Wooden penguin bomb (demo)
Japan has the coolest toys. I want this thing. It's called a Penguin Bomb and it goes from flattened state to full penguin when you throw it onto a flat surface.
NYPD shows off their Total Containment Vessel that removed the bomb on 27th Street
I got a snap of this weird looking vehicle the night of the Chelsea bombings in NYC. The NYPD's Total Containment Vessel works by slowly releasing pressure from an IED should a bomb detonate while placed in this vessel. Pretty sophisticated stuff. Would love to see it in action.
Why the Chelsea bomb didn’t kill anyone, according to bomb experts - Vox
Photo by Herman Yung
Rahami may have thought he had good reasons for allegedly stuffing the Chelsea bomb inside a large metallic dumpster. It meant the bomb was hidden from police and passersby. It also meant that the dumpster itself could have been torn into pieces of jagged white-hot shrapnel in the ensuing explosion, dramatically increasing the amount of damage to anyone unlucky enough to be standing nearby.That’s not what happened. Instead, the dumpster appears to have contained much of the blast, ensuring that a bomb capable of potentially killing dozens of people ultimately wounded 29 but caused no fatalities.
John Goodpaster, a forensic chemist at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, said that placing a bomb into a container where it is surrounded on all sides except for one — think of a box with its top removed — leads to so-called “focusing.” That, he explained, “means the blast is largely contained and nearly all of the explosive force will be directed out of the opening of the container.”
Since the dumpster was open on the top, he added, “the explosive force was directed upward — which is exactly the opposite of what one wants for maximum casualties.”
That's me being a New Yorker and not caring that a bomb just exploded in my neighborhood
Just a still from the New York Times video below of me standing at the corner of 28th Street and Broadway in my T-shirt and blue shorts and backpack looking like an idiot while bombs were being found in my neighborhood.
Just a still from the New York Times video below of me standing at the corner of 28th Street and Broadway in my T-shirt and blue shorts and backpack looking like an idiot while bombs were being found in my neighborhood.
This is what it looks like to detonate a 10,000 pound explosive underwater
Whoa! Check out this video of a 10,000 pound explosive being detonated underwater. Look at how bright blue the water gets right before the shockwave hits the surface. Incredible!