Beirut Blast
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@Hooroo said in Beirut Blast:
@mariner4life said in Beirut Blast:
those videos are amazing!
That shockwave though!!!
Shit, that was almost Hiroshima like. Obviously on a much tinier scale, but it was still pretty damn big and to captured on the ground in close proximity like that, scary
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Having made and discharged ANFO bombs, though not of that size, that's awesome to watch. Quite why you'd leave near three tonnes of the stuff in a port is enormously negligent.
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@Hooroo said in Beirut Blast:
@mariner4life said in Beirut Blast:
those videos are amazing!
That shockwave though!!!
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@antipodean Fucking Jesus, I'm not a religious person but prayers go out to those people
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that shockwave makes my only real frame of reference for such thing, movies, look stupid, thats unbelievable
amazing just forgetting about something like that and leaving it sitting around could have such a result
anyone with more knowledge, this is just from it sitting around for a long time...degrading in some way?
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@antipodean I have no idea how it's not thousands dead. It just disintegrates that building. I wish there was footage of CCTV as they don't chicken out and turn their back and drop phone....
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@antipodean FUCK!
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@Kiwiwomble said in Beirut Blast:
that shockwave makes my only real frame of reference for such thing, movies, look stupid, thats unbelievable
amazing just forgetting about something like that and leaving it sitting around could have such a result
anyone with more knowledge, this is just from it sitting around for a long time...degrading in some way?
Something tells me storing that stuff like that was not OSH approved
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I'd hazard the only saving grace is if the port wasn't busy and is reasonably isolated. I don't know Beirut well enough to say. But given my limited experience with ANFO, the results once they can get in will be devastating.
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@Kiwiwomble said in Beirut Blast:
that shockwave makes my only real frame of reference for such thing, movies, look stupid, thats unbelievable
amazing just forgetting about something like that and leaving it sitting around could have such a result
anyone with more knowledge, this is just from it sitting around for a long time...degrading in some way?
It's an oxidising agent. It doesn't degrade as such, but if subjected to large shock or a fire can explode. It'll sit around quite happily until you provide an ignition source. Given its properties, you'd never store that much together in one place.
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There is another vid on facebook circulating that is the best so far in terms of showing the impact of the blast. They are high up and much further away!
Alas, I have no idea how to post it on here. If someone that is on my facebook knows how to, I will tag them in.
It's spectacular
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@taniwharugby said in Beirut Blast:
@Hooroo is easier on desktop than phone, tag me and I'll do it
Tagged now
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@taniwharugby Nope, not that one