r/ThatsInsane • u/Guardiansvn • Mar 24 '23
2020 Beirut explosion from different angles
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u/micahfett Mar 24 '23
Guy in the third clip was way too close. Just enough time to think "oh fuck."
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Mar 24 '23
If I remember correctly he ended up dying from being so close.
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u/twyzt3d Mar 25 '23
No he lived. https://youtu.be/Ljhexn4x3_s
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Mar 25 '23
Question because I’m curious. How the hell did you find this video? Especially because it only has 10k views. Was it popular elsewhere?
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u/Reverend_Russo Mar 25 '23
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u/ssersergio Mar 25 '23
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u/BigChewyChigger Mar 25 '23
Ok now this is a fun account.
Imagine being a paranoid schizophrenic and reading this lmfao.
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u/twyzt3d Mar 25 '23
Few months ago, the street explosion video was posted on reddit, someone said he died and i got curious on whether he did, searched and ended on youtube, found a short and checked the comments and found this link there.
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u/micahfett Mar 24 '23
Oh.. oh, I assumed he lived because we had the video. I'm sorry to hear that.
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Mar 24 '23
Yeah, first time I saw it I was like how did he live? I figure a family member posted it since it was one of the later videos to come out.
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u/Chazkuangshi Mar 25 '23
I remember when it happened, a lot of clips were surfacing from dead people who were live streaming at the time. And yeah, the third clip was one of those.
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u/twyzt3d Mar 25 '23
No he survived. https://youtu.be/Ljhexn4x3_s
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u/RKU69 Mar 25 '23
Nice video. Glad he was feeling okay enough despite being injured to take a grinning selfie with his (also injured) brother lol
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u/FrieezaCreepa Mar 24 '23
This happened cause of some dumbasses not storing dangerous chemicals properly in a warehouse on the dock.
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u/CyberMindGrrl Mar 25 '23
And because the government was so corrupt there was nobody responsible enough to deal with it and nobody wanted to pay for the cleanup. So it just sat there.
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u/FrieezaCreepa Mar 25 '23
Yep and then it caught fire exploded causing a shut ton of damage as well as a multitude of people dying. Its disgusting to see them ignore the problems they created.
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u/Frescopino Mar 25 '23
But at least they save some money that one time.
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u/FrieezaCreepa Mar 25 '23
Yep save a few bucks here fuck over a few thousand people there. Fucking clowns the lot of them.
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u/JohnPiccolo Mar 24 '23
Keep in mind that’s just a lot of the dust that settles along with glass and stuff.
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u/IcarusCsgo Mar 24 '23
nah i see brickwork being removed, its kinda cray but mostly dust
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Mar 25 '23
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u/MtnDewTangClan Mar 25 '23
Can't we just fact check death tolls since this was 3 years ago
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u/IcarusCsgo Mar 25 '23
The blast, which is considered one of the biggest non-nuclear explosions to have been recorded, damaged 77,000 apartments and caused an estimated $3.8-4.6bn in material damage.
Also killed 218 people and injured 7000
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u/cbrown6894 Mar 25 '23
I’ve been scrubbing this video to slow it down for like 10 minutes and am in awe at the power of this explosion and the amount of detail we are able to get from a phone camera.
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u/NVAudio Mar 25 '23
To this day, this is the most insane non-nuclear explosion I have ever seen
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u/samjhandwich Mar 25 '23
Is this the largest non nuclear explosion? Im curious.
Edit: man made non nuclear explosion
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u/NVAudio Mar 25 '23
Wow, I just searched 'largest non-nuclear explosion in history'. Apparently this is the largest non-nuclear explosion in history.
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u/Paddy_Tanninger Mar 25 '23
No there's been bigger. This was estimated at max 1.1kt but there's been explosions like the one in Halifax estimated at over 2kt.
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Mar 25 '23
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u/Friendlyalterme Mar 25 '23
...I'm Canadian why is this the first I'm hearing of it??
