Apparently a fireworks factory blew up? Man, my thoughts go out to those people.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xg87yd/footage-shows-massive-explosion-sending-a-mushroom-cloud-over-beirut?utm_content=1596557258&utm_medium=social&utm_source=VICE_twitter

That's very bad news. Hope everyone is okay.

https://twitter.com/borzou/status/1290675854767513600

https://twitter.com/nickgeifman/status/1290682826929721345


look like some movie shit
https://twitter.com/Intel_Sky/status/1290670649527148545?s=20

explosions.

i've never even seen a single conventional military weapon create an explosion like that.

that shit looked like tiny nuclear bomb went off.

prayers up to the people there.

https://twitter.com/i/events/1290676374433234945

who knows what kind of biological threat that could pose to people and the environment.

:(

lol

Probably was much more sinister: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS1E5upLv0g&feature=emb_logo


Looked like fireworks (or electrical sparks) at first, but that big explosion wasn't from fireworks.

cant see twitter so i appreciate the youtube link

https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2020/aug/04/beirut-explosion-footage-shows-massive-blast-shaking-lebanons-capital-video

That was ammo.

https://streamable.com/nscx9m
https://streamable.com/mcy82f


Went down a rabbit hole years ago w/ mini-me watching explosion videos (he's into science). Had me shook, lol.

https://youtu.be/RKBLW91Z_3s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP3bcPvgIG8

if I witness some shit like that I'd have PTSD/Nightmares for a few years

https://twitter.com/ASE/status/1290684524620283904?s=20

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1290689260744515586?s=20

I don't even have the sound on but that huge cloud of red smoke....wow. Just wow.

but it's looking like all of the hunger, neglect, and political firestorming by israel and other countries has led to systemic failures which would allow an accident like this.

people are being turned away from hospitals because the hospitals are either full or damaged

this is going to throw lebanon into a free fall

there's also reason to be suspicious, and to wait for an actual investigation before pretending to know what this actually was.

Most people would rather this be a tragic accident than something malicious that sparks violence. It's scary real life shit.

and were ignored for several years. At least according to Dutch news sources. But maybe the explosion experts on this board know better.

Ammonium nitrate apparently has been the cause of several huge accidents over the past century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium_nitrate_disasters

I guess the folks responsible for the AN in Beirut either didn't know or didn't care.

Terrible event, I hope they somehow pull through without it setting off more trouble than they already have over there.

That explosion was serious af

Possibly.

and the fireworks got into the fertilizer

https://twitter.com/tobiaschneider/status/1290703188094529539

now say it might have been munitions

says munitions of some kind

the sparks looks like it was chemicals and electrical

idk what happened, but have you ever looked at pictures of an exploded fireworks factory?

it looks like a fuckin bombhit because that's what happened.

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

never had a shockwave like that tho.

that caused the explosion.
At least that’s the official story.

both military and non-military.

the biggest american conventional bomb. a factory that made ROCKET fuel. etc.

that is the biggest non-nuclear explosion i've ever seen outside of maybe a volcanic eruption (if you wanna count that as an explosion).

i'm not even surprised seeing some of these aftermath photos.

i feel for the citizens there. they are already in a tough spot due to a whole list of factors, including dealing w/ hunger issues. that huge building that's (to my surprise, actually) still standing next to the explosion site is the countries largest grain elevator from what i've seen reported. it's standing, but yes it's still destroyed.

:(

the videos look like something out of a movie


https://twitter.com/thestevennabil/status/1290745265012396033

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

must have been there vs. what Tim McVeigh used in Oklahoma City with just my guess.

then i saw this:

https://twitter.com/AymanM/status/1290765327400411141

if true about what it was that exploded, that explosion makes sense.

edit: i saw another tweet that i'll take at its word since i have no clue how to actually measure explosions that said if it was that much ammonium nitrate that this would actually be just a bit bigger then a ONE megaton nuclear explosion which would explain, at least to me, the nuclear-like appearance of the explosion (white cloud of steam where the heat instantly evaporates the water in the air, shock wave that follows).

That shit was terrifying.

What an awful awful situation

some time before a real number is actually know

Could increase too.

I'll wait for more info

it doesn't even matter what he says at this point, that shit could be true and we'd still double check

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

you gotta fact check anything he says.

but dude's like "MAGA_LibCrusher_Jeff_1972 is saying this is likely an attack. VERY interesting!"

to go under the microscope, everybody lies.

let's not do whataboutism when it comes to Trump, okay?

but that's what they do... the explosion does look abnormal.

but they never think hes lying to *them*.

they never have any actual reason, but if pressed it will be something silly like first he told us not to wear masks, now he's telling us to wear masks. Which is it? ITS SO CONFUSING

really, this is the guy who is somehow secretly evil but you think Trump is looking out for you?

fuckin world is upside down, man.

former job, used to support federal agency heads.

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Before:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.902257,35.5168597,959m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m3!15m2!1m1!1s%2Fg%2F11jq0bjlz7

I expected.

hard to grasp the full size of it because it's been filled in by the sea, but it's that arc of land near the grain elevator (so just start drawing a circle from there). i'm guessing that's AT LEAST the size of Cowboys Stadium?

i mean, people said they felt and heard it in Cyprus which is 150 miles across the water.

unreal devastation to a place that its already going through a bunch of tough things. :(

https://twitter.com/MikeLeslieWFAA/status/1291014077322534912

crazy how fast the blast is even in slow mo.

to a Blockbuster action movie

I feel bad for continuously watching these since people actually died/got injured but this is so damned fascinating

Timothy McVeigh used 2 tons to do damage in Oaklahoma.

This blast used 2700 tons.

Also in the blast was a grain storage unit and grain. Grain explosions are a thing but its not clear yet if grain helped the boom.

Beirut also has a food shortage so this blast killed 85% of their grain supply as well as making the wheat stored their totally inedible.

THIS? This did not have to happen. Gov officials knew of/about the location of the ammonium nitrate for 6 fucking years. It was abandoned. It's crazy that this blast sits opposite of the food shortage because ammonium nitrate is a key ingredient in farming.

You want to know whats crazy though? This blast was big but also tame compared to historical ammonium nitrate related explosions. The biggest one happened in the US - 1947 Texas City Disaster 580+ people dead.

Recent examples -

Tianjin 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv5g2MhPT5I

West Texas 2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzDC3iKbTzY

Ryongchon disaster 2004: 168 dead


This shit is Wu-Tang.

I was about to boo that shit and then it hit. His daughter wasn’t fucking around.

“Get out of here dad!!! Go now!!”

>I was about to boo that shit and then it hit. His daughter
>wasn’t fucking around.
>
>“Get out of here dad!!! Go now!!”

crazy sh*t

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/beirut-explosion-was-six-years-making-hit-country-its-knees-n1236019

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-documents-excl/exclusive-lebanons-leaders-warned-in-july-about-explosives-at-port-documents-idUSKCN2562L7

that only stopped to try and take on more cargo

was deemed unseaworthy

sank a couple of years after that

was just sitting around for six years while customs wrote letters to whoever to try to get it taken away

then they tried to fix a hole in the wall, caused a fire that spread to fireworks being stored in the same building and blew the whole shit up


www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at