tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post4552977743795922904..comments2024-03-15T06:02:30.623+00:00Comments on The Lockerbie Case: Lockerbie: Bomb trigger or clever fake?Robert Blackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03606456028430261555noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-78309505450475981242016-03-06T20:44:00.433+00:002016-03-06T20:44:00.433+00:00"Was PT/35b, the infamous printed circuit boa..."Was PT/35b, the infamous printed circuit board fragment, actually lodged in the cloth at that time? It’s impossible to say, but at the moment it has not been proved that it wasn’t."<br /><br />Let's play with some postulates.<br /><br />1) MEBO did not produce a timer of which PT/35b could have been a fragment.<br />This seems to be a fact. So it was produced by somebody else. As you ask "Who made it, and why?"<br /><br />We are now at another postulate:<br /><br />2) The fragment comes from a timer that actually worked, and was aboard the 103.<br />If we regard this as true, can we in any way imagine that this was not the bomb timer? That the timer was in a nearby suitcase, close enough to have been blown up.<br />This theory appears absurd. <br /><br />So, accepting (2) means that we have to accept:<br />3) Somebody made a perfect copy of MEBO's timer for functionality reasons<br />(so the plane could be blown up with it).<br /><br />I have pointed out before, that for the functionality of a knock-off product there is no reason whatsoever to photographically copy the layout of the print. <br />In fact it is so unlikely to be the way that is has not been seen in the history of electronics. A copy-of-functionality does never, ever copy the layout of the pcb. Chips, other components, buttons, cabinets, some of them hard to find - you'd give yourself factors of more work, for no good reason at all. <br /><br />Copying the pcb is layman's thinking. <br />Plausible, maybe, but it does not make more sense that if some third-world farmer should want to copy a well-functioning UK farm, and to that end went out of his way to import rope from Bristol Rope and Twine Co Ltd to tie the cows, because that was the kind of ropes used on the farm he copies.<br />It simply can't happen. People with such a brainless understanding of farming is not in the business of copying them.<br /><br />This is important. Ask around you, if you know any electronics producers: would you ever copy the pcb in details for the mere functionality? Could you imagine that somebody would? If you get a single "yes" just forget about this.<br /><br />In my opinion we can reject (3), which forces us to reject (2).<br /><br />So:<br />(5) The PT/35b was not on the plane, and does not come from a working timer.<br />If (5) is true we only have<br />(6) PT/35b was produced as false evidence<br />as the only reasonable explanation.<br />SMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13272238187226269250noreply@blogger.com