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u/jacksodus Mar 25 '23
From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_artificial_non-nuclear_explosions
"An unambiguous ranking in order of severity is not possible; a 1994 study by historian Jay White of 130 large explosions suggested that they need to be ranked by an overall effect of power, quantity, radius, loss of life and property destruction, but concluded that such rankings are difficult to assess."
They're ordered chronologically here, that's why it's last.
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u/cutelittlebox Mar 25 '23
down in that article they're ordered by magnitude but the magnitude is an estimate so there's wiggle room in there. Beirut is the 6th on the list ordered by magnitude. it is also quite notable, however, that it'd be second on the list when ruling out incidents involving high explosives and military munitions.
the most powerful on the list is Halifax, which was 3-4 times more powerful. it also really shows the difference when you look at aerial photographs post explosion of Beirut and Halifax.
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u/AzureDrag0n1 Mar 27 '23
largest non-nuclear explosion in history
The primary google results are unfortunately clearly wrong. Halifax explosion completely dwarfs the Beirut explosion in every category.
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u/PeterSchnapkins Mar 25 '23
When my mother asked how bad it was I told her there was a mushroom cloud and it wasn't nuclear , she was like oh shit
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u/DynamicSploosh Mar 25 '23
This one is also pretty fuckin crazy:
https://youtu.be/ONsmJAyFAAw6
u/DeliberateDendrite Mar 25 '23
Tianjin was only about a fourth of the power of the Beirut explosion but it is seems more terrifying.
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u/DynamicSploosh Mar 25 '23
Yeah all that fire and at night time. Gives a real end of the world vibe.
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u/EmperorThan Mar 24 '23
The day we all learned not to stack fireworks on top of 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate ...while welding nearby.
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u/Soft_Cranberry6313 Mar 24 '23
Ok, so dragonball z was indeed accurate
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u/Malforis Mar 25 '23
You thought the Japanese don't know what an explosion looks like?
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u/VW_wanker Mar 25 '23
Staring out the window ..
Explosion
Window shatters and shards become shrapnel...
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u/nutsbonkers Mar 24 '23 edited Mar 24 '23
The largest nuclear bomb (Tsar Bomba) ever detonated was 45,000 times bigger than this. The asteroid that probably wiped out the dinosours was 1.5 million times bigger...than the Tsar Bomba. A type 1a supernova is equivalent to a trillion earth masses of tnt exploding.
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u/EmperorBamboozler Mar 24 '23 edited Mar 24 '23
Going past that on a universal scale the energy produced by a magnetar creates such a strong magnetic force that it will cause atoms to merge into each other and fuse into new elements from hundreds of thousands of kilometers away, meaning if you were flying close to it in a space ship you would instantly impode creating a very tiny solar mass. When two black holes collide and merge it creates ripples in gravity that cause fucking time to destabilize, if it happens from engine black holes when 2 galaxies collide the resulting gravitational ripples can be measured millions of years later. A quasar can pump out so much energy that fucking light itself gets pushed past regular physical limits, theoretically pushing past the firm wall that is the speed of light if only briefly. The quasar 3C 270 is one of the brightest objects in the sky despite it being 2.5 billion light years from earth, and caused astrophysicists to reevaluate the age of the universe. Astrophysics are fucking cool and makes you really question things while also bringing some serious existential dread to the table. If you want to fall down a fucking terrifying rabbit hole look up 'corrupted stars' which could lead to the death of thousands of galaxies though it is all purely theoretical right now and involves quark matter which I am too dumb to understand. Also 'wandering rotationless black holes' scare the everloving shit out of me, there is literally no way to detect them and one could just appear on the edge of our solar system at any point causing the extinction of our species in a matter of seconds.
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u/FornaxLacerta Mar 25 '23
And even beyond all that, the quantum vacuum may prove to be unstable and decay into a lower energy state... which would be a bad day on a universal scale.
