The wrong way to attack the problem

One thing I really hate about television is that it's a unidirectional form of communication, which leaves the audience with no way of providing feedback. I saw a really funny comedian tonight, but he'll never know how hard he had me laughing. I don't remember his name, but he was wearing camouflage - I think it was on "World News Tonight". Anyway, he told this joke about how Americans should be concerned that terrorists have easy access to electronics which they can use to detonate bombs. I bet it takes years of training to be able to say something that absurd with a straight face.

Although this man was surely joking he did, in fact, give me a brilliant idea. You see, thousands of Americans die every year in automobile accidents. These deaths could easily be prevented if we simply suck up all of Earth's atmosphere and expel it so far into outer space that it can't come back. Without oxygen engines won't run, people won't be able drive so fast, and deaths from automobile accidents will all but disappear. Great idea, right?

You'd think, based on the way the camouflaged man was talking, that terrorists depend on complex electronics like long-range radios and cellular phones to detonate bombs. I looked into the matter, and after several months of intense research, I was able to come up with the following circuit diagram, which illustrates the design of a typical bomb detonator:

A voltage source and a switch. It's like electronics for chimpanzees. The voltage needn't be unusually high either, since the primary charge is typically something sensitive. Now consider the fact that a button, switch, transistor - just about anything electronic which operates with two or more states - could theoretically be used to detonate a bomb.

Do you get the joke yet?