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Posted: 12/29/2023 4:45:23 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/29/2023 4:47:09 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/29/2023 4:47:44 PM EDT
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In all the videos I've seen of that explosion I'm always surprised that nobody seems to take cover from the incoming pressure wave. People are fucking clueless, especially in Beirut apparently
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Posted: 12/29/2023 4:50:29 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: In all the videos I've seen of that explosion I'm always surprised that nobody seems to take cover from the incoming pressure wave. People are fucking clueless, especially in Beirut apparently normalcy bias is a bitch |
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Posted: 12/29/2023 4:52:01 PM EDT
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Bovine flatulence and globular warming is real (eye keeed).
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Posted: 12/29/2023 4:55:44 PM EDT
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It was fascinating to see how much destruction could be unleashed this day and age in a city from a single explosion, if only on the docks.
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Posted: 12/29/2023 4:59:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: In all the videos I've seen of that explosion I'm always surprised that nobody seems to take cover from the incoming pressure wave. People are fucking clueless, especially in Beirut apparently It certainly is good training for doing the needful. “Don’t stand there Gawking, duck and Cover!!!” The thing is, we aren’t genetically adapted for Large explosions. Our every instinct is to Look and See. I’m not 100% certain I would duck in time, even after seeing hundreds of videos. |
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Posted: 12/29/2023 5:00:09 PM EDT
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What was the death toll?
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Posted: 12/29/2023 5:00:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: In all the videos I've seen of that explosion I'm always surprised that nobody seems to take cover from the incoming pressure wave. People are fucking clueless, especially in Beirut apparently Did see one guy filming from a jet-ski. He dove in the water as soon as the blast occurred. |
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Posted: 12/29/2023 5:00:46 PM EDT
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I still think that dock explosion is still fucking over Lebanon to this very day.
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Posted: 12/29/2023 5:03:18 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Did see one guy filming from a jet-ski. He dove in the water as soon as the blast occurred.  Ed, Edd n Eddy [S4E04] An Ed Is Born - " MAN THE HELMS! DIVE! DIVE!" |
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Posted: 12/29/2023 5:03:24 PM EDT
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Mossad/someone inside job or just an accident?
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Posted: 12/29/2023 5:11:46 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: In all the videos I've seen of that explosion I'm always surprised that nobody seems to take cover from the incoming pressure wave. People are fucking clueless, especially in Beirut apparently Unless you’re familiar with blast waves, I think the typical person seeing something at that scale will be a bit mesmerized, the brain not quite registering what it’s seeing on what’s otherwise meant to be a very normal, mundane day. 1980s Beirut was a long time ago. |
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Posted: 12/29/2023 5:12:54 PM EDT
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What did they blame that one on?
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Posted: 12/29/2023 5:13:43 PM EDT
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Anyone know the impact of it being on the water front vs a similar sized event happening on land?
I would assume the water would absorb some of the energy but would it redirect it, especially since the area was relatively open and flat before getting into the city/buildings? Edit- Pretty good basic overview of the blast. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2021.657996/full |
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Posted: 12/29/2023 5:15:56 PM EDT
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Blast?
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Posted: 12/29/2023 5:18:46 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: In all the videos I've seen of that explosion I'm always surprised that nobody seems to take cover from the incoming pressure wave. People are fucking clueless, especially in Beirut apparently Physics can be hard to grasp. For me anyway. Amazing how fast a body can go from seemingly sitting still in a car, and then in the blink of an eye be out the windshield. Or toss a bullet to someone vs shooting it. |
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Posted: 12/29/2023 5:19:38 PM EDT
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Need a few of those in Gaza.
