• Echo Dot
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    272 months ago

    Getting batteries to release energy isn’t very difficult, even getting them to release it quickly isn’t very difficult. What’s difficult is getting them to release it over the course of a few milliseconds. Which is what you would need for an explosion.

    If the battery simply dumped all its power over the course of 30 seconds that’s basically just a fire that you can run away from.

    Also I wouldn’t have thought a pager had that much charge, I wouldn’t have thought this sort of thing would be possible as they would tend to just go off with a loud bang, assuming you could even get them to release all the energy at once l, which again I wouldn’t have thought was possible.

    For fairly obvious reasons I don’t think we’re ever going to find out how this was done.

    • umami_wasabi
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      32 months ago

      Maybe there will be a faulty one laying somwhere now thrown away by the owner? That will be nice for analysis.