Explosion in Beirut

[Pato del Muerto 52501]

35 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:

he’s literally just making shit up and going completely going off script. 
 

 

That doesn’t sound like him

[purplepride95 6890]

 

[Pato del Muerto 52501]

Did I miss it or are we into page five without

Beirut, Beirut, Beirut is on fire!

[high side 3 way 54]

2 hours ago, Captainant said:

Well, aside from the president saying that the joint chiefs told him it could be an attack?

[Eastwood 4394]

49 minutes ago, Helobious said:

I never scienced that good. But unless he got hit by debris that shockwave doesn’t really seem like it’d be lethal.

The shock wave was strong enough to damage the concrete building a couple of blocks away. It was probably like getting hit with sledgehammers all over his body. Here's a video of a guy's car getting demolished from across the got damn bay:

If you weren't in some kind of shelter within a mile of that explosion, you're getting rattled to death.

[Hate 20108]

25 minutes ago, purplepride95 said:

 

That's a sign from Allah that he should run away.

[ztejas 43454]

8 minutes ago, Eastwood said:

The shock wave was strong enough to damage the concrete building a couple of blocks away. It was probably like getting hit with sledgehammers all over his body. Here's a video of a guy's car getting demolished from across the got damn bay:

If you weren't in some kind of shelter within a mile of that explosion, you're getting rattled to death.

I was reading today that the human body is much more resistant to explosive damage than rigid structures. Because our bodies are much softer they are actually better at absorbing the blast. 

So a blast could shatter a window or tear up flimsier structures but leave a human relatively unscathed. 

[Hate 20108]

I thought the percussion from the explosion had a tendency to scramble brains. 

[jeevsie 3734]

The shockwave is the killer

[workswithseed 2109]

6 minutes ago, Hate said:

I thought the percussion from the explosion had a tendency to scramble brains. 

He deaf

[mulletpelini 5211]

1 hour ago, purplepride95 said:

 

Looks like bombs to me.

[Eastwood 4394]

35 minutes ago, ztejas said:

I was reading today that the human body is much more resistant to explosive damage than rigid structures. Because our bodies are much softer they are actually better at absorbing the blast. 

So a blast could shatter a window or tear up flimsier structures but leave a human relatively unscathed. 

Flimsier structures, sure. But to break up concrete like that requires a shock wave with 10 pounds per square inch of overpressure. That is equal to winds of 294 mph. I have a link to the CDC pdf that covers it, but I'm not sure how the board handles PDF links. 3 psi is enough to collapse a house, but fatalities aren't guaranteed.

[ztejas 43454]

10 minutes ago, Eastwood said:

Flimsier structures, sure. But to break up concrete like that requires a shock wave with 10 pounds per square inch of overpressure. That is equal to winds of 294 mph. I have a link to the CDC pdf that covers it, but I'm not sure how the board handles PDF links. 3 psi is enough to collapse a house, but fatalities aren't guaranteed.

I think you're overselling it still. If this thing killed everyone within a mile then the reported casualties are extremely low.

Just playing with this tool lhttps://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/) - even at the highest estimate I've seen of 1.3kt - the blast would drop below 5psi overpressure after about 500m. 

[Eastwood 4394]

3 minutes ago, ztejas said:

I think you're overselling it still. If this thing killed everyone within a mile then the reported casualties are extremely low.

Just playing with this tool lhttps://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/) - even at the highest estimate I've seen of 1.3kt - the blast would drop below 5psi overpressure after about 500m. 

Maybe. A lot of unknowns with this, still. Either he was closer than what people thought, the blast is bigger than what people are currently estimating, or he's just one really unlucky dude. RIP either way, unfortunately.

[Helobious 9454]

4 minutes ago, Eastwood said:

Maybe. A lot of unknowns with this, still. Either he was closer than what people thought, the blast is bigger than what people are currently estimating, or he's just one really unlucky dude. RIP either way, unfortunately.

Or he’s not dead just because some chick on twitter says he is. Also that vid doesn’t look like a livestream.

[staboner 4974]

jamming AF

[mulletpelini 5211]

2 hours ago, Helobious said:

Or he’s not dead just because some chick on twitter says he is. Also that vid doesn’t look like a livestream.

Oh he's not dead.  Not yet.

[Paco 1934]

[stork642 4498]

8 hours ago, ztejas said:

I think you're overselling it still. If this thing killed everyone within a mile then the reported casualties are extremely low.

Just playing with this tool lhttps://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/) - even at the highest estimate I've seen of 1.3kt - the blast would drop below 5psi overpressure after about 500m. 

Beirut officials brought in Chinese consultants to count the dead guaranteeing that the death count will be low.  

[Captainant 27677]

2 minutes ago, stork642 said:

Beirut officials brought in Chinese consultants to count the dead guaranteeing that the death count will be low.  

Well if they don't count then nobody actually died right?

Or is that just COVID?

