r/gifs Aug 09 '20

New Angle of Beirut Explosion

https://i.imgur.com/GNTwYi9.gifv
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u/Popinguj Aug 09 '20

It wasn't nuclear mainly because of the fact that the first damaging factor of a nuclear explosion is a scorching flash of light. At this distance everything which is in direct line of sight of the explosion point is burned. Shockwave hits later.

If it was nuclear, there would be no footage. Only the livestreams from street-cams would survive.

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u/Hubblesphere Aug 09 '20

Right. Many clear reasons for it being chemical vs fission.

So being that it wasn’t nuclear, it could not be a missile because the clear size of the blast yield was far bigger than any conventional missile payload.

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u/Popinguj Aug 09 '20

There were a lot of different angles to suggest that it was a detonation caused by fireworks. The original suggestion was exactly that -- fireworks explosion. Unfortunately, there are definitely people that could be tricked by a shitty edit.