That explosion was HUGE.....can't wait to hear the story behind this one...
Looked like they dropped another "little boy".
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That explosion was HUGE.....can't wait to hear the story behind this one...
Looked like they dropped another "little boy".
just heard that the military was storing materials there...
Will the finger pointing begin before the funerals?
What an awful situation.
it really did seem a little quiet in the middle east lately...... my hearts goes out to the lebanese. this probably isn't going to be good
and syrian civilians
Just a matter of time.
https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-...ntl/index.html
Something akin to the 2013 Texas fertilizer plant explosion is a lot more likely than a nuclear bomb.
i'd agree, and current running story is "confiscated high explosives", but being so close to port makes me wonder about a terror attack...
Who knows? All I know is that WAS NOT a "fireworks factory". That shock wave cloud was huge and reports of the explosion being heard 150 miles away...
hit twitter with the beruit search and you'll see lots of other angles, further away the better...its insane....Quote:
Originally Posted by uglymoney
I heard ammonium nitrate stockpile
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Yeah did that. Dude driving a car got hammered.https://twitter.com/air_intel/status...813838337?s=20Quote:
Originally Posted by Skidog
Facility already on fire and no "flash," definitely stockpiled ammonium nitrate/conventional explosives/rocket fuel/etc. and not nuclear.Quote:
Originally Posted by uglymoney
Still absolutely fucking crazy. Makes the 1988 PEPCON explosion look tame :eek:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPVpzjxRjPk
"There i was, just driving along...."Quote:
Originally Posted by uglymoney
Man, I hope the death toll doesn't get massive.
I hope you all got that I really didn't think it was nuclear. We would for sure know if it was..just such a huge explosion.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dantheman
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Can't stop watching the explosions from different angles. Those poor people
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No, you made that clear. Just anticipating the inevitable wave of morons who think that only nuclear weapons can produce a visible shock wave and mushroom cloud.Quote:
Originally Posted by Skidog
Man, the death toll is going to be huge. Any word on how the initial fire started?
I am shocked and blown away that that amount of explosives was all kept in one place.
I take it you've never been to the middle east.Quote:
Originally Posted by MakersTeleMark
Antimatter weapon. :biggrin:
Holy shit!Quote:
Originally Posted by uglymoney
You can see ammo clearly cooking off in this version right before the big boom.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1290750390296879106
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Lebanese President Michel Aoun has said that it is "unacceptable" that 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate were stored in a warehouse for six years without safety measures, according to statements published on the presidency's Twitter account.
Aoun pledged that those responsible would face the "harshest punishments".
Wonder what harsh punishment means?
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Works out to about ~1 KT TNT equivalent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT_equivalentQuote:
Originally Posted by MakersTeleMark
Or, 1/20th of the Nagasaki bomb. Really puts the destructive power of nukes in perspective.
Yeah I've seen 1 or 2 vids where it looks like "firecrackers" popping off near the fire. Might be why initial reports were fireworks factory. I'll bet it was munitions too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Toadman
Again news said confiscated high explosives from a ship or something. Maybe it was all still sitting in the ship as why it was all in one place..could've been brought there knowing it would be confiscated and the set on fire...who the hell can ever tell this early?
Very sad no matter the cause. Just insane.
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Well it's just fertilizer. Until it's not.Quote:
Originally Posted by MakersTeleMark
~⅓ the size of the Halifax Harbor explosion.
I came here for a discussion about a drinking game, and all I see is explosion bullshit. WTF indeed.
I was shopping in the Hamra neighborhood of Beirut on June 13th 2007, about 1km away from the car bomb that killed Walid Eido, an anti-Syrian MP. That car bomb had about 80kg of explosives and the destruction was significant. I can't fathom what 2750 tonnes of explosives would be like. I've been to Beirut twice and I still consider it one of my favorite cities on earth. The whole thing is heartbreaking.
Oklahoma City bombing was 2 tons of ammonium nitrate. 2750 is a lot more.
Why? Always curious on peoples favorite places.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buke
Some extended family recently spent several years working in Beirut. Covfefe brought her back at the beginning of the year. One of her friends who is still over there sent a video of the street she lived on. 10 and 15 story buildings leveled.
Good question. Not sure I have a real good answer. Probably most of it has to do with the circumstances that took me there. A good friend from high school moved there after we graduated. He lived there for probably 17 of the last 20 years. He only just left Beirut about a year ago to move to Ireland where his wife is from. I visited him when I was in college and it was my first trip overseas. So a lot of my romantic feelings for the place have to do with getting a chance to spend a couple weeks there when I was young and getting an insider look into life there.Quote:
Originally Posted by muted
But there's more to it than that. Beirut is in some ways a very progressive city on the mediterranean with a highly educated international feel. But you just barely scratch the surface and you're in a very conservative middle eastern culture. They have amazing beach resorts where there will be beautiful Lebanese women wearing bikinis and partying and drinking cocktails and 10' away there will be a conservative muslim family and the women will be swimming in their full body coverings not showing any skin at all. It's such an eclectic mix. Add in the general chaos of the place that's held over from the civil war. I haven't seen anything like it anywhere else. Even Kabul in 2002 was more orderly. People talk about how crazy the driving and traffic is in India but I'd say that it's at least 10x more insane in Lebanon than it is in Delhi. Add in beautiful mountains and forests and it's just a really special place. The cliche is that you can ski in the morning and swim in the Mediterranean in the afternoon. I don't know if anyone has actually done it but it could definitely be done.
Per The Stable Genius, it was an attack.
So in other words, it was completely something not related to an attack.
It was a flame invasion.
Build a wall!Quote:
Originally Posted by MakersTeleMark
Let me be the first to blame Israel, or, what is Hezbollah for $500 Alex.
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