So you seem to be knowledgeable about explosives, atleast more than me. To me the force of the debris thrown would indicate a pretty strong explosion, and yet the middle pillar was still intact. I would imagine if it was a bomb there would be more damage, could be wrong though. Also the lamp pulsing bright at the moment of explosion coupled with the blue/purple hue around the pillar itself. Do explosives make lamps pulse like that, is it the camera just adjusting to light? Do bombs glow blue at the moment of ignition or would it be more red-yellow?
Perhaps youre right. I did see that arial shot but thought that the radius of that blast, if it were a bomb, would have destroyed the middle pillar too. But if youre saying its possible that the explosion could be directed mainly in one direction then you could be right.
Not disagreeing about how a shaped charge works but if if was it was a professional type demolition operation not your tun of the mill "I'm gonna blow that bitch up" guy in a pickup. The camera picked up nobody not even a shadow. It would be really hard to get around that camera and plant a device and a professional op would have 100% disabled the camera first. The "rod of God" weapon would have left a long burn trail from an impact and there would be pieces (very small) of titanium that didn't vaporize from the impact on the stone surface. I think this was absolutely lightening.
Crime scene investigators wouldn't eat to and shouldn't be working where 20 tons of compromised structure could fall on them at any time. It'd be much safer and effective to demolish the other slabs of granite before investigating. Any bomb residue, pieces left over, or other clues would mostly still be intact, and keep the investigators from possibly being killed in the process.
So you seem to be knowledgeable about explosives, atleast more than me. To me the force of the debris thrown would indicate a pretty strong explosion, and yet the middle pillar was still intact. I would imagine if it was a bomb there would be more damage, could be wrong though. Also the lamp pulsing bright at the moment of explosion coupled with the blue/purple hue around the pillar itself. Do explosives make lamps pulse like that, is it the camera just adjusting to light? Do bombs glow blue at the moment of ignition or would it be more red-yellow?
Perhaps youre right. I did see that arial shot but thought that the radius of that blast, if it were a bomb, would have destroyed the middle pillar too. But if youre saying its possible that the explosion could be directed mainly in one direction then you could be right.
Not disagreeing about how a shaped charge works but if if was it was a professional type demolition operation not your tun of the mill "I'm gonna blow that bitch up" guy in a pickup. The camera picked up nobody not even a shadow. It would be really hard to get around that camera and plant a device and a professional op would have 100% disabled the camera first. The "rod of God" weapon would have left a long burn trail from an impact and there would be pieces (very small) of titanium that didn't vaporize from the impact on the stone surface. I think this was absolutely lightening.
Crime scene investigators wouldn't eat to and shouldn't be working where 20 tons of compromised structure could fall on them at any time. It'd be much safer and effective to demolish the other slabs of granite before investigating. Any bomb residue, pieces left over, or other clues would mostly still be intact, and keep the investigators from possibly being killed in the process.
Ahhhh yes, FOX news. Of course they found video of a "suspect" leaving a "device" .
I laughed about at least a dozen times yesterday. Made my day.