technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoLebanon’s health minister says 8 killed, 2,750 wounded by exploding pagerswww.aljazeera.comexternal-linkmessage-square198fedilinkarrow-up1459arrow-down114
arrow-up1445arrow-down1external-linkLebanon’s health minister says 8 killed, 2,750 wounded by exploding pagerswww.aljazeera.comtechnocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square198fedilink
minus-squaredhork@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up65·edit-28 months agoNYT has a link up which it claims has been verified. It is a video of someone at a market who had one of these in their messenger bag. The video shows a decent size explosion, which blew a big hole in the bag and knocked the guy to the ground. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/09/17/world/israel-hamas-war-news/44771255-fd1d-5028-8228-aff0ca5b8139 I doubt you could make an explosion that big with a AA battery. They must have planted the stuff in some massive supply chain hack.
minus-squarealvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up49·8 months agoYep, all the electrical engineers who have chimed in say it looks more like explosives. A battery would get hot and start a fire. It wouldn’t instantly explode like this.
NYT has a link up which it claims has been verified. It is a video of someone at a market who had one of these in their messenger bag. The video shows a decent size explosion, which blew a big hole in the bag and knocked the guy to the ground.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/09/17/world/israel-hamas-war-news/44771255-fd1d-5028-8228-aff0ca5b8139
I doubt you could make an explosion that big with a AA battery. They must have planted the stuff in some massive supply chain hack.
Yep, all the electrical engineers who have chimed in say it looks more like explosives.
A battery would get hot and start a fire. It wouldn’t instantly explode like this.