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  • 89th8 Offline
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    For the Family Guy fans, my first reaction was "Woah. Did anyone else feel that?"

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      I heard it was a fireworks truck parked next to an ammonium nitrate storage tank?

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      • 89th8 89th

        I heard it was a fireworks truck parked next to an ammonium nitrate storage tank?

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        @89th said in Explosions in Beirut:

        I heard it was a fireworks truck parked next to an ammonium nitrate storage tank?

        With roadrunner bait leading up to it.

        Education is extremely important.

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          @Horace said in Explosions in Beirut:

          With roadrunner bait leading up to it.

          LOL.

          Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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          • 89th8 Offline
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            Someone near that dock 1 second before the blast, “Could 2020 get any worse?”

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              Windows were blown out of buildings 10 KILOMETERS away.

              "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

              The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                Fox: "The health minister said at least 50 people were killed and over 2,700 were injured."

                Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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                • 89th8 Offline
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                  It was heard from 180 miles away, north of Cyprus

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                    I don't know how accurate these calculations are, but somebody estimated that the blast of the supposed 2700 tons of ammonium nitrate correspond to around 1 kiloton of TNT. Hiroshima was around 16 kilotons. More modern atomic bombs can easily exceed 20 megatons. If one kiloton does this, I'd really prefer to not be anywhere near an exploding atomic bomb (ok, not a very surprising thought, but that blast gives you an appreciation of what a megaton TNT must be like.

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                      You know, sometimes it's best to put the cell phone down...

                      “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                      Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                        Wow!!!

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                        • KlausK Klaus

                          I don't know how accurate these calculations are, but somebody estimated that the blast of the supposed 2700 tons of ammonium nitrate correspond to around 1 kiloton of TNT. Hiroshima was around 16 kilotons. More modern atomic bombs can easily exceed 20 megatons. If one kiloton does this, I'd really prefer to not be anywhere near an exploding atomic bomb (ok, not a very surprising thought, but that blast gives you an appreciation of what a megaton TNT must be like.

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                          @Klaus said in Explosions in Beirut:

                          I don't know how accurate these calculations are, but somebody estimated that the blast of the supposed 2700 tons of ammonium nitrate correspond to around 1 kiloton of TNT. Hiroshima was around 16 kilotons. More modern atomic bombs can easily exceed 20 megatons. If one kiloton does this, I'd really prefer to not be anywhere near an exploding atomic bomb (ok, not a very surprising thought, but that blast gives you an appreciation of what a megaton TNT must be like.

                          No kidding! Here’s some quick stats, I think are accurate in terms of yield TNT (in tons) equivalent:

                          • MOAB (our largest non-nuke) = 11
                          • Beirut = 1,000
                          • Hiroshima = 16,000
                          • Current nukes = 600,000 to 2,200,000
                          • Larry’s head if Biden wins = 14,000,000
                          • Mt St Helens = 26,000,000
                          • Tsar Bomb = 50,000,000
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                          • 89th8 89th

                            @Klaus said in Explosions in Beirut:

                            I don't know how accurate these calculations are, but somebody estimated that the blast of the supposed 2700 tons of ammonium nitrate correspond to around 1 kiloton of TNT. Hiroshima was around 16 kilotons. More modern atomic bombs can easily exceed 20 megatons. If one kiloton does this, I'd really prefer to not be anywhere near an exploding atomic bomb (ok, not a very surprising thought, but that blast gives you an appreciation of what a megaton TNT must be like.

                            No kidding! Here’s some quick stats, I think are accurate in terms of yield TNT (in tons) equivalent:

                            • MOAB (our largest non-nuke) = 11
                            • Beirut = 1,000
                            • Hiroshima = 16,000
                            • Current nukes = 600,000 to 2,200,000
                            • Larry’s head if Biden wins = 14,000,000
                            • Mt St Helens = 26,000,000
                            • Tsar Bomb = 50,000,000
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                            @89th said in Explosions in Beirut:

                            Larry’s head if Biden wins = 14,000,000

                            😂 Too funny

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                              https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/i3sxwq/a_compilation_of_videos_showing_the_explosion_in/

                              Many videos coming out, this is a compilation.

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                                https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/i3ps5j/im_surprised_it_was_that_loud_after_all_that/

                                And this one. Look how loud it is, even if you’re “30 seconds away”. (Many miles)

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                                  Wow.

                                  Education is extremely important.

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                                  • 89th8 89th

                                    https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/i3ps5j/im_surprised_it_was_that_loud_after_all_that/

                                    And this one. Look how loud it is, even if you’re “30 seconds away”. (Many miles)

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                                    @89th said in Explosions in Beirut:

                                    Look how loud it is,

                                    Link to video

                                    Just sayin'

                                    Please love yourself.

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                                      Only non-witches get due process.

                                      • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                                        @jon-nyc Wow

                                        This was a terrible thing that happened, and I hesitate to say this, but I am glad that it was not terrorism.

                                        (At least so far it does not appear to be).

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                                          So far. Here's an explanation. Probably sadder than terrorism.

                                          https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/opinion/beirut-explosions.html

                                          “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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