Conder pipe bomb

bundah said :

So detonation is supersonic while deflagration is subsonic and using the term discharged in relation to a pipe bomb is just a general term indicating that something has ‘gone off ‘or ‘relieved of its contents’.

Not quite – “using the term discharged” is just the AFP keeping to its usual low standards of literacy.

Baggy said :

LSWCHP said :

The cretins who do this sort of thing put the lives of others at risk for their entertainment, and I wish them all a premature discharge, with attendant consequences.

It’s a crying shame that the fathers of these cretins didn’t experience that very same problem.

It would have done the human race a bit of a favour.

Or maybe if their mothers had closed their legs?

LSWCHP said :

The cretins who do this sort of thing put the lives of others at risk for their entertainment, and I wish them all a premature discharge, with attendant consequences.

It’s a crying shame that the fathers of these cretins didn’t experience that very same problem.

It would have done the human race a bit of a favour.

LSWCHP said :

The cretins who do this sort of thing put the lives of others at risk for their entertainment, and I wish them all a premature discharge, with attendant consequences.

It’s a crying shame their fathers didn’t experience that very same problem.

bundah said :

So detonation is supersonic while deflagration is subsonic and using the term discharged in relation to a pipe bomb is just a general term indicating that something has ‘gone off ‘or ‘relieved of its contents’.

Very good. You may go to the top of the class.

I’ve lost count of the number of really substantial explosions I’ve heard in Canberra over the years, and my calls to the cops has never resulted in any action that I’ve heard of.

The cretins who do this sort of thing put the lives of others at risk for their entertainment, and I wish them all a premature discharge, with attendant consequences.

So detonation is supersonic while deflagration is subsonic and using the term discharged in relation to a pipe bomb is just a general term indicating that something has ‘gone off ‘or ‘relieved of its contents’.

LSWCHP said :

Robertson said :

“ACT Policing is responding to a report that a suspected pipe bomb discharged on a nature-strip “

A pipe bomb *detonates*. A firearm discharges.

English. Not rocket science.

Well look, explosions are my forte, so if we’re gonna be pedants here

A “detonation” typically refers to a high supersonic exothermic reaction that ultimately drives a supersonic shock wave in front of it. This is the effect you see from high explosive or nuclear devices for example.

Pipe bombs containing home brew low explosives typically burn very fast, make a flash, go bang and produce some smoke in a process known as deflagration, but I’d be astounded if one of them actually detonated in the technically correct sense of the term.

Having said all that, it would be hard to tell the difference between an HE device detonating and an IED deflagrating if either one went off in your vicinity.

Having had one of these things disintegrate my brick letterbox, I can confirm that the pipe bombs of Tuggeranong do indeed detonate.

c_c™ said :

Robertson said :

“ACT Policing is responding to a report that a suspected pipe bomb discharged on a nature-strip “

A pipe bomb *detonates*. A firearm discharges.

English. Not rocket science.

According to Roget’s Thesaurus, ‘discharge’ is a synonym for ‘detonate’.

So, on that basis, one could have an unpleasant detonation in one’s underwear … Yes, I can see that I suppose.

Robertson said :

“ACT Policing is responding to a report that a suspected pipe bomb discharged on a nature-strip “

A pipe bomb *detonates*. A firearm discharges.

English. Not rocket science.

Well look, explosions are my forte, so if we’re gonna be pedants here

A “detonation” typically refers to a high supersonic exothermic reaction that ultimately drives a supersonic shock wave in front of it. This is the effect you see from high explosive or nuclear devices for example.

Pipe bombs containing home brew low explosives typically burn very fast, make a flash, go bang and produce some smoke in a process known as deflagration, but I’d be astounded if one of them actually detonated in the technically correct sense of the term.

Having said all that, it would be hard to tell the difference between an HE device detonating and an IED deflagrating if either one went off in your vicinity.

Primal said :

I am now convinced that people commit crimes in Conder just to make the ACTP Media Unit look bad.

Not to mention trying to out run cop cars in a Ford Festiva to make cops look bad… and then blow .189… Hilarious.