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Explosion video here from three points of view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93tV6-0Ugwk The Guardian updated feed: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/aug/04/beirut-explosion-huge-blast-port-lebanon-capital quote:Beirut explosion: more than 50 dead and 2,750 wounded, says Lebanon health ministry – live updates mallratcal posted:https://twitter.com/umashankarsingh/status/1290683113224327168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw quote:23m ago Picture source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/huge-explosion-rocks-lebanon-capital-beirut-live-updates-200804163620414.html https://twitter.com/tobiaschneider/status/1290703188094529539 Video of aftermath: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHutJwAnAZo https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/lebanon-beirut-explosion-live-updates-dle-intl/index.html quote:38 min ago Helical Nightmares fucked around with this message at 21:55 on Aug 4, 2020 |
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 16:32 |
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Sorry, beans for lunch.
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 21:30 |
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Christ though that's terrifying. Explosions are way too slow and quiet in movies.
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 21:31 |
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Helical Nightmares posted:Some news sites are claiming that the Beirut state run media is saying the explosion was from a bunch of stored fireworks. https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1290698269421600770?s=20 You could see what looked like fireworks going off before the big explosion so it could have been started by that.
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 21:32 |
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I heard allegedly it was a grain elevator / Silo explosion that caused the first explosion, then that had basically set fire to the port district which promptly caused the stored explosives to blow up.
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 21:32 |
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They'll never find the big cache of explosives, we put it next door to the PM. ... Brilliant!
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 21:33 |
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God drat that was big. Stored fireworks my rear end
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 21:36 |
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More video from twitter. https://twitter.com/FadyRoumieh/status/1290670721488900096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/FadyRoumieh/status/1290669185715118086?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 21:36 |
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Helical Nightmares posted:Some news sites are claiming that the Beirut state run media is saying the explosion was from a bunch of stored fireworks. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 21:36 |
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Mozi posted:https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1290698269421600770?s=20 I have heard some news agencies say that they analyzed the explosion footage and you could see flares of light going off in the black cloud. They claim that could be the fireworks. However: https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/lebanon-beirut-explosion-live-updates-dle-intl/h_e6713bdae252e2feee83a4e3263c09ac quote:3 hr 3 min ago
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 21:37 |
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 21:40 |
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that shockwave is loving scary lmao
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 21:43 |
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From my friend in Beirut: I live 6.5 KM away from where the explosion happened at fireworks warehouse at the Beirut harbor. Apparently it was an accident. The explosion as you can see from the videos in the partage group was huge.. I was in my kitchen and felt the explosion then the shortwave.. the entire building shook and things started flying around in the kitchen... sharp objects too but they missed me... it was surreal and very reminiscent of the war when in the same place a giant gas container back in the late 80's also blew up... I went out to the balcony where my mom was and got her to go in and people where in panic mode on the streets... I am glad it was an accident and not a terrorist act or an act of war beacuse then the repercussions would have been far worse... any way... We are safe and sound and that is all that counts for now.... and I can't but make parallels with Lac Megantic Next day edit: turns out he actually lives 7.5km away, lying bastard!! Bronze Fonz fucked around with this message at 22:19 on Aug 5, 2020 |
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Helical Nightmares posted:I have heard some news agencies say that they analyzed the explosion footage and you could see flares of light going off in the black cloud. They claim that could be the fireworks. https://twitter.com/umashankarsingh/status/1290683113224327168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw You can see a lot of small explosions in this video. So they may have had fireworks stored there but not enough to flatten the port.
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 21:44 |
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mallratcal posted:You can see a lot of small explosions in this video. So they may have had fireworks stored there but not enough to flatten the port. Yeah that's good footage of the flashes, and the secondary explosion in general. Any footage of the initial blast? Can't seem to find that but I'd imagine it would be difficult to catch.
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 21:47 |
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The world is run by absolute idiots. That was dynamite.
