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Posted on 8/4/20 at 10:39 pm to borotiger
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To be fair, boomers created social media.
Posted on 8/4/20 at 11:08 pm to baldona
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To be fair, there’s Facebook live and many other live video social media platforms. You can have a video going while you die.
I understand that. I guess my point is we immediately jump to "oh, there must be 1,000+ deaths" and "there is no way this person survived", when, in reality, it's often far less deadly than it appears at first glance. I'd be inclined to think most of these people videoing actually survived. I'm not sure how random folks on Twitter would know if they died already anyway.
Posted on 8/4/20 at 11:34 pm to Chucktown_Badger
Posted on 8/4/20 at 11:36 pm to Chucktown_Badger
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If you believe this I'm not sure you know what a boomer is.
The last thing they remember is listening to Howard Stern on AM radio into work in the mid 1990s.
You do have to keep up. You know with almost 30 years of time passing.
Posted on 8/4/20 at 11:40 pm to borotiger
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Try again.
The more you know
How boomer of you to try to claim an Indian born scientist as an American baby boomer.
Posted on 8/4/20 at 11:49 pm to slackster
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How boomer of you to try to claim an Indian born scientist as an American baby boomer.
Like nationality has anything to do with the era someone was born into and how stupid of you to attempt to use race to cover your ignorance.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 6:13 am to borotiger
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How boomer of you to try to claim an Indian born scientist as an American baby boomer.
Like nationality has anything to do with the era someone was born into and how stupid of you to attempt to use race to cover your ignorance.
Unless kids are rewriting history (again), Boomers are Baby Boomers, the very large generation of Americans conceived after WW2. The US was basically untouched on it's own soil by the war, people were happy about winning it, and the economy was going full speed.
It's an American phenomena, because no other country came out of the war in similar condition. Europe was ravaged, Asia was in upheaval, and all the former European colonies were suddenly on their own.
Why are we bitching about this in a thread on the Beirut explosion, anyway?
Posted on 8/5/20 at 6:17 am to borotiger
We actually have posters like this guy who don't know what the baby boomer generation is???
This place finds a way to amaze me every day.
This place finds a way to amaze me every day.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 6:18 am to slackster
Hate to say it but this was an Israeli sabotage. You have to connect the dots, the Iranians have been having mysterious explosions all around their state the past two months. Google it. The Israelis in the past two weeks have been shelling the Syrian side of the border, and have had intermittent mini skirmishes with Hezbollah. Nasan Hazarallah the leader of Hezbollah took over control of the Beirut port years ago, and has been accepting shipments of Iranian rocket fuel Octagen, and warheads.
For so long they hid it in the civilian sector thinking the Israelis would never bomb it because if they did they’d look like bad actors. With everything mysteriously happening in the last two months the Israelis must have had intel Hezbollah, and Iran were going to move against them.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 6:18 am to Fun Bunch
Getting more information on the amount of the source material now. Articles this morning are saying Ammonium Nitrate and the amount is more than the amount that exploded in Texas City in 1947. If so, this was one of the largest artificial non-nuclear explosions ever.
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Prime Minister Hassan Diab said that about 2,750 metric tons of ammonium nitrate, a highly explosive material, had been stored at a port warehouse for the past six years "without preventive measures."
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The amount of explosives and the shockwaves created by the blast, May said, "is typical of what would be equivalent to a kiloton nuclear bomb going off as far as the explosive weight is concerned."
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One of the worst disasters in US history involving a form of ammonia occurred in April 1947 when a ship loaded with ammonium nitrate caught fire while docked in Texas City. The fire caused an explosion and additional fires that damaged more than 1,000 buildings and killed nearly 400 people, according to the website of the Texas Historical Association. For perspective, that explosion was triggered by 2,300 US tons (about 2087 metric tons) of ammonium nitrate, according to US Homeland Security.
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And the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing, a US domestic terror attack that killed 169 people and injured 467, used only two US tons (1.8 metric tons) of ammonium nitrate.
This post was edited on 8/5/20 at 6:24 am
Posted on 8/5/20 at 6:30 am to Catchfalaya
There are half a dozen conspiracies on this thing and it all depends on who you want to blame.
Was it Mossad taking out a weapons cache? Was it Hezbollah trying to destabilize the city ahead of war crimes arrests?
It's more likely a lot simpler to explain. An inept government stored a bunch of bad stuff for years until someone nearby accidentally started a fire.
ETA: My Syrian coworker just came in ranting about how it was an Israeli missile strike on a Hezbollah nuclear cache. It's hard to tell who he hates more: Israel or Hezbollah. He said he spent two years in Beirut after he fled Syria and that Hezbollah were major assholes to the Syrian refugees.
Was it Mossad taking out a weapons cache? Was it Hezbollah trying to destabilize the city ahead of war crimes arrests?
It's more likely a lot simpler to explain. An inept government stored a bunch of bad stuff for years until someone nearby accidentally started a fire.
ETA: My Syrian coworker just came in ranting about how it was an Israeli missile strike on a Hezbollah nuclear cache. It's hard to tell who he hates more: Israel or Hezbollah. He said he spent two years in Beirut after he fled Syria and that Hezbollah were major assholes to the Syrian refugees.
This post was edited on 8/5/20 at 6:58 am
Posted on 8/5/20 at 6:33 am to borotiger
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Like nationality has anything to do with the era someone was born into and how stupid of you to attempt to use race to cover your ignorance.
...are you really that retarded...
Posted on 8/5/20 at 6:42 am to borotiger
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Like nationality has anything to do with the era someone was born into and how stupid of you to attempt to use race to cover your ignorance.
Holy. shite.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 7:09 am to Fun Bunch
Does seconds from disaster still make shows? This would be a good one.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 7:24 am to BottomlandBrew
That half the grain silo is still standing is awesome, and this photo shows that the grain didn't explode.
Nor did the silo collapse. Early sketches that showed it deflecting the blast upwards seem to be the reason that buildings 'in back' of it don't seem as damaged.
The Daily Mail has over a hundred dead, and 300,000 homeless.
As to numbers of dead, one video yesterday showed at least ten dead bodies in a walk less than a minute long; maybe some of the parts could reassmble to drop that number by two or three. Id's are going to be hard, with some corpses having had their clothing blown off and others disassembled.
This story isn't over.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 7:26 am to real turf fan
quote:it's pretty incredible the difference between the buildings on the right half of the picture vs the left.
Early sketches that showed it deflecting the blast upwards seem to be the reason that buildings 'in back' of it don't seem as damaged.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 7:30 am to real turf fan
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the grain didn't explode.
Grain doesn't explode in the way you are thinking, the dust is what explodes. Solid grain will just burn.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 7:47 am to tLSU
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We actually have posters like this guy who don't know what the baby boomer generation is???
Definitely. Youngsters use catch all ‘boomer’ for anyone over about 50.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 7:56 am to redstick13
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If so, this was one of the largest artificial non-nuclear explosions ever.
You might want to read up on operation Minor Scale and Misty Picture, both had larger yields than Texas City.
wiki of non nuclear explosions
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