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Re: Terminal Cornucopia

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Post by chimeracoder » Sat, Nov 16, 2013, 12:49 AM UTC

> All of these findings have been reported to the Department of Homeland Security (TSA) to help them better detect these types of threats.

The threats that the TSA itself admits are non-existent? (http://tsaoutofourpants.wordpress.com/2013/10/17/tsa-admits-...)

The best I can see coming of this is that the TSA will start to ban braided leather belts and condoms.

Re: Terminal Cornucopia

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Post by ktsmith » Sat, Nov 16, 2013, 12:53 AM UTC

jlgreco wrote: post #10

wlian wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Umm. I'm not the only one wondering where the elemental Lithium came from? Right?

I believe some disposable batteries have elemental lithium foil in them (opposed to rechargeable lithium- ion batteries).

How do you take the batteries apart without crushing the foil, shorting them, and causing a fire?

Re: Terminal Cornucopia

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Post by ktsmith » Sat, Nov 16, 2013, 12:53 AM UTC

chimeracoder wrote: post #11

> All of these findings have been reported to the Department of Homeland Security (TSA) to help them better detect these types of threats. The threats that the TSA itself admits are non-existent? ( http://tsaoutofourpants.wordpress.com/2013/10/17/tsa-admits-... ) The best I can see coming of this is that the TSA will start to ban braided leather belts and condoms.

The real villain here is the dental floss.

Re: Terminal Cornucopia

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Post by jlgreco » Sat, Nov 16, 2013, 12:56 AM UTC

ktsmith wrote: post #12

jlgreco wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe some disposable batteries have elemental lithium foil in them (opposed to rechargeable lithium- ion batteries).

How do you take the batteries apart without crushing the foil, shorting them, and causing a fire?

Carefully. ;)

People cooking up shitty meth apparently do it (http://health.utah.gov/meth/html/ToxicologyofMeth/Lithium.ht...) but I don't know how they do it. They might be using tools that wouldn't be available in an airport, but I'm not so sure of that.

Re: Terminal Cornucopia

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Post by Zakharov » Sat, Nov 16, 2013, 12:57 AM UTC

wlian wrote: post #9

signed0 wrote: post #5

The BLUNDERBUSSness Class is by far the best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsem22DkIjw TL;DR: AXE body spray is super combustable!

Umm. I'm not the only one wondering where the elemental Lithium came from? Right?

I think it's the heating element in a thermos; "fraguccino" uses the same technique.

Re: Terminal Cornucopia

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Post by jlgreco » Sat, Nov 16, 2013, 1:04 AM UTC

chimeracoder wrote: post #11

> All of these findings have been reported to the Department of Homeland Security (TSA) to help them better detect these types of threats. The threats that the TSA itself admits are non-existent? ( http://tsaoutofourpants.wordpress.com/2013/10/17/tsa-admits-... ) The best I can see coming of this is that the TSA will start to ban braided leather belts and condoms.

The more ludicrous the TSA gets with its bans, the better. In the long run doing that will only make them look like clowns and make the general public resent them more.

Re: Terminal Cornucopia

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Post by ye » Sat, Nov 16, 2013, 1:07 AM UTC

christiangenco wrote: post #3

Brilliant! Could someone make a short montage of all the weapons firing/being detonated? Slow internet and a lack of weapon descriptions make for quite the frustrating evening.

Yeah, we're gonna stop what we're doing, and make a montage just because you have a slow internet connection.

Re: Terminal Cornucopia

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Post by joshdance » Sat, Nov 16, 2013, 1:08 AM UTC

I don't know how effective any of these techniques would be to a terrorist, however cool and ingeniously constructed the weapons were. The whole security TSA thing is mostly a show anyways.

Re: Terminal Cornucopia

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Post by unfasten » Sat, Nov 16, 2013, 1:09 AM UTC

ktsmith wrote: post #12

jlgreco wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe some disposable batteries have elemental lithium foil in them (opposed to rechargeable lithium- ion batteries).

How do you take the batteries apart without crushing the foil, shorting them, and causing a fire?

He shows this in the Fragguccino video (http://www.youtube.com/embed/TZ5a4ycwsig): by using a small pipe cutter (on a lithium AA battery). He notes that it can be done without the pipe cutter but would take more time.

Re: Terminal Cornucopia

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Post by moron4hire » Sat, Nov 16, 2013, 1:17 AM UTC

I think the key takeaway here is that there are two types of people: those who grew up and eventually became TSA agents, and those who were curious about the world when they were kids and learned all of this stuff.