• Drusas
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    249 hours ago

    World War II ordinances didn’t rely on batteries and so remain(ed) dangerous for far longer.

    • @cogman
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      28 hours ago

      These are still explosive. While the triggering mechanism may go bad after the battery dies, are the explosive chemicals neutralized? What happens on a shock to the device? For example, if it’s crushed by a vehicle or hit by a plow blade?

      I can grant that these are probably safer than yesteryear’s model, but I also think you are still setting up bobbytraps that are potentially dangerous for decades.

      • @[email protected]
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        105 hours ago

        Most explosives are chemically and physically stable like c4. Driving over them isn’t going to set them off, nor is hitting them with any kind of blunt force.

        • BombOmOm
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          34 hours ago

          Hell, you can even burn C4 and it does not explode.