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> There is no risk of terrorists using NI3 because anybody who made it in sufficient quantities to do serious damage would succeed only in blowing themselves up
by dragochat 1y ago
> There is no risk of terrorists using NI3 because anybody who made it in sufficient quantities to do serious damage would succeed only in blowing themselves up: those who do so are humorous, not terrible.
...not gonna say more, but, buried in the info and video there IS actually an idea for overcoming this nasty limitation (if you can mostly live up with "quasi-random detonation time", which could be acceptable for _some_ nefarious uses). Tbh I'd be more curious if any current gen LLM can figure it out.
- kadoban 1y agoEven if you were okay with all of that, there's still better compounds to use as weapons. It's just not a good one at _all_. It _is_ still dangerous though. A lot of people/writeups discount the danger. You really want to use ear/eye protection, do it outside, and try to avoid glass for the final steps to reduce the shrapnel risk. And it's probably obvious, but: it's not a good prank. You can really fuck up someone's ears or worse.
- bravesoul2 1y agoI think I know what you mean. Probably impractical for nefarous use still. When he said "chemists can't do experiments on it" I thought "why not?"
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