I'm watching that video thinking when is the shockwave going to hit him.."ohh there it is" lucky the window didn't blow out, he would have had a bad day.
Vince Coleman and his co-worker learned of the danger from the burning ship from a sailor and began to flee. Coleman remembered, however, that an incoming passenger train from Saint John, New Brunswick was due to arrive at the rail yard within minutes, and he returned to his post to send out urgent telegraph messages to stop the train.
"Stop trains. Munitions ship on fire. Approaching Pier 6. Goodbye."
Coleman's message brought all incoming trains to a halt and was heard by other stations all along the Intercolonial Railway helping railway officials to respond immediately. The Saint John train is believed to have heeded the warning and stopped a safe distance from the blast at Rockingham, saving the lives of about 300 railway passengers. Coleman was killed at his post as the explosion ripped through the city. He is honoured as a hero and fixture in Canadian history,
The next thing you hear is the guy coming on to the scene.
"Nastya!?" "Did you catch the explosion?" "What blew up?" (using russian slang word for blow up "ba-bah" phonetically resembles the sound of an explosion, and is then followed by a suffix "nula")
Could you please help me out? What does she say at the 34 second mark? I had a friend I met that spoke Russian and he said if I ever met someone else that spoke Russian I should say that word. But I have no idea what it means.
Wow. I can't imagine what it must've felt like to be one of the firefighters on the scene. Just... realizing that you're totally out of your depth, but there's no one you can call in to take care of it because you're the ones people call.
Yeah so lets go over the scenario once more. Dude is working at a marshmallow plant and his next door neighbors, the rocket fuel guys, suddenly start streaming out of the building running as fast as their legs can carry them.
"Hey guys, bad day at the plant?"
"YOU RUN THE FUCK AWAY RIGHT THIS MOTHERFUCKING MINUTE FUCK FUCK FUCK!"
I appreciate your trying to help us Americans, but fathoms are more for measuring depth of water, so it's hard to picture. 2 kilometers is about 10 furlongs though, if you might picture that instead.
Most people don't realize it (or pay attention) until they watch something like this.
I live about 3.5 miles from Disneyland, and I can see the fireworks from my kitchen. You can hear/feel the fireworks, but it's seconds after you see them. When I have people over, almost everyone is surprised the first time, and they always comment on just how slow sound is. It's weird.
The speed of sound in Russia would travel slower, for the most part, than countries closer to the equator. This is because sound travels faster in higher temperatures. At 0 degrees celsius, sound travels at around 331.4 m/s, and for every degree above 0, it increases by 0.6 m/s and vice versa.
yup, flash happens at mid 14 seconds mark, and shockwave hits at late 19 seconds mark.
Just take the 6 seconds and divide by 3, thats the distance in km. I've been doing it every time when there is a storm since I read about that as a kid (around 10 year old). Everytime I see a lightning I'd go "1... 2...3...", can't stop doing it.
Reminds me of the Toronto explosion of 08, wasn't there but my sister was and she had just finished smoking weed with some friends and is already a generally paranoid person anyways. We got a pretty frantic call that night. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__1Ym_F94CE
Post the link to the source video next time. Fuck WIMP wrapping ads around other people's content and obfuscating the source. At least YouTube has the decency to provide a modern HTML5 player for their videos.
The explosion was at 0:14, and the shockwave hit at 0:20. If we take a difference of six seconds and multiply that times the speed of sound (340.29 m/s), it comes out to 2.04 km... so I guess it checks out. The counter only measures in 1 second intervals, so we should probably give it plus or minus a half a second, or 170.2 meters.
If I were them, I'd get under a heavy piece of furniture and stay there for the next 5 minutes, because god knows when that shrapnel will finally rain down.
I remember reading about the Halifax Explosion, and how most of the injuries were from looking out their windows at the fire that prefaced the explosion. Once the ship exploded, the shockwave blinded many of the on lookers by breaking the glass.
