@rsinclair689 Something's wrong with your info. 6 seconds is very close to 2km so well over a mile. Sound travels very consistantly in the air. So consistantly in fact you can tell the approximate distance to explosion from the delay, or the exact distance if you know the athmospheric pressure, temperature and humidity. The latter 3 can deviate the speed of sound no more than 10% and also do it consistantly. Math is dead simple: every Km takes on average exactly 3 seconds to cover by sound (as its average speed in average climate is ~330m/sec.). The power of the blast does not affect it except for the small death radius of blastwave overpressure around the explosive itself.
Too bad (for viewing purposes) that no one was able to film the Halifax explosion of 6 December 1917, when a ship full of munitions blew up and wiped out everything within half a mile, killing over 1700 people.
Okay, well what about Krakatoa ? Too bad there weren't any movie cameras to record that... I was just forty miles from Mt St Helene's when that one went off,
That explosion in Beirut is probably the most filmed explosion of all time, I personally have seen almost 1,000 different videos of it from all sorts of angles. The most impressive one is definitely the one filmed by a guy on a water ski.
I remember the PEPCON explosion very well. I was 5 years old and attending kindergarten at a school about 1.5 miles away. I remember feeling the earth shake followed by a loud BOOM! and the windows blowing out of the classroom a few seconds later. It was still the Cold War era so our teacher had us duck and cover under tables. Scariest moment of my life.
In August 2021, I visited the port of Beirut, Lebanon, still marked by the 2020 ammonium nitrate explosion-one of the biggest non-nuclear blasts in history. Standing near the ruined grain silos, I felt a chill. Locals told stories of windows shattering miles away. The scale of destruction was beyond belief. Even years later, the silence in that place felt louder than the explosion itself. I’ll never forget it.
The numbers (as they commonly are) are absolutely a lie. To this day the camera angle you see from a few dozen feet away. That man was vaporized. He went onto a missing persons list and not a death toll.
One larger blast was from the USS Mount Hood (AE-11) in 1944, 3,800 tons of ammonium nitrate vs 3,000 tons in Beirut. The largest piece remaining of the 460' ship was 10' x 16'. Ships 2,000 yards away were damaged, and personnel 4,500 yards away were knocked to the ground. 22 ships were sunk and another 18 were damaged. The explosion dug a crater on the bottom, 35 feet below, 1,000 feet long, 50 feet across, and 30-40 feet deep. Needless to say, hundreds were killed.
That explosion was so massive, so powerful that the multi-dozen story building directly next to it - probably 200 feet high - was completely vaporized by it. It was obscene.
I was in Beirut when the explosion happened. It was apocalyptic. Streets were full of rubble and bloodied people were walking everywhere confused. Nobody of these people knew where the explosion happened. When asked, everyone said the explosion was "everywhere".
3:37 we were standing on the field at Brinley Jr High School playing soccer when the first blast happened. We saw the big orange plume then saw the second explosion. Our school was all the way across the valley from Pepcon and we still felt the vibrations from it. Got sent home promptly after. I’ll never forget that day. 😬
I went to Brinley from 92-94. The school was awesome back then, still had the pools with diving boards, , yup got to swim for P.E. And where I met life long friends. 19 yrs later my son went to Brinley, was cool walking around the school again. Off topic 🤦🏻♂️ but damn good memories
I was at Paul Culley Elementary School, which is pretty close by Brinley. I had a very similar experience. It was lunchtime and I was in the cafeteria, which was built like a bunker.
I was in elementary School and they showed 1st and 2nd grade kids the nuke tests films a lot of us were crying and just traumatized. I still get a knot in my stomach when I see them 🤢🤪
A significant part of Beirut was saved by the massive grain silo that stood right next to the explosion. It was half-destroyed, but shielded everything behind it from the worst effects of the detonation.
@graham2088 Well, look at the photos. There´s one side missing, but the other is still standing, some 30 meters from the epicenter of the explosion. Its even in the video.
@Bergermeister99 Idiot conspriacy theory that was debunked on the same day the footage of the explosion was being shown on news channels around the world.
Based off of the largest explosion in the first video, the sound reached the camera 10 seconds and 7 frames (at 30 fps, this is roughly 0.233 seconds) after the blast. Since it took around 10.233 seconds for the sound to reach them, the source of the explosion was around 2.18 miles away, and it was still that loud.
That sounds about right. I live in Henderson not too far from where Pepcon used to be. The mountain where it was filmed from is called "Black Mountain" by locals, but that isn't really its name. This peak (called "Henderson Benchmark" by peak baggers) is a volcanic cinder cone with the N/NW face collapsed, and is south of W Horizon Ridge Parkway and S Gibson Road if you want to look it up on Google Maps. The center of the explosion was just south of present day Corporate Park Drive. The whole area is densely inhabited today. They were filming off of Mountain Tower Road, a closed service road for the broadcast equipment up there. I suspect they were just south of the building labeled "KISF - FM 103.5", which Google maps shows as 2.45 miles away. If they were closer to the northernmost building they would be 2.37 miles. Just according to Google Maps. There was a marshmallow factory right next to Pepcon that was destroyed as well.
APCP will not explode normally unless it is tightly contained. The Texas City disaster happened because all compartment bulkhead doors were latched and sealed, then they tried using steam to saturate the ammonia nitrate and put it out. But that only got it all up to the critical temperature and made it all detonate at once. OUCHIES
Oh damn. That made the explosion even more powerful. When the steam condensated to water again the explosion turned it into steam again. Adding volume to explosion. The water and steam being hot lowered the energy needed to set it off too.
The first explosion was multiple barrels of nitroglycerin, followed by thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate. When the fire fighters were spraying water onto it, it created a self fueling reaction that caused the ammonium nitrate to explode.
What's funny is most of this is real footage, so the sound wave takes like 8 seconds to reach the camera. You know you're watching doctored footage when you hear the explosion at the same time you see it.
*_Bruce Hulker_* : The Pepcon plant manager who died in the blast was wheelchair bound and unable to escape in time. *_Roy Westerfield_* : Pepcon Plant operator who also died was a Polio survivor and as such his ability to mobilise was also compromised like Bruce Hulker the manager. According to surviving Pepcon employees, both men, realising they would likely place the lives of their fellow workers in jeopardy if they allowed the employees to try and help them escape, they made the selfless brave choice to instead remain behind onsite, ensure all workers evacuated and to relay real time information on the dangerously dynamic emergency to first responders enroute, in effort to not risk even more lives. These two selfless men likely saved many of the first responders that day. I just thought we should remember these men for their incredibly brave and selfless actions that day. RIP BRUCE HULKER ROY WESTERFIELD.
