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Phanatic posted:Ammonium nitrate on its own will happily decompose into N2, O2, and water vapor.
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SpaceCadetBob posted:Normally, id say fake. But well its 2020.
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https://twitter.com/UpdatesLebanese/status/1290791626437201920 Know when to read the room, dude.
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:https://i.imgur.com/XvdocLm.mp4 Wow, that looks like an action movie or something
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The Glumslinger posted:Wow, that looks like an action movie or something
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I keep seeing this tweet. I'd assume the warehouse full of ammonium nitrate would have a couple more windows broken out after the explosion if it was actually the same building
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Pissed Ape Sexist posted:I keep seeing this tweet. I'd assume the warehouse full of ammonium nitrate would have a couple more windows broken out after the explosion if it was actually the same building Since there is literally no more warehouse, I'd assume this was from the rooftop video before the first explosion when it was just on fire.
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Pissed Ape Sexist posted:I keep seeing this tweet. I'd assume the warehouse full of ammonium nitrate would have a couple more windows broken out after the explosion if it was actually the same building What makes you think either of those images are from "after the explosion"?
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Ammonium nitrate is famous for turning back time after exploding because tachyons.
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Jabor posted:What makes you think either of those images are from "after the explosion"? Yeah this is also like the second person who's posted something like this. I really don't understand the thought process behind "what, it CAN'T be a picture of the warehouse, only a couple windows are broken!" If you look at any of the aftermath shots, you would realize that everything in that picture, except for the people hopefully, is now reduced to a fine mist, nay, film, of atoms, and perhaps, just perhaps, these pictures were taken by someone before the events of today and reposted when said someone realized that it was a picture of the same warehouse that blew up.
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PirateDentist posted:Since there is literally no more warehouse, I'd assume this was from the rooftop video before the first explosion when it was just on fire. You're absolutely right and I mixed up clips in my head, oops! Super Soaker Party! posted:Yeah this is also like the second person who's posted something like this. I really don't understand the thought process behind "what, it CAN'T be a picture of the warehouse, only a couple windows are broken!" ...or perhaps, just perhaps, it's a still from a video three seconds before the explosion but gently caress idiots like me, right? After seeing twenty different angles and scores more photos of the event I thoroughly apologize for temporally misplacing a still image of a smoking warehouse. Don't be a snarky gently caress. Pissed Ape Sexist fucked around with this message at 08:22 on Aug 5, 2020 |
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KoRMaK posted:it has the steady cam and franctic moving of playing battlefield or warezone The cheesy start of it being a happy bride is straight out of Call of Duty, though she wouldn't survive their cut scene.
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Looking at the epicentre there, it seems they are very lucky that the warehouses were on the docks themselves and not a few hundred yards further inland.
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Got to be an easier way to make popcorn in bulk.
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Moo the cow posted:Looking at the epicentre there, it seems they are very lucky that the warehouses were on the docks themselves and not a few hundred yards further inland. Also that the silos were there to tank the blast for buildings in that direction.
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Collateral Damage posted:"Things that suddenly want to turn back into elemental nitrogen." And on the plus side, it was very VERY poorly contained, which prevents it from more completely converting the hateful, vengeful nitrogen atoms into N2 again. The big rusty purple/brown cloud is nitrogen dioxide, which very happily bonds with water to form nitric acid, which basically eats anything, including the delicate meats in your lungs. It's also the main byproduct when ANFO is detonated without sufficient containment, which trades ka-blooie in for acid flavored poison gas. There were a lot of videos from the Syrian conflict where car bombs and roadside bombs made a moderate ka-bang and a gently caress-huge brown cloud of poison gas. This thing showed up on the underground nuke testing seismograph systems. Fractional KILOTON detonation, and not some lovely 1/200th kinda fraction, like one third to one half of one kiloton. Impressive in scope and scale, and completely horrifying knowing it went off basically adjacent to a city. Those silos are the only reason half those buildings aren't halfway turned to rubble right now. Methylethylaldehyde fucked around with this message at 10:34 on Aug 5, 2020 |
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:Those silos are the only reason half those buildings aren't halfway turned to rubble right now. I was going to say, whoever designed those silos deserves some kind of design award. They're hosed up but still standing. Maybe grain is good at absorbing explosive impact. How much grain would I need to buy to fill my walls with, in readiment for the coming nuclear apocolypse?
