Did anyone see this explosion in Beirut? Holy Crap!!!

[Nitrogen]

That explosion was about 2% of the strength of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

(most) Modern nukes are anywhere from 1000 to 2000x as strong as the Hiroshima bomb. (Soviets built one years ago 3000x more powerful. Tsar Bomba)

The numbers are hard to fathom or even imagine.

One of the (few) reasons you haven't seen a bombing/invasion of North Korea.

[KVB]

...The numbers are hard to fathom or even imagine...

Boy, you said brother...^^^That Tsar bomb had the power of all the explosives used in WWII times 10.

Equal to 58 million tons of TNT.

[KVB]

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Dude, the facts in this video are insane.

They could still measure the blast wave on it's 3rd passage around the world.

Un-fukkin-believable

[Nitrogen]

Boy, you said brother...^^^That Tsar bomb had the power of all the explosives used in WWII times 10.

The shock wave could be measured anywhere on earth....the THIRD TIME it went around the earth.

Check this out

https://www.theverge.com/2013/9/21/4755600/us-atomic-bomb-north-carolina-accident-1961

And this guy should have monuments dedicated to him in every country.

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

[KVB]

...https://www.theverge.com/2013/9/21/4...-accident-1961...

Seems like I remember reading about that.

Here's the meat of it for other readers...

...In North Carolina, the two atomic bombs were released after a B-52 airplane carrying the payload went into a tailspin during a routine test flight — one of the bombs eventually landed in a tree, and the other in a meadow, The Guardian says.

The document says the bombs should have detonated — parachutes were deployed and triggers were armed, but one low-voltage switch failed to activate as it should have, preventing what would have been devastating and widespread damage...

[Nitrogen]

Seems like I remember reading about that.

Here's the meat of it for other readers...

Regardless of who is/was the leader - there is absolutely ZERO chance they would have been willing to admit this was a f*ck up on our part. Both instances I linked to would have brought on WW3.

[darrell74]

[Ebumdude]

https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEK9Pf1u7mGJbTcczmiPHZ3oqGQgEKhAIACoHCAowjsP7CjCSpPQCMM_b5QU?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen

[Fred The Hammer]

https://youtu.be/m-Wccy-Mijg

0:13 Beirut

[DwightShrute]

[Thrilla]

Beirut explosion - Multi-angle footage

[KVB]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Satellite �� imagery of Beirut explosion �� <a href="https://t.co/8noguEKYNu">pic.twitter.com/8noguEKYNu</a></p>&mdash; Domenico (@AvatarDomy) <a href="https://twitter.com/AvatarDomy/status/1291853528206585860?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" >August 7, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

[Auto Donk]

wonderful vid.... reminded me of those russian military vids the "phony" russian rocket used to post after the real russian rocket vanished from the scene.......

[Auto Donk]

bay root? (as r.d. mercer would say, and did say, to some dusty nuts bus driver he pranked years ago, trying to be cocky with Roy, when ol RD threatened to whoop his ass for driving too fast and causing her beanie babies to be "squooshed")....

the camel jockey said something about "you ever been to beirut?", to which roy responded, "bay root, what is that, something you put in your hair??? nah, I ain't never heard of bay rupe".

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