The 1947 Texas City, Texas explosions of two ships carrying ammonium nitrate was larger than most, if not all of these, and one was caught on film. You should check it out.
@thewaywardwind548Texas City resident here,there is video of the first explosion of the ship named Grandcamp, it was caught by a woman who was told to leave the port area. She drove a little over 1 mile, to a dike that sticks into Galveston Bay.
The RAF Fauld explosion was a military accident which occurred at 11:11 am on Monday, 27 November 1944 at the RAF Fauld underground munitions storage depot in Staffordshire, England. It was one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history and the largest on UK soil.
The Beirut explosion was said to be equivalent to 1 kiloton. The smallest Nuclear bomb which was dropped on Japan was 15 kiloton equivalent. FIFTEEN times larger than Beirut. Back in the 80s B-52s routinely carried weapons of between 180 kilotons and 400 kiloton yield. Unimaginable power. TWELVE of them !
The soviets dropped a 50Megaton nuke over Siberia, and if it wasn’t for a last minute decision by the designer, it would have been twice as big. There might be one bigger though, a backyard bomb called Project Sundial, Edward Teller was a sociopath. A bomb so big, it doesn’t matter where you place it, the effect is the same everywhere on earth
The Beirut explosion was actually predicted and worried about by a heap of people, workers etc. but the corrupt government officials didn't care, it wasn't their problem etc. It's a tragedy because it was totally preventable but nobody was incentivised to do anything about it.
Aren't many accidents, explosions, etc. preventable? Pepco for example. If they didn't weld next to AN barrels (like seriously, WTF?!!), if they didn't store the amounts they did, if they had proper fire suppression in place etc. it could have been prevented. I think it's preventable in most cases. But accidents do happen and preventing all dangers is probably next to, if not completely, impossible.
common priorities of a CAPITALIST 🙊 system - normalized irresponsibilities are wherever you look the decline etc etc... it is that, and that is systemic, and we need to drop the era of insane mental gymnastics by start actually talking about this
They had leftover fuel from when the space program was still going, but when it was abruptly stopped due to the challenger disaster, they had a surplus. I’d imagine why they didn’t take it somewhere safer to store was because it would be hard to transport or because they had the facilities on site to store it, and the welder/whoever decided it was a good idea to use something that flings sparks at flammable fuel didn’t account for said fuel.
Not as big, but since I'm only 2 miles from ground zero, the fireworks explosion in Esparto ca (July 1 2025) felt apocalyptic. The Shockwave was like an earthquake. The sound was deafening. And the mushroom cloud was terrifying.
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12:33 unarmed munitions, does not mean inert. For the movement and storage of ammunition to be 100% safe you would need to take all the gunpowder out of the cartridges.
It is always sad and tragic about those who die in massive explosions, but from a scientific, physical and visual perspective, us humans are just in awe by them and always will be. That's why videos like this are so interesting, thanks :)
I was working at Sahara and Boulder highway in Las Vegas when pepcon blew up.I felt the blast and witnessed it all. Boom 💥 me and a friend jumped in a car and drove on the then under construction 🏗 highway towards Henderson Nevada. It was quite an exciting day.The blast imploded every garage door within eight miles. Of the plant. That day in may nineteen eighty eight was quite a scary day. May 4th 1988.
Ripple Rock wasn't anywhere near Vancouver, it was just outside of Campbell River on Vancouver Island. That's the difference between Mexico and New Mexico.
I can’t imagine creating tunnels that deep and that far under the water because of any leakage that could happen while workers were working on the tunnels. That would have freaked me out.
No it's not. This is a normal thing to happen. The craziest thing is you westerners are so conditioned to corruption that your executives designate a fall guy and let all executives away with it. Like your bankers when they 'lose' all the money.
It's because they used natural gas. A factory that uses water will be by water lines. If they need a train, then train tracks. You act like building near infrastructure is some crazy 🤪 idea. OMFG, they built on a gas line! Yeah, genius, the place uses gas for the dryers. Of course, it's going to have access to natural gas. 🙄
These explosions just makes the scale of nuclear explosions even more insane. The amount of fuel or ordinance or explosives needed to even get a fraction the size of a nuke is mind boggling.
The Beirut desaster is heartbreaking. The city had just about recovered from the civil war. Imagine being one of the port officials who had for seven years tried to get rid of the stuff, knowing full well how dangerous it was, but no one cared... Also, adding to the tragedy: That big silo building right next to it, with all the yellow stuff spilled out after the blast? Yeah. That was the state wheat reserve....
@paul756uk2 That was not a firework factory, it was a harbor warehouse holding 3500t of mining grade ammonium nitrate from a derelict russian-owned moldovian freighter that was impounded due to safey concerns eight years earlier. What caused the fire was apparently the same as the PEPCON-desaster: welding work. Do you think Israel sent a welder to PEPCON? Why? Yes, I know, Israel repeatedly bombed Hezbollah in Lebanon, in breach of international law, and does clearly commit warcrimes on a daily basis in Gaza. That alone is not evidence they blew up Beirut. And why would they want to do that? And even if we can construct a motive, that´s not even indication, that´s still pure Conspiracy theory. We do not need to invent crimes for our own emotional benefit. Just because something horrible happens doesn´t automatically mean the entitiy you despise is behind it. Please, this was a horrible catastrophe, let´s not degrade it to fodder for CT. Unless there is clear evidence of foul play and direct israeli interference, this is an accident. i watched dozens of hours of footage, analysis and documentaries, there is nothing that doesn´t check out or even hints at foul play. It was a desaster waiting to happen until it did, for all we know. Next we believe the Oppau explosion was caused by french agents provocateurs....( it was not, it was caused by complacency and negligence)
@paul756uk2 the warehouse, afaik, held AN, old tires, and fireworks. That´s not a good mix under a sheet metal roof under the blazing sun. Putting that next to the grain reserve is asking for trouble. But the stuff had been lying there for eight years, and there is a sad reason for this: necessity and lack of options. The ship was in danger of sinking in the harbor, and needed to be unloaded, and so they needed storage space for 3500t , asap. And this warehouse was the only option they had. And it had been there for eight years. If someone wanted to use it as a ginormous bomb, why eight years later? Lebanon was just about to stabilise, citizens demanded reforms form the government, why blow it up then and not earlier? I thought about this particular CT a lot (hence the wall of text), it doesn´t check out, at all. Leaves more puzzles than it promises easy answers.
