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Beirut Blast: How Many Kilotons?
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| August 5, 2020
| Lawrence Person
Posted on 08/05/2020 12:32:04 PM PDT by C19fan
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posted on
08/05/2020 12:32:04 PM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
I misread the title as “How Many Klintons” and got excited for a second.
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posted on
08/05/2020 12:36:59 PM PDT
by
decal
(I'm not rude, I don't suffer fools is all.)
To: C19fan
I read through the article and the level he came up with was 1.98 kt.
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posted on
08/05/2020 12:39:12 PM PDT
by
hoagy62
(DTCM&OTTH)
To: C19fan
—I’ll stick with my tagline—
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posted on
08/05/2020 12:40:44 PM PDT
by
rellimpank
(--don't believe anything the meda or government says about firearms or explosives--)
To: C19fan
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posted on
08/05/2020 12:41:18 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: C19fan
Do we know what caused the blast yet?
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posted on
08/05/2020 12:41:45 PM PDT
by
thefactor
(yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
To: C19fan
CNN reports it was 2,750 metric tons of ammonium nitrate. Let’s say AN and TNT are equivalent in energy/weight (they aren’t). So 2750 metric tons is 2.750 kilotons.
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posted on
08/05/2020 12:42:33 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: C19fan
Does it differentiate between a ground blast and an overhead blast? I would think the latter would break windows a lot further away.
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posted on
08/05/2020 12:45:23 PM PDT
by
gundog
( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
To: hoagy62
Which is pretty close to 2700 tons (2.7kT) of explosive Ammonium Nitrate................
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posted on
08/05/2020 12:45:42 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(To a liberal, 9-11 was 'illegal fireworks activity'...........................)
To: thefactor
Some say a welder................
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posted on
08/05/2020 12:46:20 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(To a liberal, 9-11 was 'illegal fireworks activity'...........................)
To: C19fan
the lying media said ‘contrary to what Trump claimed’
Trump didn’t claim anything- he said ‘from everything I’ve been told, they say it’s a bomb’
The media wanted to make out like Trump was lying about the blast- but Trump never claimed anything- He just repeated what experts were telling him=-
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posted on
08/05/2020 12:46:31 PM PDT
by
Bob434
To: C19fan
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posted on
08/05/2020 12:47:44 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(To a liberal, 9-11 was 'illegal fireworks activity'...........................)
To: thefactor
Thought I saw something of those careless welders nearby. We used AN when I worked at a gypsum plant in NM years ago to bust up the gypsum rock walls. They could have just gone down to white sands..............................
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posted on
08/05/2020 12:48:58 PM PDT
by
rktman
( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: hoagy62
Such an amazingly high number, at 1.98 kilotons that’s getting into the range of small nukes. Hiroshima was 15 kilotons, this is 13% of the blast energy of Hiroshima.
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posted on
08/05/2020 12:49:57 PM PDT
by
Texan Tory
(Laissez rouler les bons temps!)
To: hoagy62
I think thats right. .95 conversion rate to TNT.
I suspect a lot of it was dispersed and didnt blow up.
It also looked like a strangely slow explosion.
Ive seen my share of true HE explosions, and the wave is much faster.
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posted on
08/05/2020 12:50:18 PM PDT
by
Jewbacca
(The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
To: Bob434
Trump didnt claim anything- he said from everything Ive been told, they say its a bomb. I noticed that right away too. Fox News joined the chorus.
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posted on
08/05/2020 12:53:28 PM PDT
by
luvbach1
(I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
To: Red Badger
Somehow, watching that blast never gets old.
It’s amazing how FAST it went.
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posted on
08/05/2020 12:54:55 PM PDT
by
metmom
( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
To: C19fan
To: C19fan
This 2,700+ tons of AN (in super-sacks) has been in this warehouse over 6 years. What was so special about yesterday that it went off?
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posted on
08/05/2020 12:57:54 PM PDT
by
umgud
To: umgud
This 2,700+ tons of AN (in super-sacks) has been in this warehouse over 6 years. What was so special about yesterday that it went off? I'm trying to figure out why it was stored there, and that way, in the first place.
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posted on
08/05/2020 1:14:10 PM PDT
by
BerryDingle
(I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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