Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? Date: 10 Dec 2024 00:01:06 GMT Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <9eb45192-e996-fa3d-b002-c02798bb2b7a@example.net> <5e0c7681-481e-b1b2-eec2-321c161c9fd5@example.net> <8Gq5P.102877$7FA3.45532@fx13.iad> <38c0edd2-4d5e-951f-fb7c-350014593e76@example.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net a/1t0lOM3NGmqDg/ytHi2QS+i3+YHVIRRCqHi5iA07fnRSL5j9 Cancel-Lock: sha1:qeSR2cFfkzm+OOfzea44mpu+1zw= sha256:p55OQuUvn5cJDzoSLQWcGbDuuySeOOI+/xQR0eJOzfs= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:62074 On Mon, 9 Dec 2024 21:49:25 +0100, D wrote: > I think making gun powder is very simple. There's loads of youtube > videos, > and I imagine that a couple of pipe bombs would be far easier and more > explosive than car battery bombs. When I was a kid I could walk down the street to the local pharmacy and buy potassium nitrate and flowers of sulfur. The pharmacist probably knew what I was up to but kids were expected to blow things up back then. I could also get iodine crystals for my nitrogen triiodide experiments. It's too unstable to be very useful but it does make a nifty purple cloud when it blows. I only remember one kid getting injured and that was from the low rent activity of stuffing match heads into a CO2 capsule. Darwinian selection at work.