1:00. Please review if you’re wondering why a specific explosion was not covered here. We know there were a lot more, but this reasonable restriction was put in place. 👍👍
The biggest non nuclear explosion happened in Halifax Canada in 1917. Nearly 2000 people died and the explosion was heard over 420Km away from the blast. 2nd non nuclear happened when a volcano exploded underwater in the sea in Tonga Jan 22 2022.
@underworld 10:00 this is nowhere Vancouver. It is between north Vancouver Island and the mainland and discovery Island. Campbell river is the closest city/town to it.
The announcer boy completely missed the Texas City massive explosion in 1947' Very similar to the Lebanon explosion Two ships full of ammonium nitrate exploded killing 581 people and destroying much of the town Ammonium nitrate is mainly use as fertilizer for farm crops.
But was it caught on film/video? The content creator specifically stated that only explosions captured on film would be covered in this video. Otherwise, he would have had to include the Halifax, Nova Scotia explosion on 6 December 1917 which happened when the US tramp-steamer Imo collided with the French ammunition ship Mont Blanc. This caused a fire on board the Mont Blanc resulting in an explosion subsequently calculated to be the equivalent of 2.9 kilotons of TNT. This killed at least 1,782 and injured upwards of 9,000 people. An area of over 1.6 square kilometres (400 acres) was completely destroyed by the explosion, and the harbour floor was momentarily exposed by the volume of water that was displaced. A tsunami was formed by water surging in to fill the void; it rose as high as 18 metres (60 ft) above the high-water mark on the Halifax side of the harbour. Most buildings within a 1.6km radius received catastrophic damage.
I remember seeing clips of that PEPCON explosion back around the time it happened. It amazed me just how long it took for the sound of the shockwave from the explosion to reach the guy filming.
Sounds travels at only 300 meters/second. Now imagine the light from distant stars and galaxies takes hundreds to billions of years to reach us at the speed of light 300,000,000 meters/sec. The distances in our Universe are beyond human scales.
Because it was UNINTENTIONAL If you accidentally bumped into a waiter in a restaurant and caused him to drop his plates it wouldn't be fair for you to be expected to pay the full monetary value of the meal back to the restaurant.
I wish there was good video footage of the explosion that happened in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada back in 1917 as it's still considered to be the biggest non nuclear explosion to have ever happened to date.
A lot of misguided people consider it the largest non-nuclear explosion. But they are wrong. It was the Wanggongchang Explosion. Which dwarfed the Halifax one. It isn't brought up a lot because it happened in 1626, and nobody can really explain why it was so powerful as there was a large black powder factory in the area, but its yield was between 10-20kts, compared to the Halifax 2.9kts. Even a meteor strike has been theorized.
because it has to do with Canada .... if this video is American , nothing can be bigger , better , number one in the America's eyes , especially when it comes to Canada .... Americans are Masters of the Universe , didn't you know .........
The largest in the UK is estimated to have been RAF Fauld. The explosion of around 4.5 kilotons occured in November 1944. The entire area including farms and a reservoir were wiped off the map.
Incredible and terrifying at the same time. It's mind-blowing to see the scale of these explosions-hard to imagine the sheer force involved without seeing it! 19:35
The 12:11 RIPPLE ROCK that was some serious work just to move 10-20 meters deep or so of rock from just below the surface. Now days you could just drill it, pack the holes and blow it from top down. I guess the technology wasn’t there at the time. If they could have just waited a little to start the project it would have been much easier. They could have just moved in a floating drilling rig or a drill ship and then drilled deep holes, pack them with explosives, cap the holes with several yards of concrete…. And bang. It’s done. It’s actually easier to blow rock under water as far as blasting kinetics goes.
that beirut explosion reminds me of what happened at BASF in germany back in the 1920s. 1000s of tons of fertilizer in a silo blew up, creating a shockwave that could still be heard in munich, 400 km (250 miles) away. decades later i visited one of those silos. i don't remember the exact size, but they are HUGE. olympic-sized swimming pools are nothing compared to those silos. edit: fixed a typo
That was the Oppau Explosion; huge amounts of ammonium nitrate (AN) were stored improperly, absorbed moisture, and caked. The AN was mixed with ammonium sulphate, and everyone with power and authority in the plant assumed that the mixture was absolutely insensitive, and that it would not become separated again by itself. Management was so convinced of the stability of the mixed AN, that workers emptying out the silos were tasked with using explosives to blast apart large chunks of the mixed AN that had caked together, allowing it to be more easily shoveled out of the silo. That sped up the process, and worked as intended until it didn't one day.
Please don't be naive to the negligence of Lebanon... They knew that the ammonium nitrate was stored there for far too long. Multiple parties have warned them and pleaded with them to remove the neglected chemical. People knew, but they just didn't do anything about it. I don't think ANYONE who had ANY power to stop that disaster was surprised in the slightest. Terrible people who don't care about the lives of civilians.
It was mixed, was supposed to go to a mining operation, but crooked people held the load hostage extorting more money. Captain just gave up the load and left.
Texas City, TX suffered two explosions in 1947, i believe. A French cargo ship, carrying about 2,300 tons of Ammonium Nitrate exploded. Killing ALL of the fireman on scene. Blew two planes out of the sky, shattered windows in Houston and Galveston, killed people in the THOUSANDS, and sent the ships anchor through the air 1.6 miles, where it still sits. The next day, a second ship carrying about the same amount of Amonium Nitrate exploded, with similar, maybe even more magnitude. It is said that the explosions were the same magnitude as the Hiroshima A-Bomb. I may be off on some of my numbers, but I'd say it makes the list, although not caught on camera.
My great uncle “Kick” was one of the first medical people to reach the place. IIRC, 581 dead, lots more injured. Kick bandaged like mad and got people into whatever vehicles were still working, and headed them to the hospital. He wound up settling in Texas City because he kept taking care of those people.
The N1 Rocket explosion wiped out ALL of the highest levels of Russia's Space Program. And with them went to future of their accomplishments and ability to compete NASA, they still managed to do some incredible things, but most of it relied upon things the deceased leader of the program had already established. it was a devastating blow to Rus Cosmos.
You know the blast is going to be loud when you can literally watch the sound wave coming for 10 or 15 seconds before you hear it.