[ztejas 43454]

10 minutes ago, Captainant said:

Well if they don't count then nobody actually died right?

Well if they're Chinese they don't count.

[stork642 4498]

14 minutes ago, Captainant said:

Well if they don't count then nobody actually died right?

Or is that just COVID?

Probably just managing the optics 2020 style.  This will be the new go to for all disasters going forward.  You know “we couldn’t have killed our own people if there are no dead bodies”

Edited August 5, 2020 by stork642

[Brisketexan 105147]

We have an acquaintance who lives in Beirut. They’re far enough away from the port that they’re ok, but her limited info shared with us is that it’s been and will be “devastating.”

 

Estimates of around 30,000 people homeless. And Lebanon imports most of its food - their grain stores are all at the port, and they all got destroyed. So, an expected food crisis in short order.

 

Seems like 2020 should really eat a dick.

[ztejas 43454]

9 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Estimates of around 30,000 people homeless

300,000*

[Guest Lobo]

Had any group or nation taken credit for the bomb yet?  Usually doesn’t take this long, at least some group that had nothing to do with it will stake a claim to boost their rep.  

[C-Man 27230]

10 hours ago, ztejas said:

I think you're overselling it still. If this thing killed everyone within a mile then the reported casualties are extremely low.

Just playing with this tool lhttps://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/) - even at the highest estimate I've seen of 1.3kt - the blast would drop below 5psi overpressure after about 500m. 

The explosion happened around 6/6:30 local time. It's in a warehouse area so makes me wonder how many lives were saved because it happened then and not during the heart of the day. Thinking many people might've already gone home. I do not know what kind of offices, residences or restaurants would be in the area either.

2 hours ago, Paco said:

 

Such a great movie. I posted a pic with this quote earlier. +rep for the actual vidjya!

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Wait for it, wait for it...27 seconds mark:

 

Edited August 5, 2020 by clapclapclap
Sadly, the mostly peaceful explosion (/CNN) killed this guy filming 100 miles away

[crash_davis 23113]

not sure if true. 

Good link confirming the picture.

 

Edited August 5, 2020 by crash_davis

[crash_davis 23113]

 

[Guest Lobo]

Wow.  Great photo.  What kind of a bomb could do that so tactically?   

[Nice Guy Eddie 13512]

5 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

not sure if true. 

Good link confirming the picture.

https://mobile.twitter.com/IntelCrab/status/1290782284686266372

Are they rolling dice with sodium nitrate bags as the wall?

[Trey3216 15346]

 

[crash_davis 23113]

2 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Are they rolling dice with sodium nitrate bags as the wall?

if you are going to wreck shit, do it right the first time.

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

Well, they have created a bigger harbor...so there's that.

[crash_davis 23113]

 

[Nice Guy Eddie 13512]

2 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

 

If you see a big explosion in the distance, step away from the windows. I know it's human nature to stare at something unexpected but bad idea jeans. 

[Guest Lobo]

We are much more hard wired by evolution to look in the direction of a loud noise to ascertain the problem and make a decision than we are to avoid glass because of shockwave fallout, something that’s basically rare and brand new in the grand scheme of human existence.  
 

what’s crazy though is all these footage vantage points and you can’t see the bomb attack from any of them.  That’s some impressive social media suppression.

[crash_davis 23113]

the source.

the risk was known.

 

 

[crash_davis 23113]

fucking lulz. of course Russians are involved.

https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/first-pictures-emerge-of-a-russian-businessman-whose-ammonium-nitrate-cargo-detonated-in-the-port-of-beirut/

 

The 2,750 tonnes cargo of Khabarovsk-born businessman Igor Grechushkin was detained in Lebanon in 2013.

Igor Grechushkin is reported to be still residing in Limassol, Cyprus with his wife. Picture: The Siberian Times

The Russian father of one, currently reported to be living in Limassol, Cyprus, was accused by the crew of his ship in abandoning both the people and the cargo. 

The ship called Rhosus was going under the flag of Moldova from Batumi in Georgia to Mozambique. It was detained in October 2013 by Lebanese authorities after it stopped in Beirut due to a malfunction on board. 

The cargo was checked and detained after the port authorities said it was ‘lacking documents and conditions necessary for transportation.’

The crew - eight Ukrainian and two Russian men - was forced to stay on board of the vessel while the owner Grechushkin declared himself bankrupt and ‘abandoned the ship’. 

Lebanese authorities agreed to let six out of ten sailors to leave the country, others were left stranded on the ship for almost a year. 

‘The owner of the ship Igor Grechushkin effectively abandoned the ship and the remaining crew.

'He is not providing us with money, he completely deprived us of all means of communication.

'He told us that he went bankrupt and while I don’t believe him, the most important thing is that he gave up on both the people and the cargo’, wrote captain Boris Prokoshev back in June 2014 in a desperate plea to international organisations, diplomats, authorities of Ukraine and the authorities of the port of Beirut to release them. 