Quoted: In all the videos I've seen of that explosion I'm always surprised that nobody seems to take cover from the incoming pressure wave. People are fucking clueless, especially in Beirut apparently I've asked friends who worked in the ME/SW Asia about certain behaviors, or lack of certain behaviors when it comes to the locals... Their typical response is usually, "yeah, they aren't really all that bright." |
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Posted: 12/29/2023 5:20:35 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Anyone know the impact of it being on the water front vs a similar sized event happening on land? I would assume the water would absorb some of the energy but would it redirect it, especially since the area was relatively open and flat before getting into the city/buildings? Think it was a warehouse. How many casualties? |
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Posted: 12/29/2023 5:20:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Anyone know the impact of it being on the water front vs a similar sized event happening on land? I would assume the water would absorb some of the energy but would it redirect it, especially since the area was relatively open and flat before getting into the city/buildings? Water does not absorb it. It will redirect it though. |
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Posted: 12/29/2023 5:22:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Think it was a warehouse. How many casualties? Not enough. |
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Posted: 12/29/2023 5:22:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: In all the videos I've seen of that explosion I'm always surprised that nobody seems to take cover from the incoming pressure wave. People are fucking clueless, especially in Beirut apparently The people in Beirut are clueless? How much money, time and effort did the US spend to get the message through to our population about the need to drop and take cover during the Cold War? And, how many, today, would have the reaction to do so? |
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Posted: 12/29/2023 5:22:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: In all the videos I've seen of that explosion I'm always surprised that nobody seems to take cover from the incoming pressure wave. People are fucking clueless, especially in Beirut apparently If they did the duck and cover we would not have the footage we do thus we could not talk about it to the degree we get too. |
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Posted: 12/29/2023 5:25:59 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What did they blame that one on? The number-one cause of Soviet nuclear submarine losses. |
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Posted: 12/29/2023 5:26:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Think it was a warehouse. How many casualties? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Anyone know the impact of it being on the water front vs a similar sized event happening on land? I would assume the water would absorb some of the energy but would it redirect it, especially since the area was relatively open and flat before getting into the city/buildings? Think it was a warehouse. How many casualties? Yeah, it was a warehouse. I should've said "in the city/urban center" instead of "land." I was originally misremembered and was thinking the blast came from a ship, like the older port explosions. Directly from the blast, about 220 dead and 6,500 injured. Longterm health issues from toxic exposure could be anywhere from a few hundred thousand upto ~2.5million. Quoted: Water does not absorb it. It will redirect it though. Thanks. My quick google search wasn't very successful at finding a good comparison model. I was assuming the blast energy would compress the water somewhat but thinking about it now, it would mainly be moving horizontally, and therefore, at most just clipping the tops of the waves. |
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Posted: 12/29/2023 5:28:33 PM EDT
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Yeah, that was incredible in terms of scale and scope. Never seen anything like it. Really did seem like a nuke going off.
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Posted: 12/29/2023 5:35:16 PM EDT
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Quoted: It is one of the few ultra large scale explosions filmed from multiple angles and also in an urban setting. At about 2 kilotons, this blast is still smaller than a smaller atomic blast like the Hiroshima bomb. (15-20 kilotons) but it gives us a taste of what a man portable nuclear device could do. (It is said that “Suitcase nukes” could have yields as high as 2-5 kilotons). To put into perspective the scale of even a 1 kiloton blast….that is almost 1000 MOABs. The first part of this is an angle I have not seen. The white building is just disintegrating right before the blast hits the camera. https://x.com/alphafox78/status/1740575037177188520?s=46&t=dWZPf-MKwVcPjAxwWYmM0A 7th August 2020, 12:05 PDT EPA/TONY VRAILAS/MARINETRAFFIC.COM The MV Rhosus arrived at the port in 2013 carrying 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate Lebanon's government has blamed the huge blast that... |
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Posted: 12/29/2023 5:36:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The number-one cause of Soviet nuclear submarine losses. Vodka? |
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Posted: 12/29/2023 5:38:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Vodka? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: The number-one cause of Soviet nuclear submarine losses. Vodka? Welding. |
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Posted: 12/29/2023 5:41:53 PM EDT
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Heading to Times Square now. Whichever semi the Texas sheriff's officers missed yesterday when they were tearing up an empty trailer...
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Posted: 12/29/2023 5:48:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: In all the videos I've seen of that explosion I'm always surprised that nobody seems to take cover from the incoming pressure wave. People are fucking clueless, especially in Beirut apparently To be fair, that thing goes from "There's a fire on the other side of town" to "I'm exploded" in about 2-3 seconds for most of them. |
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Posted: 12/29/2023 5:57:32 PM EDT
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Quoted: It is one of the few ultra large scale explosions filmed from multiple angles and also in an urban setting. At about 2 kilotons, this blast is still smaller than a smaller atomic blast like the Hiroshima bomb. (15-20 kilotons) but it gives us a taste of what a man portable nuclear device could do. (It is said that “Suitcase nukes” could have yields as high as 2-5 kilotons). To put into perspective the scale of even a 1 kiloton blast….that is almost 1000 MOABs. The first part of this is an angle I have not seen. The white building is just disintegrating right before the blast hits the camera. https://x.com/alphafox78/status/1740575037177188520?s=46&t=dWZPf-MKwVcPjAxwWYmM0A *ahem*  August 4 2020 Beirut port explosion compilation Moral of the story: STOP LOOKING OUT THE WINDOW AT EXPLOSIONS! 
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Posted: 12/29/2023 5:57:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What was the death toll? eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeWHAT??eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee |
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Posted: 12/29/2023 5:58:49 PM EDT
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Because F* YOUR EARDRUMS!!!! WHAT!!!!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE÷EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHH WHAT?!?!?!? MBMMMBMOOMBMABAMBMAMAMEMA.MMMM.MMM. WHAT? WHAT?
