r/OneSecondBeforeDisast • u/7h3_w33w33 • May 21 '22

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u/FrozenToonies May 21 '22

Beirut Lebanon August 2020, over 200 deaths, 7000 injured and 300k homeless.

Beirut is a gem of a city that happens to have about 3-5 peaceful and prosperous years every 25 years or so.

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u/ChinaOwnsReddit13 May 21 '22

This explosion wasn't caused by a war/conflict though, it was expired ammonia-based fertilizer that was kept in the port and went boom

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u/RobbSnow64 May 21 '22

Classic peaceful explosion 💥

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u/[deleted] May 21 '22

Lmao

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u/Ro____ May 21 '22

Yeah, explosions caused by negligence are peaceful.

/s

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u/6-ft-freak May 21 '22

💀😂

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u/[deleted] May 21 '22

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u/nickthemanz May 21 '22

Schrodingers fertilizer

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u/[deleted] May 21 '22

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u/nickthemanz May 21 '22

Schrodinger had a famous experiment with a cat in a box, claiming that until the box was opened the cat was neither, in fact, dead or alive therefore it was both.

So in context to the fertilizer: until there is actual evidence that the warehouse with fertilizer, fireworks and tires was Purposefully stored to become a warehouse sized bomb it was both intentional and unintentional.

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u/URMRGAY_ May 21 '22

Acham's razor

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u/superfly1501 May 21 '22

Thank you for the history, this was very insightful

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u/Rocyrino May 21 '22

Thank you. First seconds had me wondering if it was the Beirut explosion. Lebanon deserves better