96Firebird
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Most likely that was a live stream, I doubt anything survived that close.
There’s been this pic circulating allegedly showing workman at warehouse (supposedly welding doors to make it more secure)I have been wondering how that much A-N was stored in an unprotected warehouse with no safeguards inside a port city for 6 years and nobody gave a big damn.
That would be dangerous stored in a proper bunker with deflecting berms etc.
There’s been this pic circulating allegedly showing workman at warehouse (supposedly welding doors to make it more secure)
You left out next to a fucking fireworks factory/storage facility!I have been wondering how that much A-N was stored in an unprotected warehouse with no safeguards inside a port city for 6 years and nobody gave a big damn.
That would be dangerous stored in a proper bunker with deflecting berms etc.
I think that was one of the earlier smaller explosions at the fireworks factory. It looks like it was before things really got cooking. I’m guessing they got the fudge out of there before the big one went off.
There’s been this pic circulating allegedly showing workman at warehouse (supposedly welding doors to make it more secure)
Could have been a livestream followed by a death, wouldn't be the first time.It worked, thanks.
This particular one is ...
How on earth did they managed to put out this video? @ that distance ... DAMN ...
Don't forget it was the country's major port.You left out next to a fucking fireworks factory/storage facility!
Don`t forget it took out all the red light district.......Don't forget it was the country's major port.
Also don't forget it was next to the primary grain silo for the country.
Took out a lot more than that, they've got some 300k homeless now.Don`t forget it took out all the red light district.......
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/05/europe/lebanon-russian-ship-blast-intl/index.htmlI don't see any evidence of welding. The whole thing started in the warehouse next door, anyway, which was full of fireworks. They're a helluva lot easier to touch off than nitropril.
Ammonium nitrate is fairly hard to ignite all by its lonesome. Welding sparks could do it but it's not often that welding sparks end up on the other side of the weld (welding from the outside, most sparks end up outside). Far more likely imho that something ignited the fireworks next door, and the ample explosions that resulted ended up igniting it. I wonder if they were instructed to weld a large number of doors shut around the dock area? Sealing entrances or whatever? Just curious that the fire that caused the explosion very clearly had fireworks going off in it prior to the AN warehouse igniting fully. If the fire started in the facility holding the AN, it would have just exploded, no fireworks (though that warehouse would have gone up with it).https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/05/europe/lebanon-russian-ship-blast-intl/index.html
Maintenance was conducted on the warehouse door just hours before the blast on Tuesday, he added. "We were asked to fix a door of the warehouse by State Security and we did that at noon, but what occurred in the afternoon I have no idea," he said.
Maybe I was wrong about the welding but they were definitely working on it
At any rate the ammonium nitrate was confiscated from a Russian freighter who left it there. In the intervening years bureaucrats at the dock filed several memos warning about the danger.
Ammonium nitrate is fairly hard to ignite all by its lonesome. Welding sparks could do it but it's not often that welding sparks end up on the other side of the weld (welding from the outside, most sparks end up outside). Far more likely imho that something ignited the fireworks next door, and the ample explosions that resulted ended up igniting it. I wonder if they were instructed to weld a large number of doors shut around the dock area? Sealing entrances or whatever? Just curious that the fire that caused the explosion very clearly had fireworks going off in it prior to the AN warehouse igniting fully. If the fire started in the facility holding the AN, it would have just exploded, no fireworks (though that warehouse would have gone up with it).
Little boy, the Hiroshima bomb, was 15 kilotons. The Beirut blast would be closer to just over 1 kiloton. 1,000 metric tons.So, I was wondering. They say it was a stash of something like 2000 tons of ammonium nitrate. I think a typical atomic bomb is equivalent to something like 10,000 tons of dynamite. What's the equivalence of the explosiveness of ammonium nitrate compared to dynamite. IOW, how many tons of dynamite would have caused a similar explosion?
I have been wondering how that much A-N was stored in an unprotected warehouse with no safeguards inside a port city for 6 years and nobody gave a big damn.
That would be dangerous stored in a proper bunker with deflecting berms etc.
Trumpie jumped to a conclusion and tweeted that it was a terrible terrorist act. He's such a fuckin' crackpot!
Trumpie jumped to a conclusion and tweeted that it was a terrible terrorist act. He's such a fuckin' crackpot!
I would think that a lot of people would jump to that conclusion or at least that suspicion if they saw the explosion without any background information.
Who would suspect they would be stupid enough to store that much AN in a port warehouse for over 6 years. And next door to a warehouse full of fireworks.
Could have been a livestream followed by a death, wouldn't be the first time.
Please. Trump lies. His generals didn't tell him anything. He just planted the seed of a conspiracy theory. Maybe he can make it into a distraction from his incompetence.
Please learn to to read. I didn't defend what Trump said or his reasons for saying it.
When I saw the explosion on the news with the sound off, my first thought was a terrorist attack. I didn't know where or what just the video of the explosion and that is what I thought. I'm sure that I'm not alone.