Explosion in Lebanon

[mr.checkerboards]

This pretty scary to see. No word on casualties or injuries.

 

[hog88]

Holy chit, that was a big bang.

 

[NorthDallas40]

I’m gonna guess a fertilizer shipment went boom.

Damn look at that cloud. Almost low yield nuke level.

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

I’m gonna guess a fertilizer shipment went boom.

Damn look at that cloud. Almost low yield nuke level.

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[MG1968]

CNN reporting it was a storage warehouse for firecrackers.

 

[headhunter15]

Don’t think there is anyway that came from fireworks. That legit looked like a small nuke.

 

[jp1]

CNN reporting it was a storage warehouse for firecrackers.

I'm calling BS on that. One would think it wouldn't have been a single massive explosion if it was fireworks. Did you see the reddish plume afterwards?

 

[MG1968]

It could have been a natural gas explosion. Imagine a ship carrying LNG in massive pressure vessels. One of those things exploding is going to look like a small nuke.

 

[mr.checkerboards]

That smoke kinda looks like a mushroom cloud.

 

[TheDeeble]

CNN reporting it was a storage warehouse for firecrackers.

Peaceful protesters protesting against the US is what I heard.

Kidding aside, that may be true. We're seeing some major explosion. If it's fireworks storage there could have been several minutes of small pops and explosions before something big went that wasn't recorded or may just not have surfaced. Youtube fireworks explosions and sometimes you see a big massive boom.

 

[hog88]

CNN reporting it was a storage warehouse for firecrackers.

BBC reporting it could be related to a terrorist trial.

Large blast rocks Beirut ahead of Hariri verdict

 

[n_huffhines]

Insane

 

[NorthDallas40]

For comparison this is the biggest thing we’ve got before you go nuke. It will generate a similar cloud in a surface detonation. Fuel air explosive or thermobaric explosive. AKA MOAB. Atomized fuel cloud lit off by a spark. Our largest is the GBU-43 I believe.



Here is a GBU-43. 10+ tons of TNT. That blast was considerably larger.

 

[mr.checkerboards]

BBC reporting it could be related to a terrorist trial.

Large blast rocks Beirut ahead of Hariri verdict

Terrorist attack was honestly my first thought.

 

[Velo Vol]

There was a fire and a number of small flashes before the big explosion.

 

[mr.checkerboards]

Heres another unique angle.

 

[MG1968]

That shockwave is just weird looking. It goes out then seems to go up.

 

[volfanhill]

CNN reporting it was a storage warehouse for firecrackers.

To be fair, CNN is reporting that state run media over there is reporting that.

 

[NorthDallas40]

Jesus Christ. That is going to be several tons of TNT equivalency to throw out that pressure wave like that. The spherical dome at the pressure wave is probably water vapor coming out of suspension in the atmosphere due to the pressure wave compression of the highly humid coastal atmosphere. Just like you see in the old sea based hydrogen bomb tests.

 

[VolunteerHillbilly]

If that was a fireworks warehouse, someone on the zoning board needs to be reprimanded.

 

[MG1968]

To be fair, CNN is reporting that state run media over there is reporting that.

Yeah, I wasn’t criticizing them over their initial reporting.

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

That shockwave is just weird looking. It goes out then seems to go up.

.

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

Yeah, I wasn’t criticizing them over their initial reporting.

You've got common sense. You can use it every now and then.

That was a nuke.

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

For comparison this is the biggest thing we’ve got before you go nuke. It will generate a similar cloud in a surface detonation. Fuel air explosive or thermobaric explosive. AKA MOAB. Atomized fuel cloud lit off by a spark. Our largest is the GBU-43 I believe.



Here is a GBU-43. 10+ tons of TNT. That blast was considerably larger.

Nah, not buying it.

 

[Sea Ray]

You've got common sense. You can use it every now and then.

That was a nuke.

It'll be very easy to determine if it was a nuke. I think it's premature to make that statement now