was shot and injured during his capture, curiously he had worked as an actor and played a minor role in a tv police-crime drama series years before.
It is reported that they "had enough chemicals stockpiled to possibly make 15 bombs" (note the extreme vagueness, NO mention of what the chemicals were or the actual quantity)
Mmmm, let's see, so compared to say one gallon of petrol (gasoline) being plenty enough for a decent sized bomb, when put all together, these 19 people had the equivalent of one large family car (a good ol' Aussie Falcon or Commodore) with a single tank full of petrol.
Or perhaps every one of the 19 of them, had a car, but they all had even less than one gallon of petrol left in each car, maybe ?
I once heard that "one gallon of petrol, under *Optimum* conditions, has the explosive power of 22 sticks of Dynamite". Now that seems a bit much to me, although note that it does have to be "optimum" conditions to get that result. But even if it's only 10% accurate, then it'd mean that every gallon of petrol would still equate to 2 sticks of dynamite. I dunno if "dynamite" means the old fashioned type which cowboys used 100+ years ago as depicted in old movies, or if it means the more modern "Gelignite" sticks.
Anyway, in the fullness of time, when these latest suspects get their day in court, it'll be interesting to note if they had anything more than a tank-full of petrol in their possession eh !
It is reported that they "had enough chemicals stockpiled to possibly make 15 bombs" (note the extreme vagueness, NO mention of what the chemicals were or the actual quantity)
Mmmm, let's see, so compared to say one gallon of petrol (gasoline) being plenty enough for a decent sized bomb, when put all together, these 19 people had the equivalent of one large family car (a good ol' Aussie Falcon or Commodore) with a single tank full of petrol.
Or perhaps every one of the 19 of them, had a car, but they all had even less than one gallon of petrol left in each car, maybe ?
I once heard that "one gallon of petrol, under *Optimum* conditions, has the explosive power of 22 sticks of Dynamite". Now that seems a bit much to me, although note that it does have to be "optimum" conditions to get that result. But even if it's only 10% accurate, then it'd mean that every gallon of petrol would still equate to 2 sticks of dynamite. I dunno if "dynamite" means the old fashioned type which cowboys used 100+ years ago as depicted in old movies, or if it means the more modern "Gelignite" sticks.
Anyway, in the fullness of time, when these latest suspects get their day in court, it'll be interesting to note if they had anything more than a tank-full of petrol in their possession eh !
posted by Catherine Jemma at 10:50 am
1 Comments:
Dynamite is the american form of gelignite. Aluminum vs aluminium.
Joshua
And I agree about the vagueness. I have 2 kilo's of chlorine at my place. Easy to make a bomb out of that. Does that make me a terrorist?
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