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I can make a truck bomb from commercial fertilizers, or I can grow a whole bunch of wheat and corn. Just because you can fuck things up with a particular techno

I can make a truck bomb from commercial fertilizers, or I can grow a whole bunch of wheat and corn. Just because you can fuck things up with a particular technology isn't a great reason for disallowing the positive usages of it.

paganel 8y ago
It’s pretty hard to blow up the entire world with commercial fertilizers while we can literally make the whole world un-habitable right now with “the help” of the existing nuclear arsenal. Scale matters.
AlexCoventry 8y ago
In terms of pound-per-equivalent-pounds-of-TNT, the most powerful nuclear weapon is 7 million times more powerful than ANFO. That's a lot of fertilizer! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT_equivalent#RE_factor_examples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT_equivalent#RE_factor_examp... See the ANFO and the "B41 nuclear bomb" entries in the tables linked there.
pjc50 8y ago
> I can make a truck bomb from commercial fertilizers .. which is why in many countries they're either a semi-controlled substance, or deliberately adulterated with substances to fizzle the explosion. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6548961.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6548961.stm