[TML] Ingenious Chemistry, was Re: NY Reload

[Azalais Aranxta]

On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Knapp wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 6:17 PM, Azalais Aranxta <tiamat at tsoft.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Timothy Little wrote:
> >
> >  > On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 05:28:04AM -0500, Jerry W Barrington wrote:
> >  > > ps., I understand the Anarchist Cookbook and similar items tend to
> >  > > tell the truth.  With copious warnings never to do the things they
> >  > > describe.  :)
> >  >
> >  > According to a chemist friend of mine (as of about a decade ago), the
> >  > Anarchist's Cookbook has just enough truth in it to let you kill
> >  > yourself.  E.g. explosives recipes that are technically "correct" in
> >  > the sense that they could result in what they purport to make, but not
> >  > by any method that a sane person who knew what they were doing would
> >  > use.
> >
> >  I knew the son of the man who wrote it well, though I haven't
> >  seen him in years, and he says they work.
>
> It does not really matter if they work, what matters is you know what
> you are doing before you try it.  Many explosives are not only
> explosive but poisonous too. Also making something blow up is easy but
> burning it is even easier and mostly safer.

Oh, I'm not disputing that (though I will point out, since I've
got a NERT certification and know rather a lot about fires) that
burning things up is poisonous as hell too.  Most of the interior
of modern buildings is kinda toxic if burnt.

~malfoy :)

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