Tianjin was 6 seconds! They were less than a mile
That's a long 6 seconds for those who witnessed it...
@rsinclair689
Something's wrong with your info. 6 seconds is very close to 2km so well over a mile. Sound travels very consistantly in the air. So consistantly in fact you can tell the approximate distance to explosion from the delay, or the exact distance if you know the athmospheric pressure, temperature and humidity. The latter 3 can deviate the speed of sound no more than 10% and also do it consistantly. Math is dead simple: every Km takes on average exactly 3 seconds to cover by sound (as its average speed in average climate is ~330m/sec.). The power of the blast does not affect it except for the small death radius of blastwave overpressure around the explosive itself.
@rsinclair689It takes sound just over 5 seconds to go a mile, so 6 seconds is more like 1.1-1.2 miles.
more like a shock wave
Dude killed over 100 firefighters and caused $1 billion in economic losses but only got fined $100,000?!?! WTF
That's all he had.
@lesterpittenger5992 what did he do with all the money they paid him?
😂
They also put him in jail, where his organs were harvested without pain killers.
People should be held in debt until they can pay it off. Especially if they cause hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages
Too bad (for viewing purposes) that no one was able to film the Halifax explosion of 6 December 1917, when a ship full of munitions blew up and wiped out everything within half a mile, killing over 1700 people.
I was just talking to my daughter about this the other day. There is a picture of the enormous smoke cloud. It was brutal.
And Halifax would've been among one of the largest cities in Canada if the explosion had never happened
Okay, well what about Krakatoa ? Too bad there weren't any movie cameras to record that... I was just forty miles from Mt St Helene's when that one went off,
@mitchelboutte997 what are you going on about… this is all man made(non nuclear) explosions
@Kerify I don't think that's accurate. And I say that sitting in Halifax currently.
That explosion in Beirut is probably the most filmed explosion of all time, I personally have seen almost 1,000 different videos of it from all sorts of angles. The most impressive one is definitely the one filmed by a guy on a water ski.
It’s crazy to think we had bombs that were 100,000 times more powerful than that too.
I guarantee you didn't see almost 1000 different videos of it. Unless you have zero life and were recording every single instance, which you weren't.
There are even several wedding photo shoots of couples enjoying the moment in the city on film at the time of said explosion.
🧃 were responsible. The Mossad did it.
@Deetroitmuscle you left your tin foil hat in your mom's basement 🙄
I remember the PEPCON explosion very well. I was 5 years old and attending kindergarten at a school about 1.5 miles away. I remember feeling the earth shake followed by a loud BOOM! and the windows blowing out of the classroom a few seconds later. It was still the Cold War era so our teacher had us duck and cover under tables. Scariest moment of my life.
Dunk and cover will do nothing to save you sorry.
@charlesanderson2892, duck and cover does work in some aspects, its standard procedure, yes it may not work in all situations but it does in lots
@charlesanderson2892Guess what? He’s still alive
@neoleonor7140 um because no bomb went off, duh. Also, have you seen Hiroshima after the bomb? Also guess what is not a question!
@neoleonor7140go sit in a house and gaza and dunk and cover. Bet it doesn't end so well.
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Is it the feta cheese commercial? I bet it’s the feta cheese commercial… I friggin HATE that commercial. 🙄
Hey Jeff. You be 10000% correct.👍👍👍👍
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He's right. We humans absolutely love big explosions and exploding things!
Boys like to blow up things. They grow up and now they can get gov't money to do it even bigger.
"Destruction is always more abrupt, and more enticing than creation."
So as small explosions?
Yes😊
art is an explosion 😂
In August 2021, I visited the port of Beirut, Lebanon, still marked by the 2020 ammonium nitrate explosion-one of the biggest non-nuclear blasts in history. Standing near the ruined grain silos, I felt a chill. Locals told stories of windows shattering miles away. The scale of destruction was beyond belief. Even years later, the silence in that place felt louder than the explosion itself. I’ll never forget it.
The numbers (as they commonly are) are absolutely a lie. To this day the camera angle you see from a few dozen feet away. That man was vaporized. He went onto a missing persons list and not a death toll.
Lucky was the guy on the jet ski already on the water if your under water is y'all safe. The water will cushion the after blast pressure..
One larger blast was from the USS Mount Hood (AE-11) in 1944, 3,800 tons of ammonium nitrate vs 3,000 tons in Beirut. The largest piece remaining of the 460' ship was 10' x 16'. Ships 2,000 yards away were damaged, and personnel 4,500 yards away were knocked to the ground. 22 ships were sunk and another 18 were damaged. The explosion dug a crater on the bottom, 35 feet below, 1,000 feet long, 50 feet across, and 30-40 feet deep. Needless to say, hundreds were killed.
That explosion was so massive, so powerful that the multi-dozen story building directly next to it - probably 200 feet high - was completely vaporized by it. It was obscene.
@BullsMahunny The sheer force and destruction were staggering… it’s hard to even process.
I was in Beirut when the explosion happened. It was apocalyptic.
Streets were full of rubble and bloodied people were walking everywhere confused. Nobody of these people knew where the explosion happened. When asked, everyone said the explosion was "everywhere".
💔😪🙏I was heartbroken for the people there
You can actually do the math because there's a timer @ 3:17 . The camera was about 2.3 miles away from the blast. Amazing!
3:37 we were standing on the field at Brinley Jr High School playing soccer when the first blast happened. We saw the big orange plume then saw the second explosion. Our school was all the way across the valley from Pepcon and we still felt the vibrations from it. Got sent home promptly after. I’ll never forget that day. 😬
We lived near Sahara and Decatur and heard it inside our apartment.
I was in class at Bonanza. After years of nuke testing, most of us shrugged. (How my memory has i guess) .
Its like a real life version of Fallout New Vegas... But not nuclear.
I went to Brinley from 92-94. The school was awesome back then, still had the pools with diving boards, , yup got to swim for P.E. And where I met life long friends. 19 yrs later my son went to Brinley, was cool walking around the school again. Off topic 🤦🏻♂️ but damn good memories
I was at Paul Culley Elementary School, which is pretty close by Brinley. I had a very similar experience. It was lunchtime and I was in the cafeteria, which was built like a bunker.
The footage at 0:43 was an underwater nuke test on May 16, 1958 codenamed Wahoo.
