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From: Clive Arthur <clive@nowaytoday.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Exploding pagers
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2024 20:51:47 +0100
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On 21/09/2024 19:24, Cursitor Doom wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Sep 2024 10:21:11 +0100, Clive Arthur
> <clive@nowaytoday.co.uk> wrote:

<snip>

>> I know little of explosives, but were I asked to make something
>> suitable, I'd drill a hole in some high-explosive, fill it with
>> gunpowder, embed a filament in the gunpowder and encase the whole thing
>> in steel.
>>
>> Would that work?
> 
> Nope. Gunpowder is insufficiently brisant for this purpose. Nowhere
> near in fact.
> 

So what would happen?

-- 
Cheers
Clive