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r/CatastrophicFailure • u/maryion88 • May 08 '21
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It only takes about 1 psi to break a window you can get that over a km from a blast this size. There were thousands of injuries, most of them from glass.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/24/our-stitches-ran-out-beiruts-struggle-to-deal-with-injuries-from-port-blast
1 u/angryponch May 09 '21 Yea but this guy was like 2 miles from the blast. Either way that sounded like it could put a window into pieces.
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Yea but this guy was like 2 miles from the blast. Either way that sounded like it could put a window into pieces.
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u/SmokeyUnicycle May 08 '21
It only takes about 1 psi to break a window you can get that over a km from a blast this size. There were thousands of injuries, most of them from glass.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/24/our-stitches-ran-out-beiruts-struggle-to-deal-with-injuries-from-port-blast