I was in elementary School and they showed 1st and 2nd grade kids the nuke tests films a lot of us were crying and just traumatized. I still get a knot in my stomach when I see them 🤢🤪
Kinda wild to think they just made clouds and possible rainstorms.
My favorite operation name is Upshot Knothole.
And the Uploader named this Video ,,,,,Biggest NON atomic explosions😊😅
Yep !!
A significant part of Beirut was saved by the massive grain silo that stood right next to the explosion. It was half-destroyed, but shielded everything behind it from the worst effects of the detonation.
@Bergermeister99 What a load of BS. That explosion was NOTHING like a MOAB explosion.
if it was half destroyed then it would've been a huge silo
@graham2088 Well, look at the photos. There´s one side missing, but the other is still standing, some 30 meters from the epicenter of the explosion. Its even in the video.
@Bergermeister99 Idiot conspriacy theory that was debunked on the same day the footage of the explosion was being shown on news channels around the world.
@graham2088 Grain is probably great at absorbing shockwaves, but I don't know if it was full or not.
Repcon is a place in the fallout New Vegas world 0:30
From what I've always understood about the peocon incident, that wasn't even all the fuel used in the rockets. That was just the oxidizer.
I avoid the intro..untill the logo appears..to prevent spoilers 😂..close your eyes
Based off of the largest explosion in the first video, the sound reached the camera 10 seconds and 7 frames (at 30 fps, this is roughly 0.233 seconds) after the blast. Since it took around 10.233 seconds for the sound to reach them, the source of the explosion was around 2.18 miles away, and it was still that loud.
That sounds about right. I live in Henderson not too far from where Pepcon used to be.
The mountain where it was filmed from is called "Black Mountain" by locals, but that isn't really its name. This peak (called "Henderson Benchmark" by peak baggers) is a volcanic cinder cone with the N/NW face collapsed, and is south of W Horizon Ridge Parkway and S Gibson Road if you want to look it up on Google Maps. The center of the explosion was just south of present day Corporate Park Drive. The whole area is densely inhabited today. They were filming off of Mountain Tower Road, a closed service road for the broadcast equipment up there. I suspect they were just south of the building labeled "KISF - FM 103.5", which Google maps shows as 2.45 miles away. If they were closer to the northernmost building they would be 2.37 miles. Just according to Google Maps.
There was a marshmallow factory right next to Pepcon that was destroyed as well.
Alrighty then. Cool. I don't math; I don't have to, I have a note.
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Thank you for that calculation!
Your monocular calibration is off by 0.00136 of a second.
Spooky. I was just about to post exactly the same comment!!!
APCP will not explode normally unless it is tightly contained. The Texas City disaster happened because all compartment bulkhead doors were latched and sealed, then they tried using steam to saturate the ammonia nitrate and put it out. But that only got it all up to the critical temperature and made it all detonate at once. OUCHIES
Oh damn. That made the explosion even more powerful. When the steam condensated to water again the explosion turned it into steam again. Adding volume to explosion. The water and steam being hot lowered the energy needed to set it off too.
Pop lived near Beaumont. He said night was day@
“No CGI can compete with real-life explosions.”
the second blast looked like a magnesium fire. So bright white. 5:40
The first explosion was multiple barrels of nitroglycerin, followed by thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate. When the fire fighters were spraying water onto it, it created a self fueling reaction that caused the ammonium nitrate to explode.
@KrypticKoder404thank you for the explanation.
@kland15your welcome :D
Seeing the shockwave & waiting for it to reach you is spectacular especially in person.
What's funny is most of this is real footage, so the sound wave takes like 8 seconds to reach the camera. You know you're watching doctored footage when you hear the explosion at the same time you see it.
This separation of experience (visual from auditory) is always so wild to me. It's like peeling existence apart and looking inside.
App.1000 ft.per second!
The shockwave coming from underground can be strong enough to break your legs .
@Therabbitmaze-v2j I did not know that.
We lived in Las Vegas when the Pepcon plant exploded. We could hear it indoors from several miles away.
*_Bruce Hulker_* : The Pepcon plant manager who died in the blast was wheelchair bound and unable to escape in time.
*_Roy Westerfield_* : Pepcon Plant operator who also died was a Polio survivor and as such his ability to mobilise was also compromised like Bruce Hulker the manager.
According to surviving Pepcon employees, both men, realising they would likely place the lives of their fellow workers in jeopardy if they allowed the employees to try and help them escape, they made the selfless brave choice to instead remain behind onsite, ensure all workers evacuated and to relay real time information on the dangerously dynamic emergency to first responders enroute, in effort to not risk even more lives.
These two selfless men likely saved many of the first responders that day.
I just thought we should remember these men for their incredibly brave and selfless actions that day.
RIP
BRUCE HULKER
ROY WESTERFIELD.
Well said❤🙏
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Why did this comment not get more likes is really sad
As someone stuck in a chair, wish this was an option at times.
The 1947 Texas City, Texas explosions of two ships carrying ammonium nitrate was larger than most, if not all of these, and one was caught on film. You should check it out.
Yeah, the Texas City disaster was really bad but there wasn't film of the blasts, only the aftermath.
@thewaywardwind548Texas City resident here,there is video of the first explosion of the ship named Grandcamp, it was caught by a woman who was told to leave the port area. She drove a little over 1 mile, to a dike that sticks into Galveston Bay.
@thewaywardwind548pretty sure the Halifax explosion was ever larger, which is crazy since is also ship related
The RAF Fauld explosion was a military accident which occurred at 11:11 am on Monday, 27 November 1944 at the RAF Fauld underground munitions storage depot in Staffordshire, England. It was one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history and the largest on UK soil.
As China has a history of downplaying loss of life, you can take to the bank the loss of life was in the thousands not hundreds
The Beirut explosion was said to be equivalent to 1 kiloton. The smallest Nuclear bomb which was dropped on Japan was 15 kiloton equivalent. FIFTEEN times larger than Beirut. Back in the 80s B-52s routinely carried weapons of between 180 kilotons and 400 kiloton yield. Unimaginable power. TWELVE of them !
There are tactical nuclear weapons and neutron bombs with a similar or smaller yield than the Beirut explosion.
The soviets dropped a 50Megaton nuke over Siberia, and if it wasn’t for a last minute decision by the designer, it would have been twice as big.
There might be one bigger though, a backyard bomb called Project Sundial, Edward Teller was a sociopath. A bomb so big, it doesn’t matter where you place it, the effect is the same everywhere on earth
Videos like these show just how slow sound travels.
