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A time bomb's timing mechanism may be professionally manufactured either separately or as part of the device, or it may be improvised from an ordinary household timer such as a wind-up alarm clock, wrist watch, digital kitchen timer, or notebook computer. The timer can be programmed to count up or count down (usually the latter; as the bomb ...
Time for Timer is a series of seven short public service announcements broadcast on Saturday mornings on the ABC television network starting in 1975. The animated spots feature Timer, a tiny cartoon character who is an anthropomorphic circadian rhythm , the self-proclaimed "keeper of body time."
Except for the last few minutes, which are highly automated and rigid, scheduled activities rarely take exactly the scheduled time, and the T-minus clock only corresponds approximately to the time until launch. A hold is the suspension of the normal countdown process, during which the T-minus clock is stopped and no planned activities take ...
A typical kitchen timer. A timer or countdown timer is a type of clock that starts from a specified time duration and stops upon reaching 00:00. An example of a simple timer is an hourglass. Commonly, a timer triggers an alarm when it ends. A timer can be implemented through hardware or software.
Within a burnt shirt neckband was a fragment of circuit board, which the CIA and FBI said matched a component of an MST-13 bomb timer. A similar timer had been seized in Togo and traced to a Swiss ...
8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown is a British comedy panel show on Channel 4. The show follows the game of Countdown, but presented in a comedy panel show format seen on 8 Out of 10 Cats, with the show being a crossover of the two. The show is hosted by Jimmy Carr, with Rachel Riley and Susie Dent assuming their Countdown roles.
A few years back, Fabio, then a newly minted U.S. citizen, spoke to Yahoo about his latest projects — as well as that long-standing dislike of social media he mentioned.
Each bomb will also have a countdown timer; if the timer reaches zero, the bomb will explode. Bombs will also have a maximum number of strikes resulting from errors made during defusing (also speeding the timer), and if that maximum is reached, the bomb will also explode.