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Big Beef City posted:I know that's what it was, it's just more that people are so used to Trump being such a colossal loving apeshit moron that they don't even bother. Literally rolling your eyes and saying "haha whatever." is considered such a valid response to a live reaction from the most powerful man on earth that it isn't even newsworthy. oh, yeah personally i still think this is all totally insane but there's not much i can do about it other than start drinking earlier in the day than is usually recommended
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My friend took a walk this morning on Hamra street about 8km (~5 miles) away from the blast and says there was broken glass everywhere.
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Well, at least the explosion put out the fire.
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LordArgh posted:maybe that's why They edited the smoke to appear orange later. to hide the fact that it was a bomb and make trump look foolish I'm hearing this from a lot of people, worth listening to.
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Snake Dance posted:I'm hearing this from a lot of people, worth listening to. Yes, “there are those that say.” gently caress off.
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sure okay posted:This one could almost work as a holy poo poo piiiiiss vid (sound on) https://i.imgur.com/EpxTCwW.mp4 I couldn't quite get it to line up correctly.
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Goddamn. I posted this earlier ITT but it was someone filming the camera's screen, you couldn't hear the audio. That loving sound: https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1291018682634829826
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drat heard about this yesterday such an unfortunate accident that just kept escalating. The shockwaves were kinda cool to watch honestly. https://twitter.com/DavidKenner/status/1290671038641123331
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The Cubelodyte posted:Yes, “there are those that say.” gently caress off. CIA plant spotted
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Bronze Fonz posted:Goddamn. It's crazy how the camera pans away and then pans back and all the windows are broken, like some sort of editing trick.
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all that grain that got cooked and then thrown into the water probably made a lot of fish very happy
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GolfHole posted:all that grain that got cooked and then thrown into the water probably made a lot of fish very happy the ones that didnt vaporize, at least
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Bronze Fonz posted:Goddamn. You can hear the air rushing out right before the explosion.
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The Walrus posted:I gotta say putting the ammonium nitrate next to the fireworks was poor planning, but then putting the strategic grain reserves next to that is really approaching 10 year old walrus playing Sim City levels. Swiss-cheese model, but instead it's just a big pipe.
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This one is pretty close.  First explosion at 1:11 big one at 1:45 https://twitter.com/mama_load/status/1291012335797231616
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neamp posted:This one is pretty close. The lack of screaming there is pretty eerie
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something about the social media point of view of this......tons of videos of a huge explosion that end right with the shockwave hitting, not a whole lotta videos after that is.....awful....
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neamp posted:This one is pretty close. Twitter comments say they died.
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yeaah the people uploading their videos to the internet all passed away
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Fartbox posted:yeaah the people uploading their videos to the internet all passed away What's a livestream?
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They say only like a 100 people died from it and I imagine most of those were people at the port. I doubt someone at that distance would die, I mean even the phone didn't break But maybe I'm just being naive
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113 confirmed dead so far. 4000+ injured. 300,000 homeless. The details are hardly set in stone at this point.
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:(sound on) Bless you
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TheRat posted:What's a livestream? Only half true, apparently.
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Fartbox posted:They say only like a 100 people died from it and I imagine most of those were people at the port. I doubt someone at that distance would die, I mean even the phone didn't break
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Universe Master posted:Twitter comments say they died. They got the sweet shot + viral though to its not all bad.
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TheRat posted:113 confirmed dead so far. 4000+ injured. 300,000 homeless. The details are hardly set in stone at this point. With the size of that explosion the number of dead is likely to remain uncertain and rising for a while. Likely weren't that many people living in the immediate area around the explosion, which was a harbor, warehouse area, though maybe still a number of workers (though at 6 PM local time, many were probably done for the day). If anyone wants a really old comparison, the Halifax explosion in 1917 killed 2000 people and more or less obliterated all buildings in an 800 meter radius.
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Zugzwang posted:iPhones are a lot hardier than the soft tissues in your lungs. gallagher_watermelon.gif
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Fartbox posted:They say only like a 100 people died from it and I imagine most of those were people at the port. I doubt someone at that distance would die, I mean even the phone didn't break We've had several videos in this thread already where it's been confirmed the cameraperson died, do you think that those videos where there's suddenly a haze of razor sharp glass confetti blowing around at approximately the speed of sound are ending well for those people? Do you just genuinely not understand how livestreaming apps work?
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Fartbox posted:yeaah the people uploading their videos to the internet all passed away Do you know people can livestream right?
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pop fly to McGillicutty posted:Do you know people can livestream right? its more "phones can continue to function, and livestream, despite the people who were holding them being fortunately dead very, very quickly and not suffering so much" like, I hope for their sakes, goddamn.
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food court bailiff posted:We've had several videos in this thread already where it's been confirmed the cameraperson died, do you think that those videos where there's suddenly a haze of razor sharp glass confetti blowing around at approximately the speed of sound are ending well for those people? Do you just genuinely not understand how livestreaming apps work? There haven't been "several" (one actually that I've seen) and I wouldn't count twitter comments as confirmation. You also seem to be overestimating how much glass is flying around and how lethal that is. Look at the wedding video that's been posted a few times. They're standing in an open square that is full of windows and you can see them survive and run away. I'm sure thousands are cut up but it's not some movie where crowds are just collapsing after being sliced to tiny pieces.
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ChesterJT posted:There haven't been "several" (one actually that I've seen) and I wouldn't count twitter comments as confirmation. You also seem to be overestimating how much glass is flying around and how lethal that is. Look at the wedding video that's been posted a few times. They're standing in an open square that is full of windows and you can see them survive and run away. I'm sure thousands are cut up but it's not some movie where crowds are just collapsing after being sliced to tiny pieces. Have you seen the videos people have posted from inside officers/apartment buildings? There's been a fuckton of glas and random debris flying around in non-healthy directions.
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My friend lives about 7.5 km away (said 6.5km earlier ITT, but he says 7.5km here) and poo poo was flying in his kitchen. I can't imagine how it was for the nearest residential buildings to that port. He did an interview with a Montreal radio station this morning here telling his story: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/962-...LUbNrXkDW9VdNdw
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i heard this explosion from like 20km away, and it was only a fraction of the size of the one in beirut https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_propane_explosion
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People heard the Beirut explosion 250km away in Cyprus.
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Hammerite posted:Yeah it's impossible to tell from recorded footage how loud it actually is. If you're within half a mile (say) of an explosion like that and you escape with light injuries, how severe is the damage to your hearing likely to be? HUH?
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