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Tweeting Armageddon

By Andrew David Thaler, on January 12th, 2010

Ok, it wasn’t really armageddon, but the twitter feed from today’s port incident was priceless.

It began with a few tweets by @SFriedScientist

SFriedScientist – Morehead Port is closed due to nine containers being punctured; inside are highly explosive materials know as PETN.

SFriedScientist - Why in the hell are there nine containers of pentaerythritol tetranitrate sitting in my port?

SFriedScientist - and for that matter how the hell did they get left in a position for nine of them to be punctured?

SFriedScientist – Pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN) is one of the most powerful high explosives known, with a relative effectiveness factor of 1.66.

SFriedScientist - The XTX8003 extrudable explosive, used in the W68 and W76 nuclear warheads, is a mixture of 80% PETN and 20% of Sylgard 182

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January 12th, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: Blogging | 10 comments - (Comments are closed)