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 21:53 |
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gently caress, no way the death toll isn't in the thousands
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 21:57 |
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So from the documentary I watched about the oklahoma bombing in order for amnonium nitrate to explode it needs to be mixed perfectly with a fuel as it is only an oxidizer. For them to confiscate 2700 tons of explosive mixture at once and it not make the news is weird.
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 22:01 |
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Helical Nightmares posted:Yeah that's good footage of the flashes, and the secondary explosion in general. Yeah, we'll probably have to wait and see if any security cam footage exists/hasn't been destroyed.
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 22:04 |
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Fallows posted:So from the documentary I watched about the oklahoma bombing in order for amnonium nitrate to explode it needs to be mixed perfectly with a fuel as it is only an oxidizer. For them to confiscate 2700 tons of explosive mixture at once and it not make the news is weird.
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 22:05 |
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The wild thing is the red cloud is all the stuff that didn't blow up
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 22:08 |
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that's a big loving boom. i don't think even the Texas city one was that bad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzDC3iKbTzY it's telling that there are multiple Texas City explosions
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 22:08 |
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https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/lebanon-beirut-explosion-live-updates-dle-intl/index.htmlquote:
Also death toll has risen at the moment to at least 73. Edit: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/huge-explosion-rocks-lebanon-capital-beirut-live-updates-200804163620414.html quote:21:11 GMT - 'Unacceptable' that 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored without safety measures: President Aoun Helical Nightmares fucked around with this message at 22:18 on Aug 4, 2020 |
# ? Aug 4, 2020 22:15 |
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I suspect at least some of the people involved were, in fact, already punished very harshly
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 22:40 |
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Stunt_enby posted:lol gently caress off with this "stored fireworks" is code for israel
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 22:44 |
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Stolen from the OSHA thread. You can see the fireworks or whatever they are a lot better. Hope that dude is ok. https://mobile.twitter.com/SVNewsAl...ingawful.com%2F
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 22:46 |
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Jesus Christ. If my super-lovely napkin math is right, that much ammonium nitrate going up at once is roughly a 1.2 kiloton explosion.
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 22:57 |
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The Cubelodyte posted:Jesus Christ. If my super-lovely napkin math is right, that much ammonium nitrate going up at once is roughly a 1.2 kiloton explosion. ya they even got a video of it
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 22:59 |
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So they stored 1750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate next to (or possibly with) a warehouse full of fireworks.pop fly to McGillicutty posted:The world is run by absolute idiots.
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 23:02 |
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The Voice of Labor posted:"stored fireworks" is code for israel That would be pretty amateurish for Israel, I’d expect them to target an oil plant, power plant or missile silo.
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 23:03 |
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it's spelled Beirut, op
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 23:06 |
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I read it was like 2,800 tons of ammonium nitrate. Either way, loving hell. The final death toll is sure to be in the hundreds at least.
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 23:06 |
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Fruits of the sea posted:That would be pretty amateurish for Israel, I’d expect them to target an oil plant, power plant or missile silo. targeting a grain silo seems like it would lead to a lot of direct suffering
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 23:12 |
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2020 is a real Akira movie right now.
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 23:15 |
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Corroborating the "it's been there for years being dangerous" bit of the story: Crew kept hostages on a floating bomb – m/v Rhosus, Beirut
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 23:16 |
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Fallows posted:So from the documentary I watched about the oklahoma bombing in order for amnonium nitrate to explode it needs to be mixed perfectly with a fuel as it is only an oxidizer. For them to confiscate 2700 tons of explosive mixture at once and it not make the news is weird. Nope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium_nitrate_disasters
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 23:34 |
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Hey, guess which person who's opinion you really don't wanna know about this has just weighed in on this? https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1290775977895895040
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 23:43 |
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https://twitter.com/HamdiAlkhshali/status/1290763867178569728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 23:44 |
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this is falawful
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 23:48 |
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The Beirut explosion is already on that page. I looked, and it seems like it was added 2 hours after the explosion, unless I'm getting time zones wrong (which I probably am). I was expecting it to be a matter of minutes with how obsessive Wikipedia people are.
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