>>26810
Here is the datasheet for those bags. If you also study the windows at the back, they match the description of the building before it went up.

Thanks is it August 4th again?

Warehouse from a different side just before it went up.

>>26812
That picture came out on Telegram about an hour ago, so no.

While I assume, and hope, they aren't stacking explosive materials so haphazardly, these videos are making me somewhat uncomfortable about living under a kilometer away from a munitions factory.

Poor, bloody Lebanese though. They've had a year of hell and it's not as though their recent history has been a bed of roses up until now. I've heard many times recently about how Lebanon produces little, notably food, and imports a great deal. Imports that specifically come through what is now a smouldering ruin.

>>26817
Agreed - I know a few Lebanese people and they are absolute sweethearts of the highest order. My grandparents and my mother spoke extremely highly of Beirut in the sixties when they spent time there - it's a very pale shadow of the place it was.

The devastation is incredible.

>>26817
Munitions factories and the like are usually built like bunkers for in the event it does go up it will most likely be contained.
This was caused by having a shitload of Ammonium Nitrate in a sheet metal building.

Honestly surprising it never went up sooner.

>>26820
https://shiparrested.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/The-Arrest-News-11th-issue.pdf

This is illuminating - on about the third page, it talks about 2013 when the original ship carrying this cargo was impounded. I mean sure, keeping it in a shitty warehouse is one thing, leaving it there for almost 7 years is the real crime.

>>26833
Picture of the original ship.

Didn't Breivik also use ammonium nitrate in his bombs that did some damage to the Oslo city centre?

I think part of the plot to make his bombs was that he registered his home as an agricultural facility, which enabled him to bypass safety laws at the time and order it in large quantities.

>>26840
Many of the big IRA bombs in the 90's, notably the Bishopsgate bombing, Manchester Arndale and Canary Wharf were trucks loaded up with ammonium nitrate. It's obviously quite difficult to buy the stuff now, without having a bona fide use for it and making enquiries is definitely going to get you on a list somewhere.

Sheffield university reckons the blast was between 1-1.5 kt making it the most powerful non nuclear explosion ever. To give an idea of Scale the most powerful conventional bomb the US has the MOBA is 0.011 kt and the Hiroshima bomb was 16 kt

>>26847
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion

2.9 kT

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppau_explosion

1-2 kT


It's definitely up there, but it's easily outdone by Halifax.

>>26847

I've read a few descriptions of pre-nuclear TNT explosions and accidents and I would have put it less than a kt eyeballing it, but easily .5 kt. If they are saying it's bigger then fuck sake. How do you fuck up THAT bad?

We were bored at work today and we spent about an hour cross referencing the Google Maps photos of the area, with photos of the aftermath. You really have to get a sense of the scale to appreciate how fuck huge this explosion was.

Absolutely, shockingly massive, I feel sorry for any cunt who was nearby at the time. The videos you can see of it are all well within range to get yourself killed by debris, so it's amazing more weren't killed.

Look at this picture of a tiny fire engine next to the gigantic Fallout style crater.

There are photos from the incident that look near enough like a small nuclear bomb mushroom cloud.

There were nuclear devices during the Cold War which had a yield of around 1 kT and which were intended to be deployed by one person carrying it as a backpack, mainly for low-level tactical and operational purposes such as taking out small military installations or bridges and dams. The idea was that you would parachute into enemy territory and then set a timer for it to go off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Atomic_Demolition_Munition

>>26854
It's just the shape of an explosion on the ground. A warehouse stacked to the rafters with ammonium nitrate isn't going to dampen the explosion at all, what else would it look like?

>>26854
>that look near enough like a small nuclear bomb mushroom cloud.
Almost any large enough explosion will have a mushroom cloud. It does not mean it's nuclear.

>>26854

Watch the video lad, it does indeed resemble a mushroom cloud (or footage you may have seen of nuclear test explosions)- For all of about three seconds. It's quite shocking to behold but it's definitely a normal explosion, just a fuck off massive one. Again, properly massive.

Something about how an actual nuke sustains fission or summat is why it has that long, billowing mushroom chimney effect. Interesting stuff actually.

>>26861
A mushroom cloud is formed by a combination of intense heat and the effect of the shock wave. It is particularly pronounced when the explosion has two stages (as most nuclear bombs do) but is nothing at all unique to atomic chemistry - any large explosion that is big enough, and has multiple stages, will look like that.

>>26854
>There were nuclear devices during the Cold War which had a yield of around 1 kT and which were intended to be deployed by one person carrying it as a backpack

My favourite nuclear device is the Davy Crockett also known as the W28. It had a range of 1.5 - 2.5 miles. Was almost certain to kill the person firing it initially, if not soon after from radiation. They even designed little Wilys Jeeps that could carry them and do similar - obviously they didn't tell the troops training/operating them this would happen.

A monumentally stupid weapon, but admirable all the same.

>>26863

You would at least have had to take cover behind a hill or a solid structure to not be burned or blinded by the flash. A lot of people think the damage from a nuclear bomb only comes from the blast wave and 600 mph hot winds. But there is plenty of energy already in the initial flash, enough to burn the skin off your bones in fractions of a second just from the heat radiation if you're within a certain radius.

The only consolation is that in a nuclear war, you probably wouldn't have lived long either way as a combat soldier. There were projections that the average NATO or Warsaw Pact soldier in central Europe would have had a survival time of only a few hours after the start of a full on nuclear exchange. Even command personnel were expected to be mostly dead after a day or two.

Got the buggers.

>>26889 fucking hell! that's a bit much isn't it?

>>26889

Never piss off a pensioner.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKOjpGmF1_o

>>26891
Can we nuke the West Riding?

>>26908

Which one?

>>26891
>I would've gone home and got a bag!

There's something about this whole story I don't quite trust.

>>26911

Who wouldn't come back to scrape their dog's arse piss off a rain soaked pavement.

>>26909
All "Wests" like Fred and Germany are the same. Same with West Yorkshire, then I read the video description and discovered this is Madchester, which can also be nuked.

>>26921
Fuck West Moseley!

>>26921


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzEL9RvM9SA

>>26921
This is a delightfully unhinged post. Well done.

>>26983
Another delightfully unhinged post.
(His, not yours).

>>26984
But all other stories are lies!

>>26992
It's the confidence of these people that impresses me the most. Zero self-doubt whatsoever.

>>26921

I was mainly just confused why you thought it was the wonderful rhubarb laden valley of that name, when they're quite clearly Manc as fuck from the moment they start speaking.

>>26993
What annoys me is the same confidence of the people who insist nothing unusual is going on. I get that we're mostly all losers around here and that hearing 'open your mind' is catalyst to numbing it, but too many ideas are dismissed as nonsense for what appears to be no genuine reason.
[/spoiler]Yes, i posted the one in /x/[/spoiler]

>>27010
>/x/
er, /boo/. Showing my roots it seems.

>>27011
Pretty much the same thing if you see the state of most of the women posted on there.

>>27010
>but too many ideas are dismissed as nonsense for what appears to be no genuine reason

Can you name one of them? I am sure your "but it could be true!" is my "No because that would require a 100,000 people to keep a secret, most of which wouldn't want to".

>>27010
>open your mind

Most conspiracy theories (including the one you suggested) are death defyingly stupid - you don't have to be "open minded" to believe or consider them, you mostly need to be a bit dim. That's a genuine reason too.