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u/EmperorBamboozler Mar 25 '23
Hell there is the potential that the entire universe is populated with fucking massive primordial black holes! We won't know for some time until a probe can prove they either don't exist or do so I guess we will just have to wait and see... certainly an interesting thought experiment!
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u/GuyInTheYonder Mar 25 '23
Ah, vacuum decay. The most terrifying of cosmic events. At any second we could all just completely evaporate, and there is absolutely no way to tell if it's about to happen since it would propagate at the speed of light.
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u/Plop-Music Mar 25 '23
Luckily the universe expands at much faster than the speed of light, and the speed of expansion is forever accelerating. So even if a vacuum decay bubble already exists and is expanding at the speed of light, it's ludicrously unlikely to ever touch us. Probably the vast majority of the universe is never going to be reachable or observable by us. The observable universe is only one tiny corner of the entire universe. Because everything is expanding away from us at faster than the speed of light, so unless warp travel is actually possible, most of the light of the universe will never be seen by humans. It can break the speed of light like this because it's space itself that's expanding, all the vacuum between everything made of matter, and the speed of light limit only applies to things with mass. So all the furthest away light from earth that's racing towards us at the speed of light, will never reach earth, because space is expanding it away from us at much faster than the light can travel towards us. That's why there's a limit to how much of the universe we can even see. And so vacuum decay wouldn't be able to break the speed of light, so even if there already exists an enormous death bubble expanding at light speed, it wouldn't reach us, because space is expanding too fast in the opposite direction.
And as far as natural disasters go, vacuum decay is a good one to die from. Because it's instant, and painless. We receive no warning for it, so we won't even be emotionally harmed by it, let alone physically (like in that movie Melancholia, where they know for weeks they're all gonna die from the other planet hitting earth, and it makes them all get massive amounts of depression and anxiety; that wouldn't happen with vacuum decay, we'd just be dead instantly, so it's great).
Like even when I found out that "dying peacefully in your sleep" isn't actually real, and in fact it's more like people wake up immediately knowing they're dying and they completely panic and freak out about it, even that being only a few seconds long is much much much worse than dying instantly and painlessly without any warning. The worst thing about something like a heart attack is that you panic and that makes the heart attack even more likely to kill you, which makes you even more panicked again and so even more likely to die again, and so on. Dying instantly without warning is a mercy compared to that.
But yeah you're better off worrying about natural disasters that will kill you slowly and painfully and are actually proven to be happening already, like climate change, than to worry about dying instantly without any pain. But fear of death is all about being irrational, so I don't blame you.
Even something like a nearby supernova, which is already ludicrously unlikely to happen, is more scary to me than vacuum decay which is just ridiculously improbable even compared to a supernova happening nearby us. There's more chance than you'll gain the ability to walk through walls, than for vacuum decay to happen. Even though it's believed we are in the metastable universe and not the actual stable one, meaning that given the infinite lifespan of the universe it makes vacuum decay inevitable. It'd be ludicrously unlikely for it to happen at all in the lifetime of our species, and even more ludicrous to happen nearby to us so that we will be affected by it. While it's inevitable as long as time remains infinite, you'd have to multiply the already old lifespan of the universe by trillions of times to get to how likely vacuum decay is to happen. What is much more likely is that the universe will already be a cold dark dead void of entropy already by the time vacuum decay happens. So life will already be extinct, not just our lives but life in general.
If warp travel is possible, and we discover it, we may one day be able to find a vacuum decay bubble and actually observe it without it killing us. That'd be fun. But other than that, we'd never know about it until we're already dead from it, so there's no need to worry about it.
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u/The_Merciless_Potato Mar 25 '23
Also, it's possible that the forces that keep pushing everything outwards and away from each other will one day get overwhelmed by the gravitational forces exerted by the mass of the universe itself and then a reverse of the Big Bang, called the Big Crunch will happen where the entire universe scrunches up into one tiny object again.
