You think a little quad-copter can drop a huge bomb like that? Sorry, but that kind of energy density just doesn't exist, even in nuclear bombs.

This post was edited by Thor123422 on Aug 5 2020 12:37am

There are picture of the warehouse before it exploded and it clearly contained huge amounts of repossessed ammonium nitrate stored in large bags, enough to produce the blast we saw
The records show it had been stored there for 6 years, so not only did they leave an absurd amount of explosives right next to their city but it went completely neglected for this long

oh and this too.
The 2015 Tianjin explosions were 336 tons TNT equivalent and the one today was a 3.3 on the Richter scale which would be about 50 Tons of TNT equivalent.

Seems like today's explosion wasnt even close to as big as Tianjing's explosion and yet...no shockwave

Richter scale isn't a reliable way to estimate explosion payload. All the estimates I'm reading have the load today at 3 kilotons (3,000 tons)

Lol, what is your background in seismology?

Were you there to witness it?

it doesnt matter man.
The windows and all glass were shattered in every video in Beirut (15 miles radius).
Yet the couple filming the video in Tianjing were perfectly fine. It just doesn't add up.
If you can't see that then idk what to tell you man

yeah seriously what kind of density would that take? a ~20 lb payload isn't going to blow up a city
20 lbs of TNT is 0.00001 kilotons of TNT equivalent (duh)
20 lbs of ammonium nitrate is 0.000004 kilotons of TNT equivalent
20 lbs of RDX is 0.000015 kilotons of TNT equivalent
20 lbs of a davy crockett nuke is 0.0088 kilotons of TNT equivalent (disregarding need for critical mass, just naive energy density)
20 lbs of a maximum thermonuclear warhead is 35 kilotons of TNT equivalent (ditto)

meanwhile a warehouse filled with 2700 tons of ammonium nitrate has 1.08 kilotons of TNT equivalent energy.
that's the difference between 20 lbs and 5,950,000 lbs

This post was edited by Goomshill on Aug 5 2020 12:49am

Why is it weird? The Beirut explosion was far larger.

how much larger? Shouldn't there be more fire and flames if it was that much LARGER?
It was all just a big shockwave and a mushroom cloud.
I'm not here to argue lol but w/e floats your boat my man. You make yourself look dumb.