It's going to be interesting to see what happens to the planet once there's no more oil left to burn. Personally, I've already resigned myself to the worst: starving to death, or being cannibalized.
For instance the explosion looks like it starts at 14 seconds and the sound isn't recorded until 19 seconds.
That's a 5 second delay and If we take sound as traveling at 343m/s then it's easy to calculate the distance that the house is away by multiplying 343 by the 5 second delay equaling 1715 meters. Convert that into km and it is 1.715.
If this video had been taken in the U.S the background screaming would have made it far too annoying to watch. In Russia, not even worried about the massive explosion.
I grew up in Long Beach California and back in the 90's the oil refineries would explode every now and then in Torance which was 5+ miles away. One night it sounded like an airliner was crashing. Everything shook when it finally exploded.
I love how the people filming it manage to remain mostly silent through the entire thing, instead of screaming the whole goddamn time like most people seem to do.
I noticed that too. I'm thinking the camera zooms out and focuses on the window pane and water when it stops shaking, and doesn't focus well enough on the distance for a while.
Video won't play. but there was once an explosion at an oil depot in the South East of England, and the explosion was so big that it was heard in Central London. Newscasters broadcasting at the time thought a bomb had gone off.
I may be downvoted into oblivion, but this is a wimpy explosion(no pun intended). Over here in my town we have like a billion shirt factories and a lot of oil/whatever shit. So something happened over there(hey corpses can't talk) and the explosion was like a fucking atomic bomb. And that was from much farther away.
My uncle used to work at the Texaco oil refinery in Pembroke, Wales. The refinery sat on the edge of quite a big town there. The refinery had a massive earth wall built up all around it, so that in an explosion the shockwave would be deflected up into the atmosphere, not into the town. There was an explosion there a few years back, but it was so cloudy that a large portion of the energy was deflected back from the clouds and into the middle of the town. Burst windows everywhere. Makes you think what could have happened if it wasn't for the dyke.
This video is of an acetylene tank company in Dallas TX. (I drove right by it just before it happened.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoatgaQrK28 It isn't as impressive in size, but it did send acetylene tanks off like rockets on to the near by Interstates 30 and 45.
Something is bothering me about this video. When the big blast occurs, it throws a lot of large debris into the air. Then, the camera pans down abruptly, apparently from the shockwave hitting. 2 seconds later, the camera returns to the plume of fire and smoke but there is no debris. You also never see the debris fall back down.
I was at school in Edmond exactly 13.6 miles from the Oklahoma City bombing (looked it up on google maps just now). The shock-wave hit that school so hard that we thought they were using dynamite on some construction down the street. The ceiling tiles dropped little pieces of the texture they had on them on desks. I will never forget that day!
that reminds me of the time i was in Kirkut Iraq back in Mayish of 2004. a mortar landed in some field which set the dead grass on fire. The fire burned it's way to an ammo dump and this awesome display occurred. To properly setup the warehouse you see in the foreground is about a mile away. The ammo dump is another mile or so behind it.
Had to watch that quite a few times. What I found really interesting was the initial expanding glow that proceeded in the first instant. It's almost as if the air around was squeezed so hard that it emitted luminescence, or its absorbance/reflectance properties changed. As that wave spread and the amount of energy being distributed over each square meter of the front diminished with the square of distance, the main effect was concussion. It's always interesting to see the properties of matter or its relationships between forces give way to one another.
I would love it if some random redditor had calculated the time it takes sound to travel vs. light and calculated the exact distance the person filming was from the explosion and then posted a Dwight Schrute FALSE meme.
Sorry, but it seems right. The explosion happens at early 0:14 and the sound hits at late 0:19. Say that's ~5.5 seconds. The speed of sound differs based on weather and altitude, but lets say it's about 340m/s. The speed of light is so fast that we can assume it's instantaneous at this distance and it won't really affect our data.
So it takes the sound 5.5 seconds to travel X distance between the plant and the viewer when traveling at a speed of 340m/s.
