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From: john larkin <jl@650pot.com>
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Subject: Re: Exploding pagers
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 11:09:00 -0700
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On Fri, 20 Sep 2024 17:05:24 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
<cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:

>On Fri, 20 Sep 2024 12:36:57 +0200, Robert Roland wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 17 Sep 2024 13:18:26 -0500, Crash Gordon <uucp@crashelex.com>
>> 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.