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2,750 Tonnes Of Ammonium Nitrate Exploded: Lebanon PM On Beirut Blasts
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| 08.04.2020
| WorldAgence France-Presse
Posted on 08/04/2020 3:55:29 PM PDT by rxsid
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Comment #41 Removed by Moderator
To: rxsid
Where’s the “Explosion spell!” girl?
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posted on
08/04/2020 4:22:38 PM PDT
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: rxsid
One of the videos I saw had sound.
There was a fire and it sounded like small arms rounds cooking off.
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posted on
08/04/2020 4:23:35 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
To: gr8eman
Rhetorical Question: Who stores 2,700 tons of any explosive in a downtown port?
Actually had a ship full of it explode in texas some
years ago. Compacted it gets unstable.
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posted on
08/04/2020 4:24:48 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: rxsid
It was not an ammonium nitrate explosion.
NO SALE..
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posted on
08/04/2020 4:25:38 PM PDT
by
Texas Fossil
((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
To: gr8eman
“Who stores 2,700 tons of any explosive in a downtown port?”
Pretty typical in any third-world country. This or similar total lack of safety awareness.
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posted on
08/04/2020 4:26:24 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
To: rxsid
They had 3000 tons of fertilizer sitting in a warehouse for six years?
Guess they were having bumper crops without it.
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posted on
08/04/2020 4:27:37 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
To: blueunicorn6
“There was a fire and it sounded like small arms rounds cooking off.”
Those were fireworks, stored in the same or adjacent warehouse. These might have ignited the large explosion.
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posted on
08/04/2020 4:28:33 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
To: rxsid
The reason the Bridge at Remagen survived the backup explosion when the primary one failed to work was they didnt have military grade explosives and were forced to use commercial explosives.
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posted on
08/04/2020 4:28:37 PM PDT
by
yarddog
( For I am persuaded.)
To: rxsid
I have a friend whose daughter and son in law live in Cyprus. They heard the explosion from the beach in Cyprus.
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posted on
08/04/2020 4:31:32 PM PDT
by
dforest
To: dforest
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posted on
08/04/2020 4:34:12 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: dforest
Siri says that is 150 miles away, does that sound right? OMG
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posted on
08/04/2020 4:35:02 PM PDT
by
GnuThere
To: VanShuyten
It is unacceptable that a shipment of 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate has been present for six years in a warehouse... Ammonium Nitrate is very hygroscopic (absorbs water from humidity). After 6 years in a warehouse near the ocean...
No, don't believe that story.
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posted on
08/04/2020 4:35:56 PM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
To: GnuThere
They have no reason to lie. Sound carries over water.
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posted on
08/04/2020 4:36:13 PM PDT
by
dforest
To: EEGator
Must be nice. Our HOA restricts it to a ton.
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posted on
08/04/2020 4:36:32 PM PDT
by
GnuThere
To: KittenClaws
70 dead and over 2,700 injured. Lebanon has 7 million people.
The US has 330 million people. Adjusting for population, the US equivalent for what happened in Beirut today would be 3,290 dead and 126,900 injured.
33% of Lebanon is Christian. I doubt they were dancing in the streets on 9/11.
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posted on
08/04/2020 4:37:04 PM PDT
by
kabar
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posted on
08/04/2020 4:38:34 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: dforest
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posted on
08/04/2020 4:38:48 PM PDT
by
GnuThere
To: KittenClaws
Every Lebanese I ever knew was a Christian.
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posted on
08/04/2020 4:40:15 PM PDT
by
Mears
(..)
To: kaehurowing
The EMP from a nuke would have likely made it un video-able from most of the close angles.
A little John Tactical Nuke was 1 to 10 Kilotons, so the explosive force was the range of a small, tactical nuke.
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posted on
08/04/2020 4:40:41 PM PDT
by
UNGN
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