http://www.wral.com/news/national_world/national/story/8749441/

Anyone got a link to watch this? I think this will be quite neat to watch.

For the record while I kinda wanna see something blow up, I hope it doesnt as it will massively destroy the neighborhood and put a lot of people in danger.

12/9/2010 11:56:29 AM

so lots of unstable explosive + 1800 degree fire != giant explosion??

i wanna watch too

12/9/2010 11:59:48 AM

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"The house was rented by an out-of-work software consultant who allegedly assembled an astonishing quantity of bomb-making materials that included chemicals used by Middle Eastern suicide bombers. Investigators are still trying to understand his motivation for allegedly possessing the material. Bomb-squad experts determined the residence was too dangerous to go inside, so they drew up plans to burn it down. The home is so cluttered with unstable chemicals that even bomb-disposing robots can't be used to enter it. The fire is expected to reach about 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit — hot enough to neutralize the unstable explosives inside."

12/9/2010 12:00:12 PM

yeah i saw that, it's just that fire + explosives always seems to me like it'll blow up. i don't know enough about it to understand how it won't explode.

12/9/2010 12:01:50 PM

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"The home is so cluttered with unstable chemicals that even bomb-disposing robots can't be used to enter it."

This sounds like the beginning to a movie.

12/9/2010 12:06:20 PM

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"Verdi, a veteran of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who was inside the home several times, testified that the HMTD found was "an amount we had never seen, either domestically or internationally." "My first entry into the backyard, it was like we were entering into a minefield," he said."

Ar they going to burn down the backyard too?

12/9/2010 12:07:49 PM

where's the guy who rented the house? have we never heard about this before now?

12/9/2010 12:26:57 PM

luckily california is not a state that has had problems with fire in the past.

12/9/2010 12:28:15 PM

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"Bomb squad officers who inspected the property believe Jakubec has manufactured so many devices for so long that "even he has forgotten the location and type of explosives stashed throughout the property," prosecutors said in a court filing."

12/9/2010 12:30:39 PM

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"yeah i saw that, it's just that fire + explosives always seems to me like it'll blow up. i don't know enough about it to understand how it won't explode."

High explosives typically burn (really hot) when exposed to flames.
They need to be detonated/super compressed with a primer of some sort to explode.

12/9/2010 1:46:46 PM

Holy crap.

I presume they're using some sort of incendiary chemical to get the fire up to 1800 degrees? Just hope it doesn't react with the explosives...I can only assume they know what they doing though.

12/9/2010 1:50:57 PM

ya well if escondido blows up we wouldn't lose much its a bit ghetto. but this made big news still is. only 15 mins north of SD

12/9/2010 1:54:06 PM

well, San Diego is home of the largest EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) division in the US Navy, so i think they have good resources available.

12/9/2010 1:55:43 PM

I would imagine you'd just hold a lighter up to it and let it do its own thing.
Explosives burning aught to reach that temp on their own.

12/9/2010 1:56:51 PM

it doesnt get to that temp immediately. think about that.

12/9/2010 1:57:44 PM

burning now: http://video.ap.org/?pid=R9msqOsYZ2TmkWttgWjBgV72_tYSs_Oh&f=YOURIDHERE

12/9/2010 2:30:33 PM

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"This sounds like the beginning to a movie."

That was my first thought too

12/9/2010 2:34:16 PM

basically done sounds like

12/9/2010 2:37:30 PM