[crash_davis 23113]

 

[Judge Roybeanbag 11819]

They should have just towed it back out to sea and "disposed" of it out there.

[crash_davis 23113]

25 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

Well, they have created a bigger harbor...so there's that.

and they already have a man made reef. how thoughtful.

 

[Guest]

31 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

Well, they have created a bigger harbor...so there's that.

Now a deep water port...

 

[Guest Lobo]

13 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

fucking lulz. of course Russians are involved.

https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/first-pictures-emerge-of-a-russian-businessman-whose-ammonium-nitrate-cargo-detonated-in-the-port-of-beirut/

 

The 2,750 tonnes cargo of Khabarovsk-born businessman Igor Grechushkin was detained in Lebanon in 2013.

Igor Grechushkin is reported to be still residing in Limassol, Cyprus with his wife. Picture: The Siberian Times

The Russian father of one, currently reported to be living in Limassol, Cyprus, was accused by the crew of his ship in abandoning both the people and the cargo. 

The ship called Rhosus was going under the flag of Moldova from Batumi in Georgia to Mozambique. It was detained in October 2013 by Lebanese authorities after it stopped in Beirut due to a malfunction on board. 

The cargo was checked and detained after the port authorities said it was ‘lacking documents and conditions necessary for transportation.’

The crew - eight Ukrainian and two Russian men - was forced to stay on board of the vessel while the owner Grechushkin declared himself bankrupt and ‘abandoned the ship’. 

Lebanese authorities agreed to let six out of ten sailors to leave the country, others were left stranded on the ship for almost a year. 

‘The owner of the ship Igor Grechushkin effectively abandoned the ship and the remaining crew.

'He is not providing us with money, he completely deprived us of all means of communication.

'He told us that he went bankrupt and while I don’t believe him, the most important thing is that he gave up on both the people and the cargo’, wrote captain Boris Prokoshev back in June 2014 in a desperate plea to international organisations, diplomats, authorities of Ukraine and the authorities of the port of Beirut to release them. 

I have to admit,  I don’t know...is “Siberian times” a reliable publication?   If it turns out any Russians had anything to do with this, I promise you with every dollar I can muster...the “attack” talk will stop immediately and an accidental narrative will take center stage and be proven out almost immediately.  

[WBT 20577]

25 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

fucking lulz. of course Russians are involved.

https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/first-pictures-emerge-of-a-russian-businessman-whose-ammonium-nitrate-cargo-detonated-in-the-port-of-beirut/

 

The 2,750 tonnes cargo of Khabarovsk-born businessman Igor Grechushkin was detained in Lebanon in 2013.

Igor Grechushkin is reported to be still residing in Limassol, Cyprus with his wife. Picture: The Siberian Times

The Russian father of one, currently reported to be living in Limassol, Cyprus, was accused by the crew of his ship in abandoning both the people and the cargo. 

The ship called Rhosus was going under the flag of Moldova from Batumi in Georgia to Mozambique. It was detained in October 2013 by Lebanese authorities after it stopped in Beirut due to a malfunction on board. 

The cargo was checked and detained after the port authorities said it was ‘lacking documents and conditions necessary for transportation.’

The crew - eight Ukrainian and two Russian men - was forced to stay on board of the vessel while the owner Grechushkin declared himself bankrupt and ‘abandoned the ship’. 

Lebanese authorities agreed to let six out of ten sailors to leave the country, others were left stranded on the ship for almost a year. 

‘The owner of the ship Igor Grechushkin effectively abandoned the ship and the remaining crew.

'He is not providing us with money, he completely deprived us of all means of communication.

'He told us that he went bankrupt and while I don’t believe him, the most important thing is that he gave up on both the people and the cargo’, wrote captain Boris Prokoshev back in June 2014 in a desperate plea to international organisations, diplomats, authorities of Ukraine and the authorities of the port of Beirut to release them. 

Season 2 of ZeroZeroZero is going to be amazing

[Cajun 11705]

1 hour ago, crash_davis said:

not sure if true. 

Good link confirming the picture.

 

What could go wrong?

[Dnaguy 11967]

14 hours ago, purplepride95 said:

 

 

1.) Would

2.) [Me seeing the upshot and balcony profile] - Would X 10

3.) [Photographer at shoot]:

Edited August 5, 2020 by Dnaguy

[Hagbard Celine 10866]

2 hours ago, Lobo said:

Had any group or nation taken credit for the bomb yet?  Usually doesn’t take this long, at least some group that had nothing to do with it will stake a claim to boost their rep.  

[Surly Bevo 24923]

1 hour ago, crash_davis said:

 

Little kid in the first video handled it like a boss....window blows smack into his face, doesn't even appear to be crying.

[AUS-97HORN 11765]

3 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

Little kid in the first video handled it like a boss....window blows smack into his face, doesn't even appear to be crying.

probably because he was stunned by the sound and pressure waves and hes just trying to remember his fucking name