You forgot the Halifax harbour explosion
The Beirut explosion was actually predicted and worried about by a heap of people, workers etc. but the corrupt government officials didn't care, it wasn't their problem etc. It's a tragedy because it was totally preventable but nobody was incentivised to do anything about it.
Aren't many accidents, explosions, etc. preventable?
Pepco for example. If they didn't weld next to AN barrels (like seriously, WTF?!!), if they didn't store the amounts they did, if they had proper fire suppression in place etc. it could have been prevented.
I think it's preventable in most cases.
But accidents do happen and preventing all dangers is probably next to, if not completely, impossible.
common priorities of a CAPITALIST 🙊 system - normalized irresponsibilities are wherever you look the decline etc etc... it is that, and that is systemic, and we need to drop the era of insane mental gymnastics by start actually talking about this
1:29 for those who played bf2042 will recognize this view
I loved that game. Used to rig up the missile silos with rdx and ap mines n camp with my sniper rifle
Was 2142 though wasn’t it?
@fausto80look up battlefield 2042 "Orbital"
@fausto80lol
Some of the best visuals that light is indeed insanely faster than sound.
Duh...🙄
@verahawley9625and your last name?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣@PureNRG2
16:30. Hold my beer. 😂😂
Approx 186,000 miles per second
I remember when that happened....
Those guys on the antenna mountain sure were right time, right place.
Wow! This is unlike anything I thought I would see. Great footage and good documentation
Hi Matthew Santoro 👋 I literally googled you to find out the iconic voice behind Underworld🎉
Matthew Santoro is still on RUclips?
I guess the narrator has never driven home with me from Taco Bell.
ss about your intimacy issues
AI is always with you silly
3:46 why did they keep making fuel nobody was using and then store it half assed i'm so glad i'm not that stupid
They had leftover fuel from when the space program was still going, but when it was abruptly stopped due to the challenger disaster, they had a surplus.
I’d imagine why they didn’t take it somewhere safer to store was because it would be hard to transport or because they had the facilities on site to store it, and the welder/whoever decided it was a good idea to use something that flings sparks at flammable fuel didn’t account for said fuel.
1:38 Look at that scorpion in the sky! That's wild!
the largest explosive noise ever recorded was the Island of Krakatoa in 1883
I heard the blast wave travelled over the entire world twice!
Really? Lets hear it.....go ahead.....play it.
I think Krakatoa may have this beat several thousand times over.
Krakatoa wasn't actually that big
But it was massively over hyped on TripAdvisor 👍
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It was heard as far away as Europe, according to people's testimony. It created a nuclear winter world wide.
They're only comparing man made explosions
Not caused by humans, and Mt.Tambora was several times larger than Krakatoa
Not as big, but since I'm only 2 miles from ground zero, the fireworks explosion in Esparto ca (July 1 2025) felt apocalyptic. The Shockwave was like an earthquake. The sound was deafening. And the mushroom cloud was terrifying.
My favorite part was waiting for the sonic boom after the blast, and having to wait some more to skip the youtube ad
Don't you just an ad just before a shockwave, or before a guitar solo? I just live without them now /s
Do RUclips Premium. Worth every single penny. And you’ll wonder how you’ve lived without it. Of course, that advice is coming from a severely strung out YT addict.
@dr.OgataSerizawaliterally. Hate that I spend $18+ on yet another subscription but premium is so worth it.
@dr.OgataSerizawaI have it. People ask why I don't have movie apps like Hulu, but I have hundreds of videos on overstuffed playlists waiting to be watched.
One of my cousins' fireworks events was almost big enough
12:33 unarmed munitions, does not mean inert. For the movement and storage of ammunition to be 100% safe you would need to take all the gunpowder out of the cartridges.
More significantly.. Why was it being filmed, and at Night ❓
It is always sad and tragic about those who die in massive explosions, but from a scientific, physical and visual perspective, us humans are just in awe by them and always will be. That's why videos like this are so interesting, thanks :)
I was working at Sahara and Boulder highway in Las Vegas when pepcon blew up.I felt the blast and witnessed it all. Boom 💥 me and a friend jumped in a car and drove on the then under construction 🏗 highway towards Henderson Nevada. It was quite an exciting day.The blast imploded every garage door within eight miles. Of the plant. That day in may nineteen eighty eight was quite a scary day. May 4th 1988.
Yea, lets do some welding next to some barrels of rocket fuel, naww... we don't need a fire watch.
Ripple Rock wasn't anywhere near Vancouver, it was just outside of Campbell River on Vancouver Island. That's the difference between Mexico and New Mexico.
Came to say this
Yes i have been there a couple of times
Ripple rock was the real life version of ship breaker bay from game of thrones, before the blast.
I can’t imagine creating tunnels that deep and that far under the water because of any leakage that could happen while workers were working on the tunnels. That would have freaked me out.
@dunlop64 Same here. Obviously they did not do very good job on researching this this.
Makes me wonder about the rest on this videos content.
6:46 the craziest part of this is that they actually went to jail.
No it's not. This is a normal thing to happen. The craziest thing is you westerners are so conditioned to corruption that your executives designate a fall guy and let all executives away with it. Like your bankers when they 'lose' all the money.
100k in fines and 1 year in jail for billions of dollars of damage and the loss of over 150 lives seems like an injustice.
@johnmelrose3774Nope, that's not how it works. Comparing Chinese corruption to western country corruption is actually crazy.
It should have been prison
00:56 The camera quality is way better in 1958 than most of the mobile cameras now.
Because the 1958 footage was filmed on a proper camera.
Fantastic video, and great footage. Thanks!
I noticed you included the nation of Taiwan in the map of China at 4:28
You may not be aware if this, but Taiwan is not part of China at all.
Just wait
I'll go one step further, Taiwan is the only true inheritor of the Chinese identity. The CCP is a parasitic placeholder.
Not yet.....!?!
PEPCON was also built over the top of a natural gas line. SMH
It's because they used natural gas. A factory that uses water will be by water lines. If they need a train, then train tracks. You act like building near infrastructure is some crazy 🤪 idea. OMFG, they built on a gas line! Yeah, genius, the place uses gas for the dryers. Of course, it's going to have access to natural gas. 🙄
@ManMountainMetals Literally ON TOP of a gas line, which leaked, feeding the fire.
This really makes you think about how big a nuke blast is.
These explosions just makes the scale of nuclear explosions even more insane. The amount of fuel or ordinance or explosives needed to even get a fraction the size of a nuke is mind boggling.
