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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

And i thought my ping was bad.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Here I thought they would rust out (or the powder would get wet) and wouldn't work after all this time.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nope, they just become less predictable. Which is why in some parts of Germany you can't build as much as a garden shed without having EOD check the land first. In the more heavily-bombed areas it's not unusual to hear on the radio that you're to avoid downtown today between 10 and 12 because they're disarming a 500-pound bomb they found during roadwork.

And yes, the fact that an unstable bomb capable of trashing a city block is mundane nicely illustrates war's potential to fuck things up for generations.

Japan might want to get that land under and around the airport checked. There might be some other surprises hidden down there.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Hunting with a Metal detector sounds like it would be really fun over there.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Worse, the chemicals inside deteriorate to somewhere between "this detonator is completely trash" and "surprise fireworks".

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

Schrödinger's bomb

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Brings back memories of that one Lost episode with the unstable dynamite.

Also an episode of Grey's Anatomy.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

They don't make 'em like they used to

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I'd guess that's probably true for most of them, this one is probably an outlier

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

If the guys that made Internet Explorer also made bombs...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Japan now has the grounds to restart WW2