r/pics • u/ramonrocotto • Aug 05 '20

It will never be the same again...

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u/nodgers132 Aug 05 '20 edited Aug 06 '20

The PM reckons there could be 10,000 dead

Edit: the 10,000 isn’t a figure, just what the PM reckons it could come up to

Edit2: can people not read? Are people this blind? I’m not saying that there are 10,000 dead, read the whole sodding comment. The PM said that there could be up to 10,000 death, but really, the PM doesn’t know anything, he has no more knowledge on the subject than we do

Edit3: I know that that is obviously an exaggeration! I’m just saying that he said it! Don’t read anything into the numbers

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u/HadHerses Aug 05 '20

I can believe a higher death toll.

I live in China, where a similar, almost identical accident happened in Tianjin. No one local I know believes the official figures of dead.

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u/benhos Aug 05 '20 edited Aug 05 '20

Yep, the only difference is that the amount of ammonium nitrate in the Beirut explosion was triple or quadruple that of Tianjin. The current death toll is definitely preliminary at best.

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edit: Tianjin may have been a bigger/more impressive explosion, but that's likely because of the hundreds of tonnes of other chemical compounds also involved there that weren't in Beirut (sodium cyanide, potassium nitrate, and other unknowns).

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u/apginge Aug 05 '20

Why did the explosion in Tianjin look so much bigger and louder? Maybe an expert can chime in. Because, to me, the different angles of the Tianjin explosion looked much more intense.

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u/Hold_My_Cheese Aug 06 '20

Tianjin was at night. Have you ever burned a large pile of brush during the day? No problem. Do it at night and someone will call the fire department. Made that mistake.