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It's not that grain is supremely good or something, more that it was a solid block of concrete and other dense material several meters thick. (As opposed to a regular building, which would have thin walls and be filled with a whole lotta air). And it still got halfway vaporised.
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Olewithmilk posted:I was going to say, whoever designed those silos deserves some kind of design award. They're hosed up but still standing. Maybe grain is good at absorbing explosive impact. How much grain would I need to buy to fill my walls with, in readiment for the coming nuclear apocolypse? Grain is flammable and attracts vermin, a real nuke would also have set fire to the city in addition to smashing it flat. I'd use a high water content grain, perhaps one that was previously used, in say, the beer brewing process. Most breweries give it away for free, so if you have a truck with a big tub in the back, you could fill your walls with spent grain. As a bonus, the smell would be so godawful that no looters would try to see what's inside, since about three square blocks will smell like hot carnival puke. Edit: Also, that *was* the strategic grain reserve for the entire country, which was already experiencing food shortages and inflation. This nitrate powered kick in the balls is gonna gently caress them over for a LONG time.
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Jabor posted:It's not that grain is supremely good or something, more that it was a solid block of concrete and other dense material several meters thick. (As opposed to a regular building, which would have thin walls and be filled with a whole lotta air). It's too late, I have bought several tonnes of grain. Methylethylaldehyde posted:Grain is flammable and attracts vermin, a real nuke would also have set fire to the city in addition to smashing it flat. I'd use a high water content grain, perhaps one that was previously used, in say, the beer brewing process. Most breweries give it away for free, so if you have a truck with a big tub in the back, you could fill your walls with spent grain. As a bonus, the smell would be so godawful that no looters would try to see what's inside, since about three square blocks will smell like hot carnival puke. A couple of weeks ago, a bucket in our shed starting smelling like absolute death and was spreading into the house and garden. I was sure a rat had died in it. I poured bleach into it, and started taking out the contents. It was full of rancid water that had leaked in and a bag of seeds, JUST seeds. I had no idea plant matter could smell that bad. What I'm saying is, your idea is sound.
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Olewithmilk posted:It's too late, I have bought several tonnes of grain. Use it to brew beer, then line your walls with it!
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:Use it to brew beer, then line your walls with it! That will take too long, I'm just going to fill the walls with warm water, hops, yeast, and grain and let nature take it's course.
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Olewithmilk posted:That will take too long, I'm just going to fill the walls with warm water, hops, yeast, and grain and let nature take it's course. Beer with used razorblades in it? No thanks.
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Moo the cow posted:Beer with used razorblades in it? No thanks. Less a razor ale, and more a robust drywall stout.
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View from the crater, it's a very big hole: https://twitter.com/aldin_ww/status/1290965624093630464 https://twitter.com/Nrg8000/status/1290965684160094208 Brown Moses fucked around with this message at 12:04 on Aug 5, 2020 |
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Moo the cow posted:The cheesy start of it being a happy bride is straight out of Call of Duty, though she wouldn't survive their cut scene. To be fair, this is a risk for anyone in a wedding dress within 500 miles of a US drone.
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quote:The crater is submerged to a diameter of 140m. Wow. The water at the quay was previously seven metres deep. It’s a deep water port now. Mozi posted:diameter, not depth Weird way to phrase that, but that does seem more plausible. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 14:18 on Aug 5, 2020 |
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diameter, not depth https://twitter.com/Elie___Azzi/status/1290920980630712320?s=20 a video from early on in the initial fire
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Sooooo, I'm guessing the container ship....literally vaporized? Or is there a twisted steel frame down at the bottom of that crater along with all the other wreckage that's what's left of the ship?
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Mozi posted:diameter, not depth It's really weird seeing video from a place that doesn't exist anymore
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