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3 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

That one building got leveled for sure....not a small building either

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reading that cars 6 miles away were flipped upside down.

on google maps to see how far I am from the Port of Houston.  10 miles...

4 minutes ago, ztejas said:

Yeah, fertilizer doesn't do that. If anyone wants to take me up on a wager I'm game. It had to be a perfect (or imperfect) mixture of atmospheric oxygen and pressurized fuel - either on board or nearby.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermobaric_weapon

A mechanical failure or fuel leak that allows flammable fumes to fill the hull of a ship basically turns it into a floating fuel air bomb. Japan lost two recoverable carriers in WWII that way, but the speed of the shockwave really seems like a high explosive, not a slow moving firework or thermobaric explosion

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52 minutes ago, bluto said:

Ship of fireworks per govt

Cargo headed to the Hezbollah Innocent Fireworks for Children Warehouse and Baby Milk Factory? 

What Week 2 of the college football season is going to look like. 

Texas City Disaster footage.

Explosion at 20 seconds.

 

8 minutes ago, MadBurgerMaker said:

 

That’s an awful lot of munitions going off with none apparently headed at or near the cameraman. 

But my money would be on whatever the cargo was damaging the fuel system of the vessel, and the fuel/air mixture rising until it hit its LEL. Then big boom. 

There are two angles that show some interesting things. One close to the building you can hear what sounds like machine gun fire going off, suggesting munitions fire exploding. On one of the higher up videos you can see many reactions going off before the big explosion. It keep getting hotter and hotter, or bigger explosions were happening within the fire before very big explosion. 

i dont mind being called an idiot when the full truth comes out. but those tiny explosions "that look like munitions"  in reality look exactly like a pre-massive explosion in a fireworks factory.

 

small munitions, like ammo dont explode like that in the air unless they have had a massive explosion throwing them in the air.

heres what an ammo dump munitions explosion looks like.     Notice that all the items flying around have contrails behind them. its not unitl the BIG explosion that you see small ammo exploding in the air. 

 

Thats not what we see in the Beirut video.  In the Beirut video we see shitloads of small explosions where lit items jump into the air and explode. exactly like you see in a fireworks factory explosion.no contrails.  As soon as the big explosion happened in Beirut, all the small ones stopped.    exactly opposite the video above where most of the small ones really only happen after the large explosion

 

Here you can see the explosions reacting off each other from within...but still looks like it hit something a lot bigger

 

I'm not buying the fireworks angle. Sure, there were fireworks there, but I think there was something else in that warehouse. Not claiming anyone is an idiot for believing otherwise, but I just can't wrap my brain around an explosion like that being from just fireworks. It takes a large amount of human error (West/Texas City) or malice to get something like that .

8 minutes ago, Dr. Beeper said:

Marine office mate swears the building blown up is a Hezbollah munitions depot. 

Maybe so.  I don't know who that DannyNis dude is, just posted it for the video.  

maybe it's both. fire started with fireworks which is next to and ignited munitions?

Key takeaway:  I should buy a concrete house.

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3 minutes ago, Bobby_Batronic said:

Shipping container full of tannerite and one Beirutian redneck with a gun imoho. 

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1 hour ago, Doc Reeves said:

Yup. My uncle studied at the America University there and lived there right before things went to shit. It was an Arab jewel, so naturally angry forces had to pound it into sand

I just read the other day that Steve Kerr's dad was the president of the university there until he was murdered/assassinated outside of his office back in the 80s

I’m seeing a lot of speculation that this was a Hezbollah weapons stockpile that went up

I'm surprised those silos are still standing.

1 minute ago, elguapo said:

I’m seeing a lot of speculation that this was a Hezbollah weapons stockpile that went up

Quick question.  Been out of the loop for a while about all the goings on in the region.  

Let's just say it was.  Who's responsible?  Or accidental?

