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 Re: Beirut goes boom
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08/05/20 01:42 PM
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How would that compare to a 'mother of all bombs'? I think a MOAB is like 20,000 lbs of high-explosive. This was possibly 5,400,000 lbs of ammonium nitrate, only a low-explosive (.42 of TNT**) , violently detonating due to high-heat exposure, same as the Texas city 1946 fertilizer explosion. so kinda think 20 thousand pounds of TNT -vs- 5 million pounds of black-powder! ** = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT_equivalent#Relative_effectiveness_factor
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Re: Beirut goes boom
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08/05/20 01:45 PM
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Reports coming in say the deaths were from COVID not from the explosion as once thought. Back to you Walter in the newsroom.......................
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Re: Beirut goes boom
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08/05/20 05:06 PM
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Reports coming in say the deaths were from COVID not from the explosion as once thought. Back to you Walter in the newsroom....................... 
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Re: Beirut goes boom
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08/05/20 05:21 PM
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"On a scale, this explosion is scaled down from a nuclear bomb rather than up from a conventional bomb," said Roland Alford, managing director of British explosive ordnance disposal firm Alford Technologies. "This is huge." https://news.trust.org/item/20200805135902-1g5wx
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Re: Beirut goes boom
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08/05/20 05:54 PM
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Re: Beirut goes boom
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Re: Beirut goes boom
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08/05/20 06:02 PM
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If GoogleEarth is accurate it's about a 3 acre hole.
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Re: Beirut goes boom
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08/05/20 06:06 PM
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Re: Beirut goes boom
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08/05/20 06:25 PM
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Re: Beirut goes boom
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08/05/20 07:08 PM
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Damn that was a big boom.
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Re: Beirut goes boom
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08/05/20 08:28 PM
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Re: Beirut goes boom
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08/05/20 10:20 PM
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Re: Beirut goes boom
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08/05/20 11:49 PM
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Re: Beirut goes boom
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08/06/20 12:05 AM
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Damn that was a big boom. Big a boom.
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Re: Beirut goes boom
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08/06/20 01:43 AM
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it wasnt no firework thats for sure. Likely black hat munitions
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Re: Beirut goes boom
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08/06/20 02:14 AM
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same days Barack Hussein Obama II (/bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/ (About this soundlisten);[1] born August 4
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Re: Beirut goes boom
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08/06/20 11:56 AM
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Some of the videos of the explosion are insane. I expect death tolls to continue to rise significantly in the coming days as they clear rubble.
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Re: Beirut goes boom
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08/06/20 12:48 PM
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Some of the videos of the explosion are insane. I expect death tolls to continue to rise significantly in the coming days as they clear rubble. I think they will need an eye dropper and a sponge to find some of them.
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Re: Beirut goes boom
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08/06/20 12:50 PM
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Re: Beirut goes boom
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08/06/20 01:04 PM
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same days Barack Hussein Obama II (/bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/ (About this soundlisten);[1] born August 4 
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Re: Beirut goes boom
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08/06/20 01:32 PM
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x2 I wonder what was stored in those tall silos right next to the 'crater' ? - looks like sides blown off facing blast, and 'something' piled up there. Coulda been quite a 'secondary blast' if that had been corn/wheat/grain ?? EDIT - whoa - after googling 'Beirut silos' I find that IS actually grain silos - 120,000 metric tons of grain!- guess they're quite lucky in one way it didn't detonate, there would be no city left!!! - but very unlucky in another way as news reports that is 85% of their grain.:( - prayers up!
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Re: Beirut goes boom
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08/06/20 01:43 PM
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it wasnt no firework thats for sure. Likely black hat munitions There were obviously fireworks going off in some of the videos. The fireworks clearly weren’t the only thing that exploded. The ammonium nitrate (especially 2700 tons) would do it. I’m not ruling out they theory that there were weapons stored there, but the fertilizer answer isn’t outlandish.
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Re: Beirut goes boom
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08/06/20 01:59 PM
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it wasnt no firework thats for sure. Likely black hat munitions There were obviously fireworks going off in some of the videos. The fireworks clearly weren’t the only thing that exploded. The ammonium nitrate (especially 2700 tons) would do it. I’m not ruling out they theory that there were weapons stored there, but the fertilizer answer isn’t outlandish. Anyone remember the fertilizer explosion in West a few years ago? Absolutely believe it was ammonium nitrate....which is also used in bomb making so there’s that too
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