We know for a fact that intelligence agencies intercept shipments of devices to plant bugs, or back doors, or in this case explosives, ALL THE TIME

I love conspiracy theorizing as much as the next guy around here, but in this environment, we (especially, given the environment) can’t lose our critical reasoning skills.

It’s like with 9/11 : was it holograms and nukes or some well placed thermite placed by israeli “art students”…. Well, the evidence clearly leans one way over the other

Estimate the number of atoms in the battery and then the total number of Jules available. Now consider a way to make it release all the energy in a very short amount of time

Lol, when everything is made in china, doesnt seem that hard to me.

The hardest part woulda been having someone inside hamas who made sure they bought the units.

There was a thread in r/conspiracy where someone pointed out that the company that made the pagers, just hired someone new about a year ago and they are making something like 300,000 a year. I cant find this thread of course now. but Some interesting tidbits here.

Speaking to Israeli troops on Wednesday, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said, “We are at the start of a new phase in the war — it requires courage, determination and perseverance.” He made no mention of the exploding devices but praised the work of Israel’s army and security agencies, saying “the results are very impressive.”

In Wednesday’s attacks, several blasts were heard at a funeral in Beirut for three Hezbollah members and a child killed by exploding pagers the day before, according to Associated Press journalists at the scene. An AP photographer in the southern coastal city of Sidon saw a car and a mobile phone shop damaged after devices exploded inside of them. The state news agency reported home solar energy system blowing up in several locations, but experts cast doubt on whether those incidents were connected, saying they may have been coincidental accidents.

Mary Ellen O’Connell, a professor of law and international peace studies at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, said booby-traps are banned under international law. “Weaponizing an object used by civilians is strictly prohibited,” she said.

The pager bombings appeared to be a complex operation months in the making, with many experts believing Israel infiltrated the supply chain and rigged hundreds of pagers with explosives before they were imported to Lebanon. But little evidence has emerged so far.

Gold Apollo, a Taiwanese firm, said it authorized a Hungary-based company, BAC Consulting KFT, to use its name on devices delivered to Hezbollah. But a Hungarian government spokesman said Wednesday the pagers delivered to Hezbollah were never in Hungary and that BAC Consultants merely acted as an intermediary.

:Shrugs: Radio waves have so little energy going through them, if you amped up the energy enough to actually explode anything, it would prolly kill any living thing if the beam hits it for more than a few seconds lmao. I just dont see it.

alchemists … is what would need to be the case for them to transmute the solid matter of the device into the energy required for a lethal explosion

Yeah I did. Doesn’t change the fact no one has observed anything approaching “transmuting matter to energy with radio waves”, but we have many documented cases of israelis planting bombs in locations where they would harm civilians.

Like another commenter says, how could they possibly target this technology onto individual devices? There are so many unjustified assumptions. Let’s say that israel somehow has the ability to “charge up” people’s devices with energy somehow and make them explode. And somehow this tech, presumably from satellites, is so advanced it can target individual devices somehow, despite its signal hitting every device in the area. Why wouldn’t they just shoot these energy beams into your brain?

This story requires more suspension of disbelief than star wars