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Bomb Details Emerge in Boston Inquiry (nytimes.com)
22 points by shiftpgdn on April 16, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



I hope justice is served soon. And more than that, those who were injured recover sooner. I really liked the atlantic news article, that terror is about being terrified, we need to keep calm, and stay tight. __ Prayers from a Indian Muslim


How did they make the "pressure cookers" go off only 15 seconds apart?


the use of the term "pressure cooker" seems somewhat unfortunate after i just finished reading this: http://what-if.xkcd.com/40/


That XKCD is creative, I guess, but you don't have to get creative for a steam boiler to be dangerous. This just happened 10 days ago http://www.wmur.com/news/nh-news/3-UNH-students-burned-from-...


It's used to describe the actual construction of at least one (and probably both) of the bombs. What are the alternatives?




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