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  • Start date Aug 4, 2020
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djr8369

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  • Aug 4, 2020
  • #36
Lots of idiots on twitter saying it’s a nuclear blast. It’s just a case study on why we have health and safety standards lots of regulation.
 
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wingy

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  • Aug 4, 2020
  • #37
djr8369 said:
Lots of idiots on twitter saying it’s a nuclear blast. It’s just a case study on why we have health and safety standards lots of regulation.
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They haven't even had chance to establish anything yet .
That best and last footage doesn't capture the start.
Not long after admittedly .
Understandable speculation I suppose given the history and geography.
 

Evo1883

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  • Aug 4, 2020
  • #38
djr8369 said:
Lots of idiots on twitter saying it’s a nuclear blast. It’s just a case study on why we have health and safety standards lots of regulation.
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If it was nuclear they'd have alot more to worry about over there right now
 

mark82

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  • Aug 4, 2020
  • #39
Evo1883 said:
If it was nuclear they'd have alot more to worry about over there right now
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Also would've been much bigger.
 
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Nick

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  • Aug 4, 2020
  • #40
Got an alert on my phone saying at least 25 dead. If it's anywhere close to that low it will be a miracle.
 

fernandopartridge

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  • Aug 4, 2020
  • #41
Tommo1993 said:
People posting aftermaths, looks like a full on war zone.
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"it's like bloody Beirut round there"
 
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Evo1883

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  • Aug 4, 2020
  • #42
Nick said:
Got an alert on my phone saying at least 25 dead. If it's anywhere close to that low it will be a miracle.
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2500 injured or in hospital so I'd expect a big rise

People also trapped still
 

Nick

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  • Aug 4, 2020
  • #43
fernandopartridge said:
"it's like bloody Beirut round there"
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Sick fucker.
 

Evo1883

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  • Aug 4, 2020
  • #44
I'm not sure the governer saying it reminded him of hiroshima(a bomb that killed 80,000 on impact) was needed.. As it's absolutely nothing alike
 

Tommo1993

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  • Aug 4, 2020
  • #45
Evo1883 said:
I'm not sure the governer saying it reminded him of hiroshima(a bomb that killed 80,000 on impact) was needed.. As it's absolutely nothing alike
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People love drama don’t they.
 

Skybluefaz

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  • Aug 4, 2020
  • #46
Sickening to watch, can't help but watch the videos though.
 
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Deleted member 5849

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  • Aug 4, 2020
  • #47
Evo1883 said:
If it was nuclear they'd have alot more to worry about over there right now
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So would we!
 

Earlsdon_Skyblue1

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  • Aug 4, 2020
  • #48
Some of the footage is mad. Reminded me of the twin towers a bit some of the close up ones.

Wouldn't surprise me if it was deliberate with all the shit going on round there recently.

Don't want to see the injured figures, could be huge.
 

Frank Sidebottom

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 4, 2020
  • #49
About 2700 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored in a warehouse for 6 years caught fire.

2 tonnes of ammonium nitrate was used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing which killed 168 and destroyed or damaged buildings in a 16 block radius.
 
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skybluetony176

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  • Aug 4, 2020
  • #50
Just awful

 
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wingy

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  • Aug 4, 2020
  • #51
You can see why some may have thought Nuclear from the footage from different vantage points
Huge white domed shockwave.
 

hill83

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  • Aug 5, 2020
  • #52
Can't believe how big the explosion was. All the footage of stuff like this we get now. Imagine if 9/11 was happened these days how much footage we would have.
 
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wingy

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  • Aug 5, 2020
  • #53
hill83 said:
Can't believe how big the explosion was. All the footage of stuff like this we get now. Imagine if 9/11 was happened these days how much footage we would have.
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There's a bit missing that would put the locals minds at rest
And that's footage of the initial start of the first explosion

Something expert's will analyse , might come from a fixed security camera on sabuilding.
Until something like that is available conspiracies.will remain
 

David O'Day

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  • Aug 5, 2020
  • #54
wingy said:
There's a bit missing that would put the locals minds at rest
And that's footage of the initial start of the first explosion

Something expert's will analyse , might come from a fixed security camera on sabuilding.
Until something like that is available conspiracies.will remain
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Reports say it was a fire not an explosion at first.

Governor of Beirut was talking about a number of firefighters who were at the site fighting the fire when it exploded
 

Johnnythespider

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 5, 2020
  • #55
Just had a chap on bbc news, he said following a similar explosion in France in 2001 a study was carried out here to look at how much amonia nitrate could be stored safely on farms and the like, he also said that it needs to come into contact with a fuel oil and an ignition source, plenty of that in a port i should think.
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Aug 5, 2020
  • #56
Mad to think something like that could be caused by somebody welding.
 

Johnnythespider

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 5, 2020
  • #57
Just found this, think i remember it vaguely.

AIChE Academy

www.aiche.org
 

dutchman

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 6, 2020
  • #58
mark82 said:
Also would've been much bigger.
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Not necessarily. Some nukes have a yield as little as half a kiloton which is also what you would expect from a home-made terrorist device (which this clearly wasn't).
 
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wingy

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 7, 2020
  • #59
Can't help but feel for the people here,seeing them give their accounts on TV

However being flippant here and wishing no harm to anyone

Looking at the many news segments today I think they may have been wiser to transfer it all into the Silo's and the grain into the warehouses,which are still just about standing.
Of course they may have set off for the moon or Mars.
Or been blown up due to the politics of the region.
 

dutchman

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 9, 2020
  • #60
There were TWO distinct explosions that I could tell. The first looked like fireworks going off followed by a raging fireball then the big explosion.

 
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