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Jesus christ I totally missed the news but my god this is an insane blast. RIP to all who died, if they believe in Allah may their souls be with him and if they believe in Christ I hope they are in heaven.

Holy shit :S
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Re: Rip to all Lebanese people who got killed from this explosion :(
« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2020, 01:53:34 PM »
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Re: Rip to all Lebanese people who got killed from this explosion :(
« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2020, 03:50:37 PM »
Yeah, 2700 tons of ammonia nitrate will do that. :fbm

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Oklahoma City bombing was about 3 tons.

The West, Texas explosion was about 300 tons.

The 1947 Texas City disaster was a comparable amount, and killed over 500 people and nearly destroyed the whole town.
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Re: Rip to all Lebanese people who got killed from this explosion :(
« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2020, 04:17:16 PM »
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/world/middleeast/beirut-lebanon-explosion.html

Satellite images are pretty incredible. View in Incognito mode if paywalled.


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Re: Rip to all Lebanese people who got killed from this explosion :(
« Reply #4 on: August 05, 2020, 05:05:05 PM »
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The blast at the port, which was essentially flattened, also destroyed or damaged grain silos that store 85 percent of Lebanon’s grain.

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Re: Rip to all Lebanese people who got killed from this explosion :(
« Reply #5 on: August 05, 2020, 05:16:37 PM »
If only there were an old adage that warns against doing such a thing.

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Re: Rip to all Lebanese people who got killed from this explosion :(
« Reply #7 on: August 05, 2020, 05:40:15 PM »
Here’s a livestream someone was taking right before the first explosion, right next to the warehouse.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/i40gp3/beirut_explosion_caught_on_camera_a_few_feet_away/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

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Re: Rip to all Lebanese people who got killed from this explosion :(
« Reply #8 on: August 05, 2020, 05:47:36 PM »
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/world/middleeast/beirut-lebanon-explosion.html

Satellite images are pretty incredible. View in Incognito mode if paywalled.

That loophole has been closed for a while now. Sucks.

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Re: Rip to all Lebanese people who got killed from this explosion :(
« Reply #9 on: August 05, 2020, 06:27:36 PM »
destroyed 85% of their grain stores, jesus  :-\

pretty wild thread about it https://twitter.com/AuroraIntel/status/1290789726283345926
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Re: Rip to all Lebanese people who got killed from this explosion :(
« Reply #11 on: August 08, 2020, 09:32:27 PM »
By the way, how is it legal to abandon a ship with a kajillion explosives? Like how does that go down? I'm talking about the ship owner, not the abandoned crew.

That whole aspect of this tragedy is incomprehensible to me. I understand that apparently that material could also be used for some agriculture (I think that was other possible use right?) The ship was heading to some African country, but then something didn't work out or whatever so they ended up in Lebanon with all this material but no place to put it as they had no power in that regard, because the initial shipment plan fell through and on top of that the ring leader decided to just say "fuck it and fuck you, I'm rich hahaha. You're on your own while I get my dick sucked in Cyprus." What?

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Re: Rip to all Lebanese people who got killed from this explosion :(
« Reply #12 on: August 08, 2020, 09:33:50 PM »
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Re: Rip to all Lebanese people who got killed from this explosion :(
« Reply #13 on: August 08, 2020, 09:49:00 PM »
From what I understand the oligarch who owned the vessel went bankrupt, plus they were based out of Cyprus which is up there with Malta and, well, Lebanon on the "good luck getting accountability" scale.

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Re: Rip to all Lebanese people who got killed from this explosion :(
« Reply #14 on: August 08, 2020, 09:51:14 PM »
I'm looking at the Wikipedia of the incident and I like how the boat was also allowed to just sink in the harbor in 2018.

This whole thing makes my brain hurt

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Re: Rip to all Lebanese people who got killed from this explosion :(
« Reply #15 on: August 08, 2020, 10:05:33 PM »
Dozens of bags of fireworks were stored in the same hangar as thousands of tonnes of ammonium nitrate at Beirut’s port

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Re: Rip to all Lebanese people who got killed from this explosion :(
« Reply #18 on: August 09, 2020, 10:08:59 AM »
Yeah, 2700 tons of ammonia nitrate will do that. :fbm

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Oklahoma City bombing was about 3 tons.

The West, Texas explosion was about 300 tons.

The 1947 Texas City disaster was a comparable amount, and killed over 500 people and nearly destroyed the whole town.
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Tianjin Port was about 800 tons. 2015

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Re: Rip to all Lebanese people who got killed from this explosion :(
« Reply #19 on: August 09, 2020, 10:28:19 AM »
A hospital one mile from the blast was decimated. Here’s an interview with one of the doctors talking about it.

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/08/900536495/doctor-beirut-explosion-strains-hospitals


Also, here’s a new angle of the explosion. Pretty jaw dropping.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/i6drec/new_angle_of_beirut_explosion/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf


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Re: Rip to all Lebanese people who got killed from this explosion :(
« Reply #20 on: August 09, 2020, 02:28:38 PM »
Same thing happened in Toulouse, France in 2001 (just a few days after 9/11). I don't think there's any footage of the explosion itself.

IIRC it was "only" a couple hundred tons of ammonium nitrate that blew up, but the damage was insane. It left a massive crater, tons of buildings were heavily damaged and windows were shattered miles from the explosion. If there was ~10 times that much in Beirut, no wonder so much stuff got obliterated.

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Re: Rip to all Lebanese people who got killed from this explosion :(
« Reply #21 on: August 09, 2020, 05:46:36 PM »
Echo, here are some more info about the owner.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/igor-grechushkin-beirut-port-russia-floating-bomb-ammonium-nitrate-a9657816.html

The Indy is owned by an ex-KGB family (who also own the Evening Standard because Britain has a press whose freedom is more form than substance) so keep that in mind.