The Beirut desaster is heartbreaking. The city had just about recovered from the civil war. Imagine being one of the port officials who had for seven years tried to get rid of the stuff, knowing full well how dangerous it was, but no one cared... Also, adding to the tragedy: That big silo building right next to it, with all the yellow stuff spilled out after the blast?
Yeah.
That was the state wheat reserve....
That was no accident neither.
@paul756uk2 It was gross negligence on part of the ship owner, and state authorities, but not the harbor authorities. Or what do you mean?
@paavobergmann4920not a false flag by Israel then? I mean that was a big explosion for a fireworks factory. As the saying goes, the world is a stage.
@paul756uk2 That was not a firework factory, it was a harbor warehouse holding 3500t of mining grade ammonium nitrate from a derelict russian-owned moldovian freighter that was impounded due to safey concerns eight years earlier. What caused the fire was apparently the same as the PEPCON-desaster: welding work. Do you think Israel sent a welder to PEPCON? Why?
Yes, I know, Israel repeatedly bombed Hezbollah in Lebanon, in breach of international law, and does clearly commit warcrimes on a daily basis in Gaza. That alone is not evidence they blew up Beirut. And why would they want to do that? And even if we can construct a motive, that´s not even indication, that´s still pure Conspiracy theory. We do not need to invent crimes for our own emotional benefit. Just because something horrible happens doesn´t automatically mean the entitiy you despise is behind it. Please, this was a horrible catastrophe, let´s not degrade it to fodder for CT. Unless there is clear evidence of foul play and direct israeli interference, this is an accident. i watched dozens of hours of footage, analysis and documentaries, there is nothing that doesn´t check out or even hints at foul play. It was a desaster waiting to happen until it did, for all we know. Next we believe the Oppau explosion was caused by french agents provocateurs....( it was not, it was caused by complacency and negligence)
@paul756uk2 the warehouse, afaik, held AN, old tires, and fireworks. That´s not a good mix under a sheet metal roof under the blazing sun. Putting that next to the grain reserve is asking for trouble. But the stuff had been lying there for eight years, and there is a sad reason for this: necessity and lack of options. The ship was in danger of sinking in the harbor, and needed to be unloaded, and so they needed storage space for 3500t , asap. And this warehouse was the only option they had. And it had been there for eight years. If someone wanted to use it as a ginormous bomb, why eight years later? Lebanon was just about to stabilise, citizens demanded reforms form the government, why blow it up then and not earlier? I thought about this particular CT a lot (hence the wall of text), it doesn´t check out, at all. Leaves more puzzles than it promises easy answers.
You could have added the West Texas fertilizer plant explosion!
Thank you for that! That definitely could have been included!!
This is nothing...the largest non-nuclear explosions happen daily after a night at Taco Bell.
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Son…….thats Grade D Beef, not……..ok, nvm, you’re correct.
Damn bro
Took alot to come up with that original joke huh. In a video about people dying from explosions.
2:39 just watched the warehouse to the left. It gets fully vaporised with the blast.
This is why i dont light my farts anymore😂
6:25 Ayyo, wtf? This is literally the kind of calculation I normally only hear on Death Battle. I'll never understand humanity.
please explain: seems we are all asleep
1:00. Please review if you’re wondering why a specific explosion was not covered here. We know there were a lot more, but this reasonable restriction was put in place. 👍👍
The biggest non nuclear explosion happened in Halifax Canada in 1917. Nearly 2000 people died and the explosion was heard over 420Km away from the blast. 2nd non nuclear happened when a volcano exploded underwater in the sea in Tonga Jan 22 2022.
You forget Krakatoa?
@underworld 10:00 this is nowhere Vancouver. It is between north Vancouver Island and the mainland and discovery Island. Campbell river is the closest city/town to it.
2:25 he had polio and mobility issues too. So brave
The announcer boy completely missed the Texas City massive explosion in 1947'
Very similar to the Lebanon explosion
Two ships full of ammonium nitrate exploded killing 581 people and destroying much of the town
Ammonium nitrate is mainly use as fertilizer for farm crops.
But was it caught on film/video? The content creator specifically stated that only explosions captured on film would be covered in this video. Otherwise, he would have had to include the Halifax, Nova Scotia explosion on 6 December 1917 which happened when the US tramp-steamer Imo collided with the French ammunition ship Mont Blanc. This caused a fire on board the Mont Blanc resulting in an explosion subsequently calculated to be the equivalent of 2.9 kilotons of TNT. This killed at least 1,782 and injured upwards of 9,000 people. An area of over 1.6 square kilometres (400 acres) was completely destroyed by the explosion, and the harbour floor was momentarily exposed by the volume of water that was displaced. A tsunami was formed by water surging in to fill the void; it rose as high as 18 metres (60 ft) above the high-water mark on the Halifax side of the harbour. Most buildings within a 1.6km radius received catastrophic damage.
I remember seeing clips of that PEPCON explosion back around the time it happened. It amazed me just how long it took for the sound of the shockwave from the explosion to reach the guy filming.
Sounds travels at only 300 meters/second. Now imagine the light from distant stars and galaxies takes hundreds to billions of years to reach us at the speed of light 300,000,000 meters/sec. The distances in our Universe are beyond human scales.
@BillAnt
299,792,458 m/s, actually.
186,282.4 miles/sec.
@dr.OgataSerizawa - I wrote that for simplicity, the difference is practically irrelevant.
4:23 you mistakenly included Taiwan when you highlighted China.
Correct, despite CCP's desires for that to be true. 😅
I pray for anyone hurt by those tragic explosions and their loved ones.
Fined $100k+ BUT $1B in damages. The math ain't Mathing. 6:34
Because it was UNINTENTIONAL If you accidentally bumped into a waiter in a restaurant and caused him to drop his plates it wouldn't be fair for you to be expected to pay the full monetary value of the meal back to the restaurant.
The largest nob-nuclear explosions in human history would be Krakatoa and the Tunguska Event.
i had a HUGE nob nuclear explosion once
I wish there was good video footage of the explosion that happened in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada back in 1917 as it's still considered to be the biggest non nuclear explosion to have ever happened to date.
A lot of misguided people consider it the largest non-nuclear explosion. But they are wrong. It was the Wanggongchang Explosion. Which dwarfed the Halifax one. It isn't brought up a lot because it happened in 1626, and nobody can really explain why it was so powerful as there was a large black powder factory in the area, but its yield was between 10-20kts, compared to the Halifax 2.9kts. Even a meteor strike has been theorized.