1 minute ago, Rip76 said:

Quick question.  Been out of the loop for a while about all the goings on in the region.  

Let's just say it was.  Who's responsible?  Or accidental?

If any shit is happening in the region impacting any country not named Israel, then it's safe to assume that Israel is responsible.

Just now, crash_davis said:

If any shit is happening in the region impacting any country not named Israel, then it's safe to assume that Israel is responsible.

Or accidental.

1 minute ago, Rip76 said:

Or accidental.

or accidentally on purpose.

i keed.

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41 minutes ago, Captainant said:

A mechanical failure or fuel leak that allows flammable fumes to fill the hull of a ship basically turns it into a floating fuel air bomb. Japan lost two recoverable carriers in WWII that way, but the speed of the shockwave really seems like a high explosive, not a slow moving firework or thermobaric explosion

On further review I think it was ammonium nitrate going off that set off a bunch of grain and who knows what else to basically create a mega FAE. 

So I guess it was in part a "fertilizer" explosion.

Don't know how legit this guy is, but it's another theory

 

11 minutes ago, WBT said:

I just read the other day that Steve Kerr's dad was the president of the university there until he was murdered/assassinated outside of his office back in the 80s

And Arizona State fans taunted him about it (chanting "P. L. O." and "Your Father's History!") during a game shortly thereafter. 

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-03-01-sp-257-story.html

47 minutes ago, MadBurgerMaker said:

 

So... that person is dead.

Oh, and please leave your anti-Semitic Israel takes at the door or take them to CR. 

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1 minute ago, Neonmoon said:

Don't know how legit this guy is, but it's another theory

 

 

Seems suspicious?

3 minutes ago, ztejas said:

So... that person is dead.

If they're not, they need to swing by the nearest still-standing convenience store and pick up some lotto tickets. 

1 hour ago, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:

 

also of note, beirut is an awesome city full of unbelievably good looking women. 

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14 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

Don't know how legit this guy is, but it's another theory

 

Seems like a bad idea storing high-explosive confiscated materials in one place "for years", but who knows.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hariri/crisis-weary-lebanon-braces-for-hariri-tribunal-verdict-idUSKCN2500JU

WORLD NEWS

AUGUST 4, 2020 / 1:05 AM / UPDATED 7 HOURS AGO

Crisis-weary Lebanon braces for Hariri tribunal verdict

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Fifteen years after a truck bomb killed Lebanon’s former Sunni leader Rafik al-Hariri in Beirut, triggering regional upheaval, a U.N.-backed court trying four suspects from Shi’ite Hezbollah delivers a verdict on Friday that could shake the country again.

The defendants, members of the powerful Iran-backed group, have been tried in absentia on charges of planning and arranging the 2005 bombing which killed the former prime minister who spearheaded Lebanon’s reconstruction after its long civil war.

Hariri’s assassination prompted mass protests in Beirut and a wave of international pressure which forced Syria to end its 29-year military presence in Lebanon after the U.N. investigator linked it with the bombing.

The assassination also inflamed political and sectarian tensions inside Lebanon and across the Middle East, particularly when investigators started probing potential Hezbollah links to the death of a politician who was backed by the West as well as Sunni Gulf Arab states opposed to Tehran.

Hezbollah, which is both a political party in Lebanon’s government and a heavily armed guerrilla group, denies any role in Hariri’s killing and dismisses the Netherlands-based tribunal as politicised. (snip)

 

RIP

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Wild how the explosion blew out any fire that was there initially.

One things for certain, bombs don’t produce that deep red smoke hue.   So all the twittertards can chill on this being a bombing.   This was certainly a chemical explosion.  It mentioned sodium nitrate, which when heated creates Sodium Nitrite and pure oxygen.   Takes 1000degreesF to do it, but pure oxygen in quantity will create a spectacle.  

2 minutes ago, woohorn said:

Wild how the explosion blew out any fire that was there initially.

Red Adair says hai

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