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Posted: 12/29/2023 6:00:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: In all the videos I've seen of that explosion I'm always surprised that nobody seems to take cover from the incoming pressure wave. People are fucking clueless, especially in Beirut apparently The average person probably doesn’t know what a pressure wave is. Only some of us lucky few have been around explosions. 
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Posted: 12/29/2023 6:03:44 PM EDT
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Forensic Architecture put together a 12 minute video based on documents, video, photos from inside the warehouse before it went up, etc.
There were other things in the warehouse that by modern safety standards, should not have been. Fireworks were the obvious, 5 rolls of slow det cord, tires, etc.  The Beirut Port Explosion (English) I would have dumped it in the Med, but they seemed to think there was some value in it, to keep it there. Jay |
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Posted: 12/29/2023 6:03:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The average person probably doesn’t know what a pressure wave is. Only some of us lucky few have been around explosions. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: In all the videos I've seen of that explosion I'm always surprised that nobody seems to take cover from the incoming pressure wave. People are fucking clueless, especially in Beirut apparently The average person probably doesn’t know what a pressure wave is. Only some of us lucky few have been around explosions. So in other words, you're saying you're braindamaged? 
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Posted: 12/29/2023 6:11:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Forensic Architecture put together a 12 minute video based on documents, video, photos from inside the warehouse before it went up, etc. There were other things in the warehouse that by modern safety standards, should not have been. Fireworks were the obvious, 5 rolls of slow det cord, tires, etc.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mQ60wNgKrQI would have dumped it in the Med, but they seemed to think there was some value in it, to keep it there. Jay Thanks, that was a fascinating video. They said only about HALF the bags went off?!?! Also, wow, that warehouse was like a bad looney tunes joke. "How can we possibly make this storage setup more wrong." |
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Posted: 12/29/2023 6:13:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: So in other words, you're saying you're braindamaged? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: In all the videos I've seen of that explosion I'm always surprised that nobody seems to take cover from the incoming pressure wave. People are fucking clueless, especially in Beirut apparently The average person probably doesn’t know what a pressure wave is. Only some of us lucky few have been around explosions. So in other words, you're saying you're braindamaged? I might be! Used to work at a chemical plant that made a product nicknamed “Load and Explode”. Management even admitted it was a pretty clever nickname. Fortunately we didn’t make it for very long since customers weren’t impressed with 55 gallon drums blowing up in their warehouses. |
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Posted: 12/29/2023 6:29:34 PM EDT
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that'll get your attention for sure
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Posted: 12/29/2023 7:21:29 PM EDT
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That blast is an example of a high order detonation.
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Posted: 12/29/2023 7:24:27 PM EDT
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That's an impressive compilation.
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Posted: 12/29/2023 7:46:11 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/29/2023 7:54:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: In all the videos I've seen of that explosion I'm always surprised that nobody seems to take cover from the incoming pressure wave. People are fucking clueless, especially in Beirut apparently In other words, 
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Posted: 12/29/2023 8:09:23 PM EDT
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I'm curious how it compared in magnitude to the Texas City explosion of the same type. 2100 metric tons of ammonium nitrate in that one in 1947.
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Posted: 12/29/2023 8:11:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm curious how it compared in magnitude to the Texas City explosion of the same type. 2100 metric tons of ammonium nitrate in that one in 1947. My mother felt, a good jolt, the Texas City one, over 20 miles away. |
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Posted: 12/29/2023 8:13:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: In all the videos I've seen of that explosion I'm always surprised that nobody seems to take cover from the incoming pressure wave. People are fucking clueless, especially in Beirut apparently Most people going around their daily business that have never been exposed to HE going off and seen a pressure wave would not know what they were even seeing until it was too late. |
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Posted: 12/29/2023 8:22:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The people in Beirut are clueless? How much money, time and effort did the US spend to get the message through to our population about the need to drop and take cover during the Cold War? And, how many, today, would have the reaction to do so? Pffffft. Saw a documentary where a guy on a motorcycle outran a small nuclear explosion:  Chain Reaction (1/3) Movie CLIP - Outrunning the Explosion (1996) HD |
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Posted: 12/29/2023 8:29:33 PM EDT
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I think the one in beirut was 2,700
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Posted: 12/29/2023 8:51:40 PM EDT
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Thankfully it was ANFO like e.g. ~ 3000m/s rather than PETN like ~ 9000m/s. The tell for ANFO like explosives is the orange cloud of NOx gas.
Theres a good read on it here NIH paper on Beirut incident. |
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