I spent three hours today trying to find the right explosive to blow open the door on a bank vault. At the end of the day I still couldn’t figure it out. On the news they talk about how easy it is to find out how to make a bomb on the internet and I couldn’t do it. I don’t know if that is a good thing or a bad thing. Oh there was lots of information about explosives in general, this one is powerful, this one not so powerful, and a whole lot of mathematical formulas. But nothing that said this type blows up this material best. That was what I needed.
I tried looking up bank robberies to see what was used in the past. Apparently almost all bank robberies are carried out by either kidnapping the manager or the old note to the teller routine. While it was all very interesting, I couldn’t find how to blow open the door.
So in the end I described the bomb as a bunch of cylinders taped together attached to colorful wires. The scene is from my heroine’s point of view, andshe’s not a bomb expert, so she wouldn’t know exactly what she was looking at either.
I guess you can’t learn everything from the internet. If you know differently, please let me know.