[TML] Ingenious Chemistry, was Re: NY Reload

[Richard Aiken]

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Bruce Johnson
<johnson at pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:
> Even mercury fulminate could produce a small explosion suitable for a
> flash-bang effect, and could have been put to such use in the show.
>
> The problem is an explosion that 'blows out the windows and air
> conditioner, sets of car alarms and knocks down people on the streets
> outside' is NOT a 'small explosion'.

Well, it's not like the air-conditioner went flying.  It ended up
dangling on the outer wall from it's power cord.  And maybe the
"knocks down people" was a misinterpretation of my part.  Now that I
think about it, we only see people getting up, not being knocked down.
 So they may have heard the blast and dived for cover, then got back
up when nothing else happened.  I'll admit the "sets off car alarms"
is a bit of a stretch, though.  But then, given the neighborhood, they
might well have been set to "ultra-sensitive!"

-- 
Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident."  Robert A. Heinlein