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Old 08-04-2020, 12:33 PM   #21
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After the explosion.
That's absolutely horrific.
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Old 08-04-2020, 12:39 PM   #22
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That's just horrific looking. I'm nowhere near a physicist, but that explosion doesn't actually come from fireworks, right?
Apparently there was a chemical or ammo dump next door that had a massive amount of confiscated sodium nitrate stored there for the last year.
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I saw a comment on Twitter that Harari was just shown on TV and he is fine.
My fault for the misspelling, but I was referring to Hariri (Thank you Q), who was assassinated in 2005:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assass...f_Rafic_Hariri
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Old 08-04-2020, 01:28 PM   #25
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BBC reporting dozens dead and thousands injured. I suspect the death rate could jump dramatically when this is all assessed. What a tragedy.
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Old 08-04-2020, 01:51 PM   #26
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What would cause that mushroom cloud? Is it just air compressing and condensing?

What an awful tragedy. Would this be similar to the Halifax explosion?
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https://twitter.com/user/status/1290698269421600770

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Old 08-04-2020, 02:00 PM   #28
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What would cause that mushroom cloud? Is it just air compressing and condensing?

What an awful tragedy. Would this be similar to the Halifax explosion?
Yes it is condensation due to the shockwave. Typical of a “detonation”, which means the flame front is moving faster than the speed of sound.
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Storing two types of dangerous explosives in the same location, all in the middle of the biggest city in the country, in a highly volatile region, while the country goes through economic and social hell..... Just wow

Whoever made that decision needs to be arrested and tried for treason. This is absolutely insane.
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What would cause that mushroom cloud? Is it just air compressing and condensing?

What an awful tragedy. Would this be similar to the Halifax explosion?
Thread about that here:

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What would cause that mushroom cloud? Is it just air compressing and condensing?

What an awful tragedy. Would this be similar to the Halifax explosion?
Not that it's a contest, but the Halifax explosion was likely far worse. The Halifax explosion, despite occurring in a less populated area, left 2000 dead and destroyed 100s of acres of the city. The Halifax explosion also set a significant portion of the city on fire.

Once again, tragedies aren't contests, but the Halifax explosion was a magnitude larger than this.
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Not that it's a contest, but the Halifax explosion was likely far worse. The Halifax explosion, despite occurring in a less populated area, left 2000 dead and destroyed 100s of acres of the city. The Halifax explosion also set a significant portion of the city on fire.

Once again, tragedies aren't contests, but the Halifax explosion was a magnitude larger than this.
The Tianjin explosion, which was larger than this, was 8.5 times smaller than Halifax. There'd be so many dead twitter users if they were in Halifax.

For reference, Halifax was 7 times less than Hiroshima, which was a ridiculously low fission rate bomb. People out there saying this looks nuclear are being silly. If it was a nuclear bomb, we'd be getting aftermath videos, not videos from people on their balconies.
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That is one of the most awful things I've ever seen. Just tragic.
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That is one of the most awful things I've ever seen. Just tragic.
But it might not be the worst Beirut has seen.
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Yeah, very tough history there.
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Wow. Thoughts are with the people there. Very scary and extremely sad.

Looked like a straight up nuke.
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The Tianjin explosion, which was larger than this, was 8.5 times smaller than Halifax. There'd be so many dead twitter users if they were in Halifax.
Not much has changed. A major source of injury in Halifax was people looking through glass windows at the fire, assuming they were protected, only to have the shockwave from the resulting explosion blind them by blowing shards of glass into their eyes and face.

Many sources state that the Halifax explosion may have been the biggest non-purposeful non-nuclear explosion ever. It's weird we don't learn more about it.
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Really good radio talking about the Halifax blast





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Old 08-04-2020, 03:38 PM   #40
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Any idea on what blew up? Tianjin was ammonium nitrate if I remember correctly. This looks similar.
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