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08-04-2020, 01:40 PM
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Years ago I recall reading if you happen to be looking directly at a traditional nuke when it goes off the flash is bright enough to blind you (permanently.)
Also, the shockwave from a traditional nuke carries heat. As in hot enough to burn anything in its path (buildings, cars, people, etc.)
Definitely a serious explosion. But based on the video, I don't think this was a traditional nuke. (Unless it was a really tiny one.)
That said, if it was a nuke, crews on the ground will know once they start measuring for radiation.
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08-04-2020, 01:44 PM
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Originally Posted by xtb
It does look like a nuke but the mushroom cloud dissipated very quickly. Could it be from the sonic boom? When aircraft break the sound barrier, there is a similar cloud that appears briefly.
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I'm hearing it hit near water and part of that is a water plume.
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08-04-2020, 02:09 PM
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Fireworks...yeah...and Trump is a russian agent...and COVID-19(84) has a 6% CFR....
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08-04-2020, 02:15 PM
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08-04-2020, 02:25 PM
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Talking "tons of nitrate"
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08-04-2020, 02:28 PM
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08-04-2020, 02:30 PM
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08-04-2020, 02:37 PM
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Bunker buster?
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08-04-2020, 03:01 PM
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they invoke but that looks nothing like the aftermath of a nuclear blast the size of hiroshima or nagasaki
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08-04-2020, 03:08 PM
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08-04-2020, 03:11 PM
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Originally Posted by GMB@BP
they invoke but that looks nothing like the aftermath of a nuclear blast the size of hiroshima or nagasaki
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Obviously, we're talking (theoretically) of a much smaller kiloton yield vs. bombs dropped on Japan in WW2. So of course it wouldn't have the same devastation....
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08-04-2020, 03:12 PM
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Yeah, the fireworks thing has been debunked...
Fireworks don't knock out windows 10km away and flip cars over...
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08-04-2020, 03:17 PM
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I would by the nitrate explosion and its what I thought of when I saw it in the video. Remember only a small van of sodium nitrate blew up half of a federal building once and this might have been a much bigger cache of chemical.
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08-04-2020, 03:36 PM
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Originally Posted by GMB@BP
I would by the nitrate explosion and its what I thought of when I saw it in the video. Remember only a small van of sodium nitrate blew up half of a federal building once and this might have been a much bigger cache of chemical.
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sorry, ammonium nitrate.
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08-04-2020, 05:12 PM
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Beirut explosion generated seismic waves equivalent of a magnitude 3.3 earthquake
From CNN's Paul P. Murphy and Judson Jones
Data collected by the United States Geological Survey shows that the massive explosion in Beirut was so powerful, it created seismic waves equivalent of a magnitude 3.3 earthquake.
However, the magnitude 3.3 equivalent isn't, "directly comparable to an earthquake of similar size."
That's because surface type blasts, like the Beirut explosion, don't produce as large a magnitude as an earthquake of similar energy would according to Don Blakeman, a geophysicist at the National Earthquake Information Center. Blakeman said most of the energy goes into the air and buildings.
"Not enough of the energy is transmitted into the rocks in the ground," he said.
Meaning, if the explosion had occurred below the surface of the earth, the magnitude would have registered even higher.
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https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-...ntl/index.html
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