Graphical representation of the size of the Beirut explosion

"davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com" (davesaddiction) 08/19/2020 at 15:18 • Filed to: None

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The scale compared with OKC, and then compared with Hiroshima...

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user314 > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 08/19/2020 at 15:27

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...DAMN

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 08/19/2020 at 15:30

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bigly indeed.

ttyymmnn > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 08/19/2020 at 15:38

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415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 08/19/2020 at 15:41

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I’m quite familiar with the first few on the list, ” MOP’d up” a few things in my time. We never used a MOAB but we did use some daisy cutters, fun fact about that is they create an implosion from the air burning off, when you drop one near a cave system it sucks everything out. 

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 08/19/2020 at 15:41

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Woah, I knew it was big but that big?

ranwhenparked > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 08/19/2020 at 15:48

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Really puts the Halifax explosion in context too, like, damn, that wasn’t a big city at the time. An explosion even a small fraction of that size would have been enough to totally level it.

Dusty Ventures > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 08/19/2020 at 15:57

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Remember when early guesses thought it was comparable to Tianjin?

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Dusty Ventures 08/19/2020 at 16:07

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Not even close. 

hillrat > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 08/19/2020 at 16:10

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YOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

McMike > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 08/19/2020 at 16:12

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Seems having a lot of ammonium nitrate in one place is a bad thing.

HammerheadFistpunch > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 08/19/2020 at 16:17

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Thats about what I figured. You can do nukemap to see what kind of havok it would reek on your neck of the woods.

https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

wafflesnfalafel > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 08/19/2020 at 16:30

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that is super interesting, I hadn’t even ever heard of that gigantic one up in Canada in 2017...

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > McMike 08/19/2020 at 16:30

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Such an avoidable tragedy - s eems like the dock superintendent should have just sold it to a fertilizer/explosives company like he wanted to and and asked for forgiveness later if the powers that be weren’t happy with the decision.

I’m doing X. If you don’t want me to do X, notify me within the month. If I don’t hear from you, I’ll take that as approval.

haveacarortwoorthree2 > wafflesnfalafel 08/19/2020 at 16:31

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1917

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > HammerheadFistpunch 08/19/2020 at 16:34

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Big enough to decimate most of downtown Tulsa. 

wafflesnfalafel > haveacarortwoorthree2 08/19/2020 at 16:36

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oops, typo...   it’s bad enough to be on a ship crashing into another ship but then have one ship blow everybody off the face of the earth... damn...

My bird IS the word > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 08/19/2020 at 16:44

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Aww i wanted to see it compared with a Davy Crockett portable nuke

McMike > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 08/19/2020 at 16:48

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It’s Crazy Emir’s greatest fertilizer sale EVER!!!! Get your ammonium, get your nitrate, get them both together all on sale NOOWWW at Crazy Emir’s greatest fertilizer sale EVER!!!! Remember, we are not undersold, we won’t be undersold we CAN NOT be undersold... and we mean it. So get anything and everything NOW at Crazy Emir’s greatest fertilizer sale EVER!!!! Crazy Emir’s prices are. INSANE!

user314 > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 08/19/2020 at 17:23

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Yeah, somehow I can’t see that working out in his favor....

user314 > HammerheadFistpunch 08/19/2020 at 17:30

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Oof...

Double oof:

facw > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 08/19/2020 at 17:46

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Seems like if they had just left it on the ship, things might have been way less bad. The ship they seized it from was stuck in the harbor, eventually towed out to the seawall side to keep it out of the way, and then sunk there due to disrepair: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/07/world/middleeast/lebanon-explosion-ship.html

I harbor full of fertilizer from a sunk ship probably isn’t great, but better than a hole in your city.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > facw 08/19/2020 at 17:49

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Hindsight...

ranwhenparked > facw 08/19/2020 at 18:17

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Happens with a lot of different hazardous materials -asbestos, etc, sometimes the least risky option is to leave it alone. 

ranwhenparked > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 08/19/2020 at 18:18

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Yeah, it’s Lebanon - Syria and Israel adjacent, not like there isn’t a good local market for a ship load of highly explosive fertilize.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > HammerheadFistpunch 08/20/2020 at 00:34

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9 0% of the suburban area of the town I live in... including all services, schools and health care.

pip bip - choose Corrour > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 08/20/2020 at 04:46

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interesting read.