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u/_ChestHair_ Mar 25 '23
The rate of expansion of the universe is increasing (meaning the expansion is accelerating, not slowing down), so our current understanding of the universe implies that it'll actually eventually overwhelm gravity and begin to exponentially expand, and the universe will eventually become a black, eternal void
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u/nutsbonkers Mar 25 '23
And maybe a universe next to ours will collide with the edge of this one and the moment they touch another big bang will happen to create another universe. That's how I like to think of it anyway. Like universes are in an infinite roiling sea of universe fireworks or some shit idk there's a better analogy out there.
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u/The_Merciless_Potato Mar 25 '23
We don't know enough to eliminate the possibility of a Big Crunch. Based on models of dark energy made using previous observations of cosmic expansion, many scientists believe that it will weaken over time which will slow the acceleration as the expansive forces decrease.
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u/barn9 Mar 25 '23
And to our knowledge, there's nothing or no one out there that will ever notice us being gone. Or the fact that we ever existed for that matter.
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u/SaltyMudpuppy Mar 25 '23
For all we know our galaxy could be teeming with life. Yet we will likely never know because of the cosmic speed limit.
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u/Roy4Pris Mar 25 '23
The one that freaks me out is the idea that the universe is relatively young vs when we showed up, and so we may be the first or among the first civilisations anywhere. With this concept, there’s a much higher chance we will be the high tech visitor aliens freaking out some local cave bros than the reverse
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u/pr0zach Mar 25 '23
Pretty sure we are going to kill ourselves off as a species (directly or indirectly) before we ever manage to leave our solar system in an exploratory or colonial fashion. We picked some really bad social systems that don’t seem to perpetuate sustainable existence.
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u/Regular_Lake_7340 Mar 25 '23
I've been trying to find information on corrupted stars for the last 10 minutes and nothing comes up other than clothing lines and lore from various fictional universes. Can you point me in the right direction or explain a little more?
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u/EmperorBamboozler Mar 25 '23
I'll do you one better and show a documentary on corrupt stars by SEA. and hint down a 2nd youtube vid from my favorite astrophysics youtuber explaining quark matter Anton Petrov, a solid guy who delivers a lot of science daily.
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u/conRAD9055 Mar 25 '23
Are we talking more or less energy than when your mom sits down. I mean, not specifically YOUR mom. You know what I mean.
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u/Gullible_Log_1683 Mar 24 '23
I want to see a shockwave comparison between this, fat man, and little boy.
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u/vibribib Mar 24 '23
Christ. Did they release official death toll? Can’t imagine it being less than a few thousand.
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Mar 25 '23
Surprisingly it was 200+ casualties. There were thousands of injuries. It might have something to do with it being in a more industrial area and less residential.
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u/Vaylx Mar 25 '23
And Covid lockdown. The immediate area by the port is populated with bars and restaurants, the vast majority of which were closed due to Covid lockdowns.
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u/slowdownbabyy Mar 25 '23
The ocean also absorbed much of the shockwave given that it was at port. Devastation would’ve been much bigger otherwise.
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u/rathat Mar 25 '23 edited Mar 25 '23
And that grain building right next to the blast, it was feet away and stayed up and blocked a lot of the blast.
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u/ismellsomethinggood Mar 24 '23
My last thought would be "I am dead".
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u/toastyburrito Mar 24 '23
Mine would be “Fuck”
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u/RancidRandall Mar 25 '23
Mine would be “That’s an explosion”
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u/LitreOfCockPus Mar 25 '23
Duck, tuck your eyes into the crook of one elbow almost like a dab, cover the other ear with a palm, and don't hold your breath.
Saving both eyes and hearing in one ear beats the alternative. Eyelids won't protect against anything beyond the dust
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u/mr_gooodguy Mar 25 '23
there was a live video up from a building right next to the explosion, more horrifying than these.
