Rem(a)inders of a Previous War
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A 500 kg bomb was found in Wiesbaden. 10,000 people had to leave their homes or offices for safety reasons. Also motorways and railways were closed for a couple of hours.
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Business idea:
Sell overpriced RFID tags as "post-war dud locators". Get them legally mandated on any and all ordnance sold by EU members. Rake in cash.I mean, if you stick a tag on a bomb, in a place that won't get it crushed by a dud meeting the ground, then it'll serve as a locator after the dust has settled. Could have a lot of the bombs discovered by means other than excavator-blade-goes-clang. And if the bomb actually worked, it'll kill the RFID tag in the process, so you don't even need to actually change the tags. Just sell normal tags at a "military grade" markup.
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@acrow Find my iBomb
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@acrow said in Rem(a)inders of a Previous War:
Business idea:
Sell overpriced RFID tags as "post-war dud locators". Get them legally mandated on any and all ordnance sold by EU members. Rake in cash.And then, someone makes a bomb that detonates when it detects the scanner's RF field.
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@Zerosquare That'd be nice. We wouldn't even need to dig up the ordnance to dispose of it. Easiest EOD work ever.
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Next bomb.
This evening, motorway A5 will be closed, and Frankfurt Airport's traffic will be reduced for a couple of hours while a phosphor bomb will be deactivated.
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I cannot believe that I've let this thread live this long without mentioning the best way to get rid of unexploded bombs: find some livestock that's slated to be destroyed, and have it run over the bombs. Mad cows in England, unexploded bombs in France, a match made in heaven.
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Oh, yeah, this thread. Last week in Rotterdam:
British 250-pounder, buried eight metres deep. It had been discovered in 2016 already, but at the time it was decided to leave it alone because at that depth there was no risk. But now, new houses are to be built there, whose foundations could/would disturb it, so they dug it out after evacuating nearby residents and closing the local airspace.
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@PotatoEngineer said in Rem(a)inders of a Previous War:
livestock ... have it run over the bombs
Ehm, that's Germany's most important airport, not a cow meadow!