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re: Extremely massive explosion in Beirut.

Posted on 8/5/20 at 11:04 am to
Posted by redstick13
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Posted on 8/5/20 at 11:04 am to
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Lebanon's COVID death numbers just spiked. I wonder how this is Trump's fault...



Kindly take your retard arse back to the poliboard.
Posted by slackster
Houston
Member since Mar 2009
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Posted on 8/5/20 at 11:21 am to
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Jesus, that aerial before and after is insane.



It is. Just imagine if all of these warehouses around it were apartments instead.

It's one thing to have a commercial buffer/perimeter around a chemical plant or something, but to have it around a grain silo and a dry warehouse is a small silver lining.
Posted by Bobby OG Johnson
Member since Apr 2015
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Posted on 8/5/20 at 11:24 am to
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) -- Lebanon putting unspecified number of Beirut port officials under house arrest after huge explosion killed more than 100.
Posted by real turf fan
East Tennessee
Member since Dec 2016
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Posted on 8/5/20 at 11:31 am to
The Russian who owned the N cargo before it was impoundedLINK is in a photo at this site.

My husband had some experience with explosives while he was in the army and the crater that the explosion created impressed the hell out of him. He had worked on trying to create 'instant harbors' theoretically, of course, and he was impressed by the first shots. The comparison aerials really got his attention, and we both wondered if the soil was vaporized, or blown into the ship channels between the piers.
Posted by EdmondDontez
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Posted on 8/5/20 at 11:34 am to
The adds on that site just gave my computer a stroke
Posted by carhartt
Member since Feb 2013
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Posted on 8/5/20 at 11:37 am to
Looks like someone photoshopped a cruise ship on its side on the right side of that after aerial pic.
This post was edited on 8/5/20 at 11:38 am
Posted by El Mattadorr
Member since Mar 2019
2374 posts
Posted on 8/5/20 at 11:43 am to
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Lebanon's COVID death numbers just spiked. I wonder how this is Trump's fault...


Oh, frick off.
Posted by LSUBoo
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Member since Mar 2006
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Posted on 8/5/20 at 11:44 am to
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Looks like someone photoshopped a cruise ship on its side on the right side of that after aerial pic.


It's in this one too...

Posted by Konkey Dong
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Posted on 8/5/20 at 11:45 am to
Posted by Pettifogger
I don't really care, Margaret
Member since Feb 2012
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Posted on 8/5/20 at 11:54 am to
That's amazing
Posted by When in Rome
Telegraph Road
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Posted on 8/5/20 at 11:57 am to
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The grain silos at the epicenter of yesterday’s Port of #Beirut explosion were holding thousands of pounds of dried corn.

These kernels are far too large to undergo dispersion, so we thus avoided a fuel-air explosion as I had originally feared.




Posted by fr33manator
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Posted on 8/5/20 at 11:59 am to
Not gonna lie, i’m disappointed there aren’t mountains of popcorn there
Posted by Drank
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Posted on 8/5/20 at 12:01 pm to
That’s incredible. If you told me that was an opening sequence in a new action mkvie I would believe you and would want to see it
Posted by real turf fan
East Tennessee
Member since Dec 2016
10214 posts
Posted on 8/5/20 at 12:03 pm to
The ship in the background on its side looks like a "half hull" from the 1800s that were used instead of blue prints (which didn't exist then) to build a boat. And the plimsoll line paint shows how much of the below water line isn't below water any more.

Must have been a hell of a rescue to get to people on that ship.
Posted by HeadSlash
TEAM LIVE BADASS - St. GEORGE
Member since Aug 2006
53070 posts
Posted on 8/5/20 at 12:08 pm to
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I don't think that was a Toyota Hilux backfiring.


Top Gear fan? Would a Hilux survive?
Posted by Funky Tide 8
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Member since Feb 2009
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Posted on 8/5/20 at 12:11 pm to
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These kernels are far too large to undergo dispersion, so we thus avoided a fuel-air explosion as I had originally feared.



what does this mean exactly? I feel dumb.
Posted by WillFerrellisking
Member since Jun 2019
1984 posts
Posted on 8/5/20 at 12:13 pm to
If it wasn’t so far I’d drive there to fill up my deer feeders with that corn
Posted by Tbonepatron
Member since Aug 2013
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Posted on 8/5/20 at 12:19 pm to
The corn kernels are too big to light off in a dust cloud explosion.
Posted by Trevaylin
south texas
Member since Feb 2019
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Posted on 8/5/20 at 12:19 pm to




where is all the people reclaiming grain
Posted by When in Rome
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Posted on 8/5/20 at 12:19 pm to
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Corn starch is to blame for at least two recorded dust explosions. Not sure there are any other recorded cases of a dust explosion from corn/corn-milled product.
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Corn starch is to blame for at least two recorded dust explosions. Not sure there are any other recorded cases of a dust explosion from corn/corn-milled product.
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Dust explosions are a constant concern at grain elevators. Dust can build in the air at transfer points like dumps and loadouts and can explode if it ignites. Typically elevators are required to have a dust collection scheme to mitigate this risk.
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