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In reply to the discussion: An unemployed grad student... [View all]slampoet
(5,032 posts)and a lot of other places it shows up as easy knowledge.
Neurobiology requires that you take chemistry. Experiments in Physics experiments often have triggers that could be used for other things. Heck, even parts of a garage door opener could be used for this kind of crap. And let's face it, nothing went off so this little terrorist doesn't seem to know anything about timers or cell phone triggers. He is less sophisticated than the Iraqi's at least, not that even those kinds of things take a lot of special knowledge.
Remember that in Vietnam it was little kids and people who had never been to school who were rigging booby traps.
I don't know AT ALL why you think that any knowledge can't be found easily in this day and age.
Hell. I just cooked a chicken recipe from 1532 the other day, but I didn't have to get a time machine, just a book, scanned on the net.