Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: john larkin Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Exploding pagers Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 11:09:00 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 20:08:20 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="296e04cdbfaee2bcb9e2eb746490400a"; logging-data="1276068"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18VT4nBBviJmO5hNy1m0iBZ" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:7zSsXIeS0oCGxeWjw/dArK78cNM= Bytes: 2605 On Fri, 20 Sep 2024 17:05:24 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom wrote: >On Fri, 20 Sep 2024 12:36:57 +0200, Robert Roland wrote: > >> On Tue, 17 Sep 2024 13:18:26 -0500, Crash Gordon >> wrote: >> >>>Pagers, even with a cheap LiPo battery that fails, do not explode. >>>Somebody built hundreds, maybe thousands, of intentionally booby-trapped >>>pagers and then managed to distribute them to a large group of targeted >>>individuals. >> >> It is interesting how, shortly after the incident, the meadia was full >> of statements from "experts" claiming that the most likely source of the >> explosions were the batteries. >> >> These experts would explain that, if shorted, a lithium battery can >> explode. They made no attempt at explaining, or even speculating, how >> this short would have implemented. Nor did they explain the such an >> explosion is extremely unlikely, since battery manufacturers go out of >> their way to make their products as safe as possible. >> >> There were videos of one or two explosions published. The videos clearly >> show explosions that are nothing like a battery explosion. The >> explosions are hard and sharp, consistent with a high-velocity >> explosive. >> >> More interestingly, no journalist posed any question whatsoever. They >> are not interested in the truth. They are only interested in a story. > >The bovine masses simply accept what they're told for the most part. They >seem incapable of critical thinking. Different people have diferent talents. Maybe your nurse or your wife is a bovine mass.