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- xtmno3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+71"If these tips don't work, give us a call and let us know what we got wrong."
Reminds me of the old shirt that says 'I'm a bomb technician, if you see me running, try to keep up.' - clayh, on 10/12/2007, -2/+54Feh. I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb.
- Langford, on 10/12/2007, -5/+39I could have used this last week. Somebody left a bomb, and the darn thing went off and killed me.
Killed? ...Well, I got better. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+37Thanks Capt. Obvious.
- technique, on 10/12/2007, -0/+30@xtmno3
Or the scuba dive instructor that says "Remember, you never have to outswim a shark -- just your dive buddy" - ArmandoM, on 10/12/2007, -5/+30Please, please, PLEASE don't let the phrase "how Jack Bauer it'd be" enter the language.
- Flash0, on 10/12/2007, -4/+27Somebody set up us the bomb...
- happyfappy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21If you were Jack Bauer, you wouldn't need to know how to dismantle an atomic bomb -- just grab the guy nearest you and torture him (preferably with a make-shift electrocution device) until he tells you.
Unfortunately, this method would only work if there's time to ask the question three times... - bob301, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19I had that happen to me, only I got turned into a newt.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Time? WE HAVE NO TIME!
- Lane5slacker, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21You know, if the opportunity ever came up...
- m4v1s, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15If everyone on 24 did what Jack Bauer said, the show would be called 12
- Simen, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17"Love and Peace or Else"?
- badave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14"Remove the neutron trigger. Don't eat it."
- Eccohawk, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17Jack Bauer once forgot where he put his keys. He then spent the next half-hour torturing himself until he gave up the location of the keys.*
*courtesy Jack Bauer facts.
http://www.notrly.com/jackbauer/index.php?topthirty - zonk3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Last step is to wipe the sweat from your brow and turn off the cool music that is likely to be playing ethereally in the background..
- D4r7h3v1l, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13Ilyag, I find it ironic that you took that from Family guy.
- chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -1/+111) find atomic bomb
2) go get bono
3) ?????
4) profit - InsaneMachine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10At least its actually decently relevant to the article.
- brad06, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10You have no chance to survive make your time.
- gwolf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8You First
- brad06, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Jack Bauer doesn't need to know how per se, as Chloe will just hack the pentagon and upload the schematics of the bomb via satellite to Bauer's PDA.
- labmonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Bomb expert on radio: Cut the blue wire. Do not, I repeat, do not cut the green wire.
Cop who is 1 week away from retirement: They're both green! Threre's only 10 seconds left. I’m going to cut one. HOLD ON!
*snip* - SirFoxx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Step 1: Disconnect the red wire
Step 2: After you disconnect the green wire
oops! - ronin9, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Threaten to cut off the nuts of the bastard that put it together if he doesn't take it apart.
- hansonc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6you don't need a spherical shock wave for a uranium bomb. The original nuclear bomb, "little boy", was a gun style bomb meaning there were 2 pieces of uranium, one slightly less massive than critical and the second was fired like a bullet into the first causing the chain reaction and the boom.
Ok so I didn't actually bother to read what type of bomb Wired was talking about but not all need the spherical shock wave. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Ilyag: you are an idiot. He took that (albeit overused joke) and put it, for the first time that I have ever seen, in a correct context. Props to the OP.
- dbalaski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6DYI -- Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
1) If you find one: DON"T TOUCH IT
2) Call someone else to do the dirty work:
...... a) A profressional -- if you care about the area
...... b) someone you hate -- if they don't suceed, well - you can guess the rest
3) Leave area as fast you can
- calcnerd256, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@ArmandoM
but if it did, it'd be so jack bauer! - Qeveren, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Polonium is atomic # 84 on the periodic table. A radioactive telluride metal. Well, okay, metalloid.
- enivid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5You forgot that Chloe will help Jack in the most socially awkward way.
OPEN A SOCKET!!!! - u8myfoood, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5all this time i though hitting it with a hammer would work...
- DonPMitchell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Wired: spell checking
Tired: fact checking
Wired seems to be a junk science magazine, full of editorializing and postmodernism and ugly typography, but very short on real knowledge or insight. - Qeveren, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5That's correct. However, atomic bombs rely on a very precise alignment of their components to operate, which is one of the reasons that they're so bloody difficult to construct in the first place. The conventional explosives that trigger them have to create nearly-perfectly spherical shock waves in order to compress the nuclear material in a useful way.
Using a shaped charge (or a rocket, or even a high-caliber projectile) to disrupt it will prevent the device from reaching critical density. Instead of a nuke, you get a somewhat dirty conventional bomb instead. It's a mess, but not a large one compared to the alternative. :) - AdamWeeden, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I'd venture to say that's MORE dangerous. An atomic bomb works by using a small conventional explosion to force together radioactive material (which makes a BIG explosion).
- tidu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5boom.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You never know when you'll be straddling a nuclear bomb, like Dr. Strange Love, thats falling from the sky. This is definitley useful.
- technique, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9So many answers to such a simple question...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Chloe is the biggest badass in that whole show.
- puter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Just to clear some things up
I don't believe this is accurate, very rarily do you attempt to cut or disconnect any wires in a bomb, generaly you remove the detonation caps to avoide that whole annoying booby trap thing
so, in short what you would generaly do if you were to actualy dissassemble the bomb would be to remove the detonator caps from the explosive that initiates the chain reaction. I would not recomend doing the rest of the steps which would involve handling radiation, instead simply get the entire package away from the detonation caps in the safest way possible. - cudgel13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3*nerdy phd voice* The compact nukes of the convenient size that would normally be used by a terrorist would almost surely be the spherical initiator type. In this case, whacking the piss out of the spherical charge will assuredly disrupt the initiator shockwaves. Hence you'd only be killed by the high explosives going off, not a nuclear detonation.
- DaneTrain, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Anyone read that and wonder what the hell "polonium" is?
- wkdown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Maybe this is a sign of things to come for the third season of Lost?
- Tarantulus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@Danetrain: seen the periodic table recently?
- Lane5slacker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Thanks for ruining a perfectly good inside joke!
- Qeveren, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Also true. Gun-type bombs are much less technically complex, but they're also much larger and less efficient. And this method of 'disarming' would still work on them, as long as you place the charge in such a way that the damage it causes prevents the two fissile masses from colliding.
- dbalaski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2in Dr.Strangelove
Wasnt it Slim Pickens on the bomb, and he was trying to make it drop and go off
Gotta digg your comment just for the Dr.Strangelove reference
Trivia : Dr.Strangelove was James Earl Jones first Film appearance - gwolf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You are correct sir.
- izmeh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3McGuyver > Atomic Bomb
- jgullickson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1duh,
Pull the trigger! -
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