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[–] [email protected] 78 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

Head of Russia's nuclear, biological, and chemical forces was killed by a bomb hidden in a nearby scooter

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2ek388yxzo

[–] [email protected] 65 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago

I know what I’ve got, no lowballers…or else

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago

Oh hey not bad not bad still clearly a scooter o7

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Considering it was a bomb, it's doing surprisingly well. The handlebars are missing and it's warped in the picture I saw.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

When I read this news this morning I thought it was like a Vespa style scooter. Was it really an electric scooter like this? That makes it even funnier.

Edit- I read the news before the footage was released, and saw this post before the posts with the footage. Lul. Also holy fuck that was a big explosion from such a tiny boi.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (2 children)

> that was a big explosion from such a tiny boi.

Remember, the nuclear material which was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was about the size of a cricket ball.

The explosion could have been a little bigger!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

Hiroshima's bomb was Little Boy, which contained 64 kg of uranium, which at 19.1 g/cm^3 would be about 3.3 liters, significantly larger than a cricket ball.

But Nagasaki's Fat Man used about 6.2 kg of plutonium, which has roughly the same density as uranium, although the implosion mechanism to initiate the chain reaction compressed it to about half the volume. So that's closer to a cricket ball.

But also to add even more nuance, the plutonium in Fat Man used a uranium tamper to reflect neutrons, and estimates are that about 30% of the explosion yield was due to fission of the uranium too. So it's hard to really draw the line on what was or wasn't the "explosive" in that bomb.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There was a bit more to the bomb than just nuclear material though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

And none of it came out charred but recognizable.

If the pictured scooter genuinely was the bomb, this is some Wile E. Coyote shit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If you take the batteries out, there's a decent amount of space inside one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Username checks out

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Impressive improvisation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Oh sweet, thanks