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re: Extremely massive explosion in Beirut.
Posted on 8/4/20 at 3:14 pm to facher08
Posted on 8/4/20 at 3:14 pm to facher08
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Can anyone with an engineering or construction background allude to what effect that shockwave might have on the structural integrity of those nearby high rises?
It's going to need a paint job and a shite load of screen doors.
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Posted on 8/4/20 at 3:15 pm to GetCocky11
So these geniuses stored 50 metric shite-tons of highly explosive nitrate on the port, in one of the busiest parts of their city, next to their nation's grain reserves.
Jesus.
Jesus.
Posted on 8/4/20 at 3:16 pm to When in Rome
Has to be top 2 of the biggest explosions in the world after WWII
Posted on 8/4/20 at 3:16 pm to Fun Bunch
Dayum
Posted on 8/4/20 at 3:16 pm to Fun Bunch
And then they invited a Chinese fireworks boat to join the party.
Posted on 8/4/20 at 3:17 pm to Fun Bunch
And the material that blew up was seized material that was being kept in storage. It was material that was banned from entering the country. And apparently, the material has been sitting there for something like 6 years.
This according to an interview on Al-Jazeera.
This according to an interview on Al-Jazeera.
Posted on 8/4/20 at 3:18 pm to shawnlsu
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Has to be top 2 of the biggest explosions in the world after WWII
Not even close, if you count bomb testing.
If you don't count bomb testing, then maybe.
Posted on 8/4/20 at 3:19 pm to yaboidarrell
quote:hell you can probably count 10 bodies in that video alone
Short clip of the aftermath. R.I.P. NSFW
Posted on 8/4/20 at 3:21 pm to TheFonz
People have always talked about the possibility of a US nuclear plant exploding or melting down.
Several members of my family have worked for a well known chemical plant, and the safety guidance literature they would send out yearly makes it clear what is the bigger threat. By and large, nuclear plants are a controlled environment with strict evacuation plans. Chemical plants are the exact opposite.
If the plant they worked for were to, for whatever reason, explode on a large scale, it is estimated that it would have a roughly 5 mile kill radius, and a knockdown radius of 15 miles or so. It has been some years since I saw the literature, so that is a rough estimate.
Right after 9/11, when the lists of potential targets came out, and every nuclear plant, naturally, was on it, but no chemical plants were, my Pops just laughed. He maintained the plant they worked at was a much more vulnerable and dangerous target than most others.
Hell, they stored chlorine gas in above ground tankers and used explosives as additives!
Several members of my family have worked for a well known chemical plant, and the safety guidance literature they would send out yearly makes it clear what is the bigger threat. By and large, nuclear plants are a controlled environment with strict evacuation plans. Chemical plants are the exact opposite.
If the plant they worked for were to, for whatever reason, explode on a large scale, it is estimated that it would have a roughly 5 mile kill radius, and a knockdown radius of 15 miles or so. It has been some years since I saw the literature, so that is a rough estimate.
Right after 9/11, when the lists of potential targets came out, and every nuclear plant, naturally, was on it, but no chemical plants were, my Pops just laughed. He maintained the plant they worked at was a much more vulnerable and dangerous target than most others.
Hell, they stored chlorine gas in above ground tankers and used explosives as additives!
Posted on 8/4/20 at 3:22 pm to ForeverLSU02
Didn’t Iran get caught shipping ammunition’s out of Beirut one time?
This post was edited on 8/4/20 at 3:23 pm
Posted on 8/4/20 at 3:23 pm to yaboidarrell
Damn, that's terrible. fricking blew their clothes off.
Posted on 8/4/20 at 3:24 pm to LSUBoo
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Not even close, if you count bomb testing.
If you don't count bomb testing, then maybe.
Sorry, I should have said "public explosion"
Posted on 8/4/20 at 3:24 pm to shawnlsu
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Has to be top 2 of the biggest explosions in the world after WWII
No not even close. There's been ammonium nitrate explosions just after WWII that were much bigger including the 2,100 metric ton explosion in Texas in 1947.
Beirut was 50 metric tons (supposedly) of sodium nitrate.
ETA Largest Non Nuclear Explosions
This post was edited on 8/4/20 at 3:26 pm
Posted on 8/4/20 at 3:24 pm to Fun Bunch
That might be one of the largest explosions I have seen not involving a volcano.
Posted on 8/4/20 at 3:25 pm to Alt26
Hezbollah has a strong control on the port of Beirut. Not anymore. I’m thinking this was some type of sabotage by the Israelis.
Posted on 8/4/20 at 3:26 pm to Fun Bunch
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So these geniuses stored 50 metric shite-tons of highly explosive nitrate on the port, in one of the busiest parts of their city, next to their nation's grain reserves.
Jesus.
Always have to ask questions when one of the best explosive oxidizers the human race has synthesized is stored in mass quantities next to extraneous fuel sources
Negligence and incompetence to an insane degree.
This post was edited on 8/4/20 at 3:36 pm
Posted on 8/4/20 at 3:27 pm to Pettifogger
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Probably posted, but a solid first person view of the secondary blast that is pretty much how I think it'd feel to watch a nuke hit
Holy shite that is insane!!!!! A slow mo of that would be cool
Posted on 8/4/20 at 3:28 pm to shawnlsu
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Sorry, I should have said "public explosion
The blast overpressure definitely seems to be in the hundreds of psi at the fireball radius, which is already a ways out there. It doesn’t take but a very small fraction of that to blow out windows and given the size of the blast, the point for the blast wave to decay to even that magnitude would encompass so many buildings. Just a really really sad situation.
That is definitely one of the larger shock fronts I’ve ever seen outside of bombs.
This post was edited on 8/4/20 at 3:30 pm
Posted on 8/4/20 at 3:29 pm to LegendInMyMind
quote:
People have always talked about the possibility of a US nuclear plant exploding or melting down.
Several members of my family have worked for a well known chemical plant, and the safety guidance literature they would send out yearly makes it clear what is the bigger threat. By and large, nuclear plants are a controlled environment with strict evacuation plans. Chemical plants are the exact opposite.
If the plant they worked for were to, for whatever reason, explode on a large scale, it is estimated that it would have a roughly 5 mile kill radius, and a knockdown radius of 15 miles or so. It has been some years since I saw the literature, so that is a rough estimate.
Right after 9/11, when the lists of potential targets came out, and every nuclear plant, naturally, was on it, but no chemical plants were, my Pops just laughed. He maintained the plant they worked at was a much more vulnerable and dangerous target than most others.
Hell, they stored chlorine gas in above ground tankers and used explosives as additives!
TD terrorists right now be like
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