Beirut
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 7:31 pm
You seen the video right next to it?! Unmute
https://www.reddit.tube/video/105cd0a08 ... ign=zone_4
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Re: Beirut
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 7:43 pm
Re: Beirut
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 7:47 pm
better shot:
https://tuckbot.tv/#/watch/i3lzc3
Why would that kind of material be held in civilian polulations. Jesus Christ.
https://tuckbot.tv/#/watch/i3lzc3
Why would that kind of material be held in civilian polulations. Jesus Christ.
Re: Beirut
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 7:51 pm
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.
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.
Re: Beirut
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 8:15 pm
Apparently it might be stored sodium nitrate
Re: Beirut
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 8:16 pm
After seeing all the videos from afar, the close-up video is the craziest. Mainly because it doesn’t seem that bad...
Re: Beirut
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 8:53 pm
phantasmagoria wrote:better shot:
https://tuckbot.tv/#/watch/i3lzc3
Why would that kind of material be held in civilian polulations. Jesus Christ.
That shockwave
Re: Beirut
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 9:30 pm
Brace yourselves for the conspiracy theories. :miffed:
Re: Beirut
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 9:40 pm
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.
Re: Beirut
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2020 6:33 am
I like this bit...Transient wrote:Brace yourselves for the conspiracy theories. :miffed:
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
Re: Beirut
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2020 1:32 pm
The before and after pictures are staggering.
Re: Beirut
Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2020 9:15 pm
Just water were that storage facility used to be... the sheer force...
Fuck.
And the country was ruined already because of fucked-up politics.
Fuck.
And the country was ruined already because of fucked-up politics.
Re: Beirut
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2020 4:04 am
isnt that the same shit that caused the big ass explosion at that chinese port like 2 or 3 years ago?
Re: Beirut
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2020 8:59 am
ammonium nitrate?
same thing McVeigh used in Oklahoma City but way way more
same thing McVeigh used in Oklahoma City but way way more
Re: Beirut
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2020 3:56 pm
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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Tianjin_explosions
Re: Beirut
Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2020 3:58 am
Apparently the Beirut one was something like 2,700 tons. Detonation velocity of NH4NO3 is 2.5km/s - that is fucking nuts
Re: Beirut
Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2020 8:53 pm
https://www.maritime-executive.com/arti ... explosives
Wow... this years darwin awards are decided.Sparks from their welding work ignited a supply of fireworks, which had been stored next to the ammonium nitrate cache
Re: Beirut
Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2020 9:07 pm
So some dumbass contractor didn't bother to do a safety check before welding, and a week later the Lebanese government has all resigned.
Re: Beirut
Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2020 5:42 am
That's simplifying it way too much.Transient wrote:So some dumbass contractor didn't bother to do a safety check before welding, and a week later the Lebanese government has all resigned.
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.
Re: Beirut
Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2020 6:44 am
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.
Re: Beirut
Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2020 7:46 pm
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.
[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.
Re: Beirut
Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2020 2:11 pm
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.
3d model looks really interesting, I'll have a gander at it.
Re: Beirut
Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2020 3:16 pm
like they said - a makeshift bomb