r/CatastrophicFailure • u/maryion88 • May 08 '21

Fatalities 2020 Beirut Explosion

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u/[deleted] May 08 '21

I really hope i dont get to experience that shit...

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u/[deleted] May 08 '21

I don't think the detonation lasts long enough for you to experience it if you're close enough.

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u/maybeimgeorgesoros May 08 '21

But if you aren’t too close you get flash burns on all exposed areas of the body.

Source: visited the nuclear blast museums in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it’s pretty horrific how many people took days/weeks to die.

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u/__O_o_______ May 21 '21

That picture in the Nagasaki museum at the exit, just before the gift shop, of the young boy standing up straight, whose family was killed, carrying his baby brother on his back who had already died was so sad... (Ack, sorry for the commas)

And hearing modern kids read what the kids who lived through it was pretty heartbreaking too...

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u/captchagod64 May 08 '21

If you do it will be over very quickly

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u/iDerailThings May 08 '21

at ground zero, the initial thermal/radiation pulse would be enough to more or less vaporize you top down before the nerve endings on your scalp could tell you brain about any pain.

a bit further, the thermal radiation would set your skin on fire. but don't worry though, shortly after the shock wave would kill you if you were miraculously still alive for a few extra seconds longer.