Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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by artappraiser on Tue, 08/04/2020 - 5:31pm
video of explosion:
by artappraiser on Tue, 08/04/2020 - 6:49pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 08/04/2020 - 6:54pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 08/04/2020 - 6:57pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 08/04/2020 - 8:54pm
Just a side note that some may not know. Ammonium nitrate is a great fertilizer. There were probably thousands of farmers in Lebanon that were wishing year after year that they could afford to buy it to put on their fields. Whether bureaucratic snafu or legal limbo left it there we don't know, but they would have had no trouble finding farmers to put it on their fields.
by ocean-kat on Tue, 08/04/2020 - 9:26pm
D.O.D.: The president makes shit up:
by artappraiser on Tue, 08/04/2020 - 9:12pm
MSNBC anchor just started his segment on the story with an interesting comparison: Tim McVeigh used 2 tons of ammonium nitrate to do all the damage he did, and this was 2,700 tons.
by artappraiser on Tue, 08/04/2020 - 10:39pm
meant to put as reply to oceankat, posted in wrong place but I will leave it here. & add to it. He interviewed a Prof. expert on Lebanon (@ Kennedy School) right now and he says the devastation is "like a nuclear bomb" that he was there for the 2005 Hariri bombing in Beirut and this is like 200 times more damage. Wikipedia says of that one Explosives equivalent to around 1,000 kilograms (2,200 pounds) of TNT were detonated
by artappraiser on Tue, 08/04/2020 - 10:49pm
I did some google research about the makeup of fertilizer bombs after the OKC bombing to supplement my high school chemistry. I never ran across the idea that ammonium nitrate alone would explode but apparently it can. From what is being reported now it seems apparent that for it to do so requires a narrow set of conditions be met. Because ammonium nitrate’s ratio of elements is high in oxygen it needs additional fuel to get the highest potential explosion from a given amount of ammonium nitrate. That is why Mcveigh’s miniscule bomb had diesel fuel mixed with the ammonium nitrate. My research was because I had imagined what could be, by exponentially greater magnitudes of power, the greatest chemical explosion ever and could be sailed into Las Angeles harbor for example, as a common commodity and then be detonated.
The oceans of our happy planet are teeming with bulk carrier ships. These are ships that have cargo area that is simply an open bay which can carry bulk goods such as ore or coal or grain or ammonium nitrate, that last one being a common commodity. They have double hulls and between the hulls are the diesel tanks. The larger bulk carriers have a capacity of up to 60,000 dead weight tons. That amount would take a lot of Ryder trucks. In my action movie the crew pumps most of the diesel into the ammonium nitrate, and then refuels as many times as necessary to get the ideal mixture and leave enough in the tanks to sail into LA. Sixty thousand tons of anfo, a very well understood stable explosive, going off even a few miles out to sea from LA would certainly make the news.
by A Guy Called LULU on Wed, 08/05/2020 - 12:25am
Occam's Razor is your friend
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/05/ammonium-nitrate-what-is-t...
While heat seems to have set off the Tianjin explosion, some speculation that armaments stored nearby at the port - "a stupid thing to do" - may be responsible for setting off the Beirut explosion
(Live feed - Scroll Down for discussions of causes)
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/middleeast/live-news/lebano...
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 08/05/2020 - 2:18am
Some more details.
by A Guy Called LULU on Wed, 08/05/2020 - 9:12am
Amusing comments
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 08/05/2020 - 9:33am
by artappraiser on Wed, 08/05/2020 - 1:57am
by artappraiser on Wed, 08/05/2020 - 2:19am
by artappraiser on Wed, 08/05/2020 - 2:31am
Video
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-53656220
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 08/05/2020 - 3:16am
I read from this that he sees that, like Syria, Lebanon too has now descended into the 8th circle of hell:
by artappraiser on Wed, 08/05/2020 - 7:55pm
Yeah, 8th circle of hell. (For all our troubles, got to remember to count our comparative blessings):
by artappraiser on Thu, 08/06/2020 - 12:47am
by artappraiser on Thu, 08/06/2020 - 7:28am
by artappraiser on Sat, 08/08/2020 - 2:30pm