Beirut

[Don Carlos]

BOOM

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-53656220

That is naughty

[PhoeniX]

You seen the video right next to it?! Unmute

https://www.reddit.tube/video/105cd0a08 ... ign=zone_4

[phantasmagoria]

better shot:

https://tuckbot.tv/#/watch/i3lzc3

Why would that kind of material be held in civilian polulations. Jesus Christ.

[Transient]

That reddit video makes it seem like a fireworks factory, or maybe that was munitions? It definitely seemed less catastrophic than the videos from afar. At any rate, crazy shit.

edit: Holy Christ, that last video is insane, seeing the pieces of the buildings lifting up into the air just before the blast wave hits them. It's like something out of a movie.

[PhoeniX]

Apparently it might be stored sodium nitrate

[xer0s]

After seeing all the videos from afar, the close-up video is the craziest. Mainly because it doesn’t seem that bad...

[Whiskey 7]

better shot:

https://tuckbot.tv/#/watch/i3lzc3

Why would that kind of material be held in civilian polulations. Jesus Christ.

That shockwave

[Transient]

Brace yourselves for the conspiracy theories. :miffed:

[Captain]

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/08/ ... rut-Hariri

Abbas Ibrahim, the head of Lebanon’s General Security, said that “highly explosive materials” confiscated earlier had been stored at the site.

[Whiskey 7]

Brace yourselves for the conspiracy theories. :miffed:

I like this bit...

Without offering any evidence, US President Donald Trump said the US military believed the explosion was caused by a "bomb of some kind".

"They seem to think it was an attack," Mr Trump said.

Two US officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told Reuters it was not clear where Mr Trump received his information.

They said initial information did not appear to show the explosion was an attack.

Source

[Lieutenant Dan]

The before and after pictures are staggering.

[Ferrao10]

Just water were that storage facility used to be... the sheer force...
Fuck.

And the country was ruined already because of fucked-up politics.

[Silicone_Milk]

isnt that the same shit that caused the big ass explosion at that chinese port like 2 or 3 years ago?

[seremtan]

ammonium nitrate?

same thing McVeigh used in Oklahoma City but way way more

[Silicone_Milk]

Yeah that's what it is. I looked into it and there was 800 tonnes of ammonium nitrate on the site in addition to 500 tonnes of potassium nitrate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Tianjin_explosions

[mrd]

Apparently the Beirut one was something like 2,700 tons. Detonation velocity of NH4NO3 is 2.5km/s - that is fucking nuts

[Pext]

https://www.maritime-executive.com/arti ... explosives

Sparks from their welding work ignited a supply of fireworks, which had been stored next to the ammonium nitrate cache

Wow... this years darwin awards are decided.

[Transient]

So some dumbass contractor didn't bother to do a safety check before welding, and a week later the Lebanese government has all resigned.

[Eraser]

So some dumbass contractor didn't bother to do a safety check before welding, and a week later the Lebanese government has all resigned.

That's simplifying it way too much.
First of all, the explosive material was never supposed to be there in the first place. Also, this explosion is what broke the proverbial camel's back. It's not like the Lebanese government was doing a good job before this.

[Transient]

I totally agree, I was deliberately simplifying it. I meant to point out the fragility of the government over there. There's a lot of it going around, these days.

[Transient]

https://forensic-architecture.org/inves ... -explosion

[lvlshot]https://content.forensic-architecture.o ... 00x900.jpg[/lvlshot]

12-minute video of a forensic analysis of the blast with a digital reconstruction. Quite interesting.

[phantasmagoria]

Fascinating what they've deduced from camera footage. Such a cacophony of negligence. I hope it helps the families bring who's accountable to justice.

3d model looks really interesting, I'll have a gander at it.

[seremtan]

like they said - a makeshift bomb