@Adino1 something that big that Long ago? I wonder what could've happened to set that all off
It was mentioned that the Tianjin explosion was so big and so powerful it could be seen from space.
It's so cool to see the difference in time lapse between seeing the explosion, then hearing it.
Pity that they don't even mention the Halifax Nova Scotia Explosion.
because it has to do with Canada .... if this video is American , nothing can be bigger , better , number one in the America's eyes , especially when it comes to Canada .... Americans are Masters of the Universe , didn't you know .........
Ammonium Nitrate is explosive, but its primary use is as a high-nitrate fertilizer, not bomb making.
It is used extensively as an explosive in mining and construction.
The largest in the UK is estimated to have been RAF Fauld. The explosion of around 4.5 kilotons occured in November 1944. The entire area including farms and a reservoir were wiped off the map.
7:45 used primarily in fertilizer
ah that nothing you should see me light my farts
Fun fact: Russias largest nuclear weapon tested (tsar bomba) is around 50 thousand times the power of the Beirut explosion.
And 3000 times stronger than any nuke used against humans
It was a 100MT design, but their bomber wasn't able to fly with that large of a bomb, so it was reduced to 57MT
Incredible and terrifying at the same time. It's mind-blowing to see the scale of these explosions-hard to imagine the sheer force involved without seeing it! 19:35
The 12:11 RIPPLE ROCK
that was some serious work just to move 10-20 meters deep or so of rock from just below the surface. Now days you could just drill it, pack the holes and blow it from top down. I guess the technology wasn’t there at the time. If they could have just waited a little to start the project it would have been much easier.
They could have just moved in a floating drilling rig or a drill ship and then drilled deep holes, pack them with explosives, cap the holes with several yards of concrete….
And bang. It’s done. It’s actually easier to blow rock under water as far as blasting kinetics goes.
Door and window makers rubbing there hands to this video 😂
So the first one they camera guy was like 3 miles away from the boom based on how long it took for the shockwave to hit em
Krakatoa
"Big BaDa Boom"
that beirut explosion reminds me of what happened at BASF in germany back in the 1920s. 1000s of tons of fertilizer in a silo blew up, creating a shockwave that could still be heard in munich, 400 km (250 miles) away.
decades later i visited one of those silos. i don't remember the exact size, but they are HUGE. olympic-sized swimming pools are nothing compared to those silos.
edit: fixed a typo
BASF: we dont make explosions. We make them bigger.
Beruit body recovery 100%
WTC on 9/11 body recovery less than ten percent
That was the Oppau Explosion; huge amounts of ammonium nitrate (AN) were stored improperly, absorbed moisture, and caked. The AN was mixed with ammonium sulphate, and everyone with power and authority in the plant assumed that the mixture was absolutely insensitive, and that it would not become separated again by itself. Management was so convinced of the stability of the mixed AN, that workers emptying out the silos were tasked with using explosives to blast apart large chunks of the mixed AN that had caked together, allowing it to be more easily shoveled out of the silo.
That sped up the process, and worked as intended until it didn't one day.
Please don't be naive to the negligence of Lebanon... They knew that the ammonium nitrate was stored there for far too long. Multiple parties have warned them and pleaded with them to remove the neglected chemical. People knew, but they just didn't do anything about it. I don't think ANYONE who had ANY power to stop that disaster was surprised in the slightest. Terrible people who don't care about the lives of civilians.
True , Lebanon was like an unplanned time bomb.
You have clearly never heard of my father sneezing...
18:06 Why was that man left sitting there?
8:49 S-Six seven..? 😈
I clicked on timed just to see this
You're disgusting, 218 people where killed. This isn't the time for jokes.
Ammonium nitrate is fertiliser. It can be used as an explosive with some additions, but in the Beirut incident it was intended as fertiliser.
Yeah...I remember the OKC bombing. I think it put Ryder trucks out of business cuz nobody could see one parked anywhere w/o calling the police.
It was mixed, was supposed to go to a mining operation, but crooked people held the load hostage extorting more money. Captain just gave up the load and left.
3:05 did the sound come 3 seconds after the explosion is that wind kicked up by the explosion subsonic sonic?
Sound waves travel slower the further away you are from the blast
It took a full 10 seconds for the sound to reach the cameraman
@5:50 how do you say WTF in mandrin?
“Ooh, that’s gonna be loud.”
you know it’s bad when you know it’s gunna hurt your ears
Texas City, TX suffered two explosions in 1947, i believe. A French cargo ship, carrying about 2,300 tons of Ammonium Nitrate exploded. Killing ALL of the fireman on scene. Blew two planes out of the sky, shattered windows in Houston and Galveston, killed people in the THOUSANDS, and sent the ships anchor through the air 1.6 miles, where it still sits. The next day, a second ship carrying about the same amount of Amonium Nitrate exploded, with similar, maybe even more magnitude. It is said that the explosions were the same magnitude as the Hiroshima A-Bomb. I may be off on some of my numbers, but I'd say it makes the list, although not caught on camera.
My great uncle “Kick” was one of the first medical people to reach the place. IIRC, 581 dead, lots more injured. Kick bandaged like mad and got people into whatever vehicles were still working, and headed them to the hospital. He wound up settling in Texas City because he kept taking care of those people.
There is so much incredible footage of the 2021 Beirut explosion, I'm surprised you only showed one. No shade thrown, btw. Great vid!👍
The wedding one is my favorite. It almost looks cinematic.
635,000 metric tons may not sound like much but you must consider that a metric ton is 280 lbs more than a standard ton
One metric ton is 2,204 lbs
A ton of anything is a lot. So by doing math, we see that (a lot)*(635,000) is A LOT.
These clips show just how fast things can go wrong
It's interesting how, in these films you see the explosion. But you have to wait a few seconds to hear it!!
The N1 Rocket explosion wiped out ALL of the highest levels of Russia's Space Program. And with them went to future of their accomplishments and ability to compete NASA, they still managed to do some incredible things, but most of it relied upon things the deceased leader of the program had already established. it was a devastating blow to Rus Cosmos.
Failure leads to improvements, that's just how rocketry works.
That's what happens when political imperatives drive scientific endeavors.
@BillAnt
Life works that way too, imho.
@dr.OgataSerizawa - For most yes, unfortunately some win the Darwin Awards. lol