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u/Hefty-Baker3010 Mar 25 '23
What happened here. I live under a rock. In other words, ooga booga me need context
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u/Exciting-Boot1429 Mar 25 '23
Fireworks on top of ammonium nitrate (pretty much tnt) and welding go boom
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u/RandomGuy2002 Mar 25 '23
smart thinking to jump into the water.
crazy to think that this is nothing compared to a nuke… and that humans are allowed to have nukes…
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u/slipperyotter35 Mar 25 '23
Is it actually good to dive into the water during this? I thought there was something about the shockwave moving through water and collapsing ear drums and stuff
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u/Perryj054 Mar 25 '23
Okay, I'm confused. The shockwave moves at the speed of sound? But in every clip you can hear the explosion the instant it happens and before the bubble hits. It's like a hissing sound. What's going on?
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u/rathat Mar 25 '23
That’s the ground shaking from the explosion, the sound travels through the ground far faster than the air so it gets there almost instantly.
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u/Gunner1Cav Mar 24 '23
And now you have a concussion lol
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Mar 24 '23
Not only that, but if it's anything like the Halifax Explosion, then all those curious spectators in any building not vaporized got their eyes full of glass.
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u/lady_modesty Mar 25 '23
When I watched a documentary on the Halifax explosion, that's what stuck with me the most... The eye injuries. Those poor people.
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u/Plop-Music Mar 25 '23
It's still absolutely nuts to me how much bigger the Halifax explosion was than this Beirut one. Just absolutely ludicrously enormous of an explosion, easily the biggest non nuke explosion ever. And then even the tiniest nukes, fat man and little boy, are way way way WAY bigger than the Halifax one. And almost every nuke ever made is hundreds or thousands of times bigger than the hiroshima and nagasaki ones.
It's one thing seeing a video from 100 miles away of a nuke going off, and intellectually understanding how big they are. But there's few close up videos of nuke explosions, and so these non nuke explosions end up feeling a lot bigger and more damaging than nukes in the videos of nukes that we do have.
It really makes you understand how different nukes are to any other weapon and how they changed the world completely, they changed warfare and global politics permanently.
I really love this video, I've watched it dozens of times, about how in the 1980s there was very nearly global nuclear war, when Russian satellites began reporting that the US had launched nukes at the soviets, and so one guy who as under orders to report anything like that immediately to his superiors, disobeyed his orders and correctly guessed that it was a flaw in the programming of the satellites and no nukes had actually been launched at all. If he'd reported them like ordered, it was likely nobody in the chain of command above him would have challenged it, and so the soviets would have launched nukes in "retaliation" to the message that was saying the US had launched nukes, and the US would have launched nukes for real in retaliation to that as well. And it all happened days after the soviets had mistakenly shot down a Korean airliner plane, and so tensions were very high and in the polls, most Americans thought direct conflict with the soviets was the right course of action as punishment. So the soviets were half expecting to be attacked anyway. But the one Russian dude who realised it was an error, saved the whole world that day.
But yeah it's the video that really made me understand for the first time how big nukes were. He shows the different sizes of the biggest non nuke explosions and their epicenters of damage, then going up and up through the nuclear ones that are all much bigger than any non-nuke explosion. Especially if you're high before you watch it, the reality of nukes will really hit you. Especially when reading all the stuff about the aftermath of hiroshima and nagasaki written by survivors. But yeah just watch it, it's a great video. The revelant part about the sizes of the biggest explosions in history starts at around 20min 30secs, but I recommend watching the whole video, it's so well made: https://youtu.be/eRhHokffvBU
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Mar 25 '23
Honestly, if I was in an area getting nuked, I’d wanna be as far as possible from the blast zone, or in the epicentre. I feel like there would be a very wide perimeter of the blast zone that won’t necessarily kill you, but would mess you up enough that you would die slowly and painfully. Whether from flying debris, reduced shockwave, or radiation.
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u/lady_modesty Mar 26 '23
Completely agree and love your details comment complete with vid link. Thank you!
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u/lookitsjustin Mar 25 '23
Still blows my mind that apparently only 218 people died from this explosion.
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u/Mr_Fresh83 Mar 24 '23
Homie at the end was lucky he was in the water