"Lone terrorist" bill

[Thomas Shaddack]

On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Mike Rosing wrote:
> > with a lid. There were two contacts mounted on the lid, and a metal plate
> > in the pot, laid on the layer of dried pea. You added water, the pea
> > sterted to swell and rise the metal plate. When the plate touched the
> > contacts, you were far away.
>
> That's a pretty nead idea for a detonator.  Especially in a haystack :-)

Together with mechanical (or, even better, chemical) ignitors you can
achieve a timer construction completely without metal parts.

Doesn't have to necessarily serve as a detonator. If used to control some
mechanical setup, can trigger virtually anything that needs gentle pushing
of something.

A bit medievalish technology, but can withstand an EMP hit. Which could
one day become a nicely sized advantage...