Massive explosion in Beirut

Originally posted by Surtur
Just gets worse:

Beirut blast: Tracing the explosives that tore the capital apart

So senior officials have known for over 6 years that this stuff was there and they knew it posed a danger too.

https://twitter.com/A_J_Higgins/status/1291056060158169089?s=19

Originally posted by jaden_2.0
I absolutely detested doing ideal gas law and enthalpy calculations on this stuff during my undergrad.

Is it because it felt pretty damn close to teaching young minds how to make bombs?

No. It's that I was always terrible at the theory and much better at the practice. 😄

Originally posted by jaden_2.0
No. It's that I was always terrible at the theory and much better at the practice. 😄

Remember my undergrad was Forensic Science. It had a lot of practical stuff including several days with the army's bomb disposal team. We made suicide bomber vests, put them on a mannequin and accidentally blew up frogs that were using the mannequin for shade in the heat.

Alarm at Trump's unsubstantiated claim that Beirut blast was an 'attack'

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/05/donald-trump-beirut-explosion-remarks?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy

What a nut job.

Look at this picture

https://apnews.com/4475998de078a93bbe91b7ac9d43ada2

Originally posted by Old Man Whirly!
Alarm at Trump's unsubstantiated claim that Beirut blast was an 'attack'

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/05/donald-trump-beirut-explosion-remarks?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy

What a nut job.

Remember when you said Trump conspired with Russia for 4 years?

Now that was truly nutty

Originally posted by BrolyBlack
Remember when you said Trump conspired with Russia for 4 years?

Now that was truly nutty

They needed to find some way to use this tragedy to complain about Trump and it appears they did.

RIP.

Whirly wishes he was Trump

Originally posted by jaden_2.0
Remember my undergrad was Forensic Science. It had a lot of practical stuff including several days with the army's bomb disposal team. We made suicide bomber vests, put them on a mannequin and accidentally blew up frogs that were using the mannequin for shade in the heat.

You were supposed to turn the frickin' frogs gay, not destroy them!

Originally posted by Lestov16
First you try to say two wrongs make a right, then you try to say it's wrong point out someone's wrong. You REALLY are afraid to admit that you backed the wrong horse four years ago.

Also, your little "Think of the victims" doesn't work here, because if Trump thought about the victims, he wouldn't be on the news massively embellishing how they died. So if you can critique me for apathy, I can critique Trump.

Nah,Trump was the right horse. You backed the wrong horse in Hillary. That b*tch would've killed us all with WW3 in her first year in office 👆

Originally posted by jaden_2.0
We made suicide bomber vests, put them on a mannequin and accidentally blew up frogs that were using the mannequin for shade in the heat.

You're literally as bad as Trump
*smh
SHAME SHAME

Originally posted by carthage
You're literally as bad as Trump
*smh
SHAME SHAME

It's true you're worse than Trump

To use KMC's most used word.

On a more serious note: hundreds of people are still missing.

That's gotta be the worst part. The not knowing.

Given chemicals are involved does anybody know if rescue workers will be in any danger? As in, from fumes or anything?

Depends on exactly what was there. If it's ammonium nitrate it'll have been converted to nitrogen dioxide which is pretty bad when inhaled. If it's actually ammonium perchlorate then less so.