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cyberpunkstreetart 21 points ago +21 / -0

Holy fucking shit! What the hell could have even blown up that big? A million gallons of jet fuel or a stack of ICBM's?

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Demonspawn 11 points ago +12 / -1

Fert or flour would do the same, no BS.

Now that I'm seeing a cleaner pic of the explosion, I don't agree with my initial assessment (different thread) of propane or gasoline. I thought the licks of red I saw were flame behind smoke.

We know we have a pre-existing fire before the explosion. The explosion throws a red-brown cloud that doesn't appear to have strong secondary combustion/explosion. There's some orange tips in this vid, but it's not rolling flame in the other vid.

I hate to tell you, guys, but I don't know what this was. The fire set off something, but I really don't know what.

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cyberpunkstreetart 5 points ago +5 / -0

Thanks for the intel! I know sugar mill explosions, for example, can be enormous, so that checks out!

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Maenard 4 points ago +4 / -0

Ammonium nitrate. Yall know what that is. Dangerous stuff. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium_nitrate_disasters

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CanadianMeathead 18 points ago +19 / -1

Liberals finding out Trump was re-elected?

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quotahire 14 points ago +14 / -0

Best video I’ve seen of it yet

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throwaway-5947375959 14 points ago +14 / -0

LEBANON: I have information that will lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton...

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Pres_Trump 9 points ago +9 / -0

Anyone who thinks this is a nuke obviously hasn't seen a nuke blast. But, a huge blast none the less. The link showing the several clips shows a ton damage.

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Delta92 -3 points ago +3 / -6

This could easily be a mini nuke or suitcase nuke as it’s known. Fireworks, chemicals, and even conventional arms wouldn’t create a blast and shockwave that large. People got with debris MILES away.

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Pres_Trump 6 points ago +6 / -0

"Fireworks, chemicals, and even conventional arms wouldn't create a shockwave that large".....you would be surprised.

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Delta92 -1 points ago +1 / -2

Maybe a munitions depot but that’s all I can see realistically. I don’t buy fireworks for one second.

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Maenard 2 points ago +2 / -0

Its ammonium nitrate. The shit McVeigh used to blow up the federal building in OK. It is INCREDIBLY dangerous and usually found in port cities as fertilizer is shipped in.

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Delta92 1 point ago +1 / -0

🙄 Mcveigh didn’t do that shit. The Clintons blew that building up. Timmy was an insecure white supremacist patsy who got used.

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Maenard 2 points ago +2 / -0

Nah, man. A mushroom cloud is literally every explosion. The difference is the area it is in. A nuke is dropped on top of things, usually open area. That allows maximum expansion to the sides and top.

From 0 to about 30 feet up(height depends on area) is something called the ground effect. It is essentially dense air compared to upper atmosphere. When you see an explosion, you are witnessing the lateral limits due to density, then the vertical chimney due to density.

Think of it like this... You put an explosive under sand that is under water. The blast pushes the sand laterally, and vertically(Assuming the charge isnt shaped). The sand is thicker, more dense, so it only goes out a bit. The blast is directed up, but after it hits the water, the chimney effect is reduced, causing it to spread laterally higher up into the water, because the water is less dense and cant hold the shape.

Even outside the specific extra density of the ground effect, air is progressively less dense the higher up you go, which makes the chimney walls break down at the top as the blast spreads outward at the top. The continuing thrust from below is from inside, which creates the mushroom cloud. It's basically a cylinder vortex of upper air spreading out while lower air inside pushes up. For a boat, this effect is called a wake, which is curved, just on a different axis.

There is no way in hell this is a nuke, small or otherwise.

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TheStoneOfSisyphus 7 points ago +10 / -3

Fake news. Michael Moore went over there to get a falafel and he farted.

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BlackJack1776 4 points ago +4 / -0

So... He Swallowed?

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keepwinning 7 points ago +7 / -0

peaceful greetings

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mintyfresh 7 points ago +7 / -0

Fireworks? More likely arms from Iran.

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Lol_Garrus 7 points ago +7 / -0

This reminds me of the explosion in Tianjin, China in 2015. There was a fire and the fire sparked a large storage of annonium nitrate and potassium nitrate. People arent sure exatcly what was stored at that warehouse.

This looks very similar, a fire in a seaport, industrial area that hit the storage container of hazardous chemicals.

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americanwolf 3 points ago +3 / -0

And then they tried to put the fire out with water, and there was a fuckton of some chemical (lithium? IDK) in the air that made it 100 times worse

iirc

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Maenard 3 points ago +3 / -0

That's what this was. Good eye.

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knightofday 1 point ago +1 / -0

Thanks!

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DeetleMcsneedlestein 5 points ago +8 / -3

Is our greatest ally up to some shenanigans?

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Maenard 3 points ago +3 / -0

Looks like they werent. Lebanon statement is Ammonium Nitrate at a facility. It's an accident. Rather, it is a local source of the blast and not a missile or bomb.

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twoterms 3 points ago +4 / -1

Yes, blame the jews with everything. GTFOH.

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Eowyn_Rohan 5 points ago +5 / -0

Was it a warehouse full of explosives?

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Icanteven 4 points ago +4 / -0

headlines I saw said it was "warehouse of fireworks." one video does show the fire before hand with sparkler looking things going up, so its plausible to a degree. Either way, that's a big fucking boom

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Shwoogin 5 points ago +5 / -0

Holy smokes.

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Covfefe_Crusader 4 points ago +4 / -0

BIG badda boom!

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Nadlers_Belt 4 points ago +4 / -0

Happy Eid-ul-Adha, shitbags.

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CoyoteTan 3 points ago +3 / -0

That looks like the type of industrial accident from a fire that happens with shit storage of chemicals. Same shit happened in Tianjin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=26&v=vN9t3_R0WQI&feature=emb_logo

Similar thing at a Texas fertilizer plant in '13 https://youtu.be/jzDC3iKbTzY

If you see an industrial fire GTFO.

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jubyeonin 2 points ago +2 / -0

Hold the camera, beta!

From the half second I saw, it wasn't like any explosion I've ever seen. I've been close to a chemical factory explosion. Huge light, sound, then shockwave. This looked like mostly force.

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Maenard 1 point ago +1 / -0

Its the water that is skewing it for you. It puts up a kind of veil in a perfect circle that looks very video game graphicsy.

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FLWoman 2 points ago +2 / -0

Wow!

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spezisacuckold 2 points ago +2 / -0

"fiREwOrKs"

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SixteenBeatsAOne 2 points ago +2 / -0

And according to Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim, the head of Lebanon’s general security service, "highly explosive materials" were stored at this port site. These materials were seized by the government years ago. So what was the Lebanese Government doing with this storage, and are there other storage sites that are just as dangerous? And now, Al-Hadeth News says this massive Beirut explosion was a warehouse site for Iranian missiles to Hezbollah!

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Wheredidiputit 1 point ago +1 / -0

fuck yeah it was. nobody is outrunning a shockwave

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Wheredidiputit 1 point ago +1 / -0

I don't think very deep

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