If you ever have to diffuse a bomb...
What color of wire do you cut? Guess and then consult the hidden text below.
Red you're dead
Blue you're through
Yellow you're mellow
Whichever one is labelled with "Do not cut this wire". Which, according to 83 out of 100 bomb-squad elephants, is the blue one.
You grab the red one quickly, and I mean quickly, and snip it slowly, and I mean slowly, with your pair of trusty snippers, and I mean snippers not cutters like some of those hamfisted morons will use.
Chicken pi
16-05-2005, 23:12
I would unsuccessfully attempt to cut all three wires simultaneously.
Lunatic Goofballs
16-05-2005, 23:23
I drop the bomb in the toilet. :D
New Genoa
16-05-2005, 23:27
Dont cheat.
Blue, of course.
Red, by nature, means STOP!!!!!!!
My cousins are ALL boys, so I know stuff like this.
We made bombs when I was 6.
Alien Born
16-05-2005, 23:33
Yellow, since it isn't in either the Union Jack or the Stars and Stripes.
Lunatic Goofballs
16-05-2005, 23:33
Dont cheat.
Which brings up an interesting question: When you see a detonator attached to a huge block of C-4 plastique, why don't they pull off as much of the plastique as they can, so the explosion isn't as big if it goes off? http://www.clicksmilies.com/s0105/aktion/action-smiley-015.gif
Jebemvas
16-05-2005, 23:38
:sniper:
Blue because blue is my favorite/lucky color.
Illich Jackal
17-05-2005, 01:06
Which brings up an interesting question: When you see a detonator attached to a huge block of C-4 plastique, why don't they pull off as much of the plastique as they can, so the explosion isn't as big if it goes off? http://www.clicksmilies.com/s0105/aktion/action-smiley-015.gif
I can make a pretty decent bombmechanism, and you would be death if you tried that with one of my babies ... euh bombs ... forget about what i said *looks paranoïd*.
Almost any signal (light, chemicals, vibrations, pressure, shear stress ...) can be translated into an electrical signal, which will in turn set off the bomb. With a little bit of design, you can prevent the plastique from being taken away once it is exposed, provided that they can expose it. A combination of mechanismes to detect that someone is tampering with the bomb plus some fake wires and some clever use of capacitators will do the trick.
Lunatic Goofballs
17-05-2005, 01:10
I can make a pretty decent bombmechanism, and you would be death if you tried that with one of my babies ... euh bombs ... forget about what i said *looks paranoïd*.
Almost any signal (light, chemicals, vibrations, pressure, shear stress ...) can be translated into an electrical signal, which will in turn set off the bomb. With a little bit of design, you can prevent the plastique from being taken away once it is exposed, provided that they can expose it. A combination of mechanismes to detect that someone is tampering with the bomb plus some fake wires and some clever use of capacitators will do the trick.
Back to plan A: The toilet. :D
Back to plan A: The toilet. :Dreally... My plan A is running as far and as fast as possible.
like the shirt saying goes, "I am a member of the Bomb Squad... if you see me running, try to keep up."
Phyritia
17-05-2005, 01:21
yellow is the way to go because anyone who makes a bomb should know to make any blue or red wires the trigger. no one would think to cut the yellow wire.
Zouloukistan
17-05-2005, 01:27
I would like to cut the green one, but as it is not in rhe pool...
Nonconformitism
17-05-2005, 01:39
youre all fools, dont cut the wires, just put it somewhere more useful.
Lunatic Goofballs
17-05-2005, 01:40
youre all fools, dont cut the wires, just put it somewhere more useful.
Like in a big bowl of pudding? :)
Cannot think of a name
17-05-2005, 01:55
Should have made it a public poll (just realized I am an ass and didn't read the posts, so I may be the eighth person to say that. Lashes for not reading before posting...)
I"m dead. I chose blue and didn't even consider yellow. I am, however, colorblind so it is entirely possible that I snipped the yellow wire thinking it was the blue wire....
....hey, how'd these straws get in my hand??
Pantylvania
17-05-2005, 02:39
Anyone who watched the City Hunter movie knows how to determine the correct color
I'm having trouble with the whole concept that I would ever be in a position to have to "diffuse" a bomb. I don't think red because red usually means danger or stop. So either of the other two I guess.
THE LOST PLANET
17-05-2005, 04:09
Color means nothing, I'm a mechanical electrical engineer, I trace the circuit to determine how to disable it.
Mentholyptus
17-05-2005, 05:06
Color means nothing, I'm a mechanical electrical engineer, I trace the circuit to determine how to disable it.
Ah. See, my strategy comes from the time-honored "Smash the circuit board with a hammer!" school of bomb-defusing. Except my strategy involves using someone else to do the smashing while I watch from a safe distance, Taco Bell in hand.
Throw the bomb at the closest Republican and wish him a happy President's Day.
WiccaPower
17-05-2005, 05:12
actually in the simple bomb mechanics class i took, a standard bomb is wired in 3 wires red blue yellow. The red is the actual power the yellow would be the negative. The blue is ground blue is supposed to mean a nuetral color. If you wonder why a ground simple, the ground completes the circuit. Of you snip the red or yellow you send a spark and kaboom. If you do the blue the circut is interupted and bomb difussed. I love bomb squad, but rememver if you see me running try to keep up.
Incenjucarania
17-05-2005, 05:41
...What kind of idiot actually makes a bomb defusable?
Honestly. There's so many ways to make them too hard to tamper with...
Cover them with HUNDREDS of wires.
A rainbow of hues.
Fake the hell out of it.
Disguise it as a dozen different things.
Make a dozen different fake triggers.
Cover it in ACID.
A little creativity, you know?
...What kind of idiot actually makes a bomb defusable?
Honestly. There's so many ways to make them too hard to tamper with...
Cover them with HUNDREDS of wires.
A rainbow of hues.
Fake the hell out of it.
Disguise it as a dozen different things.
Make a dozen different fake triggers.
Cover it in ACID.
A little creativity, you know?
...Stick a troll in it and make him invent an unsolvable riddle and refuse to let the defuser into the inner bomb unless he/she solves the riddle?
Incenjucarania
17-05-2005, 05:44
...Stick a troll in it and make him invent an unsolvable riddle and refuse to let the defuser into the inner bomb unless he/she solves the riddle?
...Only if you're the fricking Riddler.
If I'm making a bomb, it WILL go off.
Legless Pirates
17-05-2005, 05:45
Plan A
Incenjucarania
17-05-2005, 05:47
But I don't have a penguin-themed submarine.
But I don't have a penguin-themed submarine.
For the last time...
http://latis.ex.ac.uk/cfarchive/duck.jpg = DUCK!
Incenjucarania
17-05-2005, 06:01
...I'm half-sure that's actually a swan.
*swans*
Ill run like the wind to a safe area :p
Dostanuot Loj
17-05-2005, 06:04
I'd rip all the wires out at the same time.
Failing that, I'd piss on it.
Who wouldn;t want to say they pissed on a bomb?