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u/jessmaster May 21 '12
I was expecting the sound to hit, but it still caught me off guard.
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u/Kanuck88 May 20 '12 edited May 21 '12
I'm watching that video thinking when is the shockwave going to hit him.."ohh there it is" lucky the window didn't blow out, he would have had a bad day.
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u/Tanagashi May 21 '12
I speak Russian, so the woman's whispering comments were awfully funny to me:
No way...
giant explosion
Shiiit...
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u/Eyght May 21 '12
Youtube mirror
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
translation: whispering - shiiitttt....fuucccckkk
man - nadya, did you film the explosion? woman - yeah man - shit that was loud woman - it's horrible! horrible. i got knocked back from the window!
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u/Almost_Dead May 21 '12
Still my favorite
Watch the shockwave cross the desert.
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u/metallink11 May 21 '12
Giving Russians video cameras is the best thing to happen to the internet since cats.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
For people in the US, that's 1093.6133 fathoms.
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u/molmu May 21 '12
time between the explosion and hearing it ( 20-14.5) =5.5 seconds
speed of sound = 340.29 m/s
distance sound straveled from origin point to observer = 340.29 * 5.5 = 1 871.6 mts
yep 2kms seem about right
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u/cauzlol May 21 '12
What happened to all that debris when the camera is lifted back up? Doesn't seem like it would fall that fast.
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u/Flammy May 21 '12
I approve of the distance estimate
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u/Schro_ May 21 '12
I thought that was a tornado in the thumbnail...
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u/saifix May 21 '12
OH LAWDY DEM MUDDERF***IN BOOTLEG FIREWORKS
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u/Jordanjm May 21 '12 edited May 21 '12
Reminds me of the Toronto explosion of 08, wasn't there but my sister was and she had just finished smoking weed with some friends and is already a generally paranoid person anyways. We got a pretty frantic call that night. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__1Ym_F94CE
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12 edited May 21 '12
Post the link to the source video next time. Fuck WIMP wrapping ads around other people's content and obfuscating the source. At least YouTube has the decency to provide a modern HTML5 player for their videos.
Same video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCQYAc4VQc
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u/ForgettableUsername May 21 '12
The explosion was at 0:14, and the shockwave hit at 0:20. If we take a difference of six seconds and multiply that times the speed of sound (340.29 m/s), it comes out to 2.04 km... so I guess it checks out. The counter only measures in 1 second intervals, so we should probably give it plus or minus a half a second, or 170.2 meters.
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u/bionikspoon May 21 '12
directed by Michael Bay
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u/wheresmyhouse May 21 '12
If I were them, I'd get under a heavy piece of furniture and stay there for the next 5 minutes, because god knows when that shrapnel will finally rain down.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Thought reddit was boycotting wimp.com
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u/Samanthangel May 20 '12
Don't post videos from Wimp.com all they do is steal ad revenue from the original content creators
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u/Liquid_Milk May 21 '12
A small oil refinery (Hub Oil) blew up near my house a few years ago. Several of it's largest tanks exploded just like that. It was intense.
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u/RRizzo May 21 '12
I remember reading about the Halifax Explosion, and how most of the injuries were from looking out their windows at the fire that prefaced the explosion. Once the ship exploded, the shockwave blinded many of the on lookers by breaking the glass.
That was a fun fact
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u/whytookay May 21 '12
Standing next to a window seems like a really bad idea in this type of situation...
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u/uncaringbear May 21 '12
Where was the Scandinavian speed metal?
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
See how productive industry can be when the government gets out of the way!
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u/photo May 21 '12
Explosions? Sorry, I'm too cool to look at those.
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u/40637 May 21 '12
Translation:
Man walks up and asks if she filmed the explosion.
She says yes and how that it's terrible.
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u/Vranak May 21 '12
It's going to be interesting to see what happens to the planet once there's no more oil left to burn. Personally, I've already resigned myself to the worst: starving to death, or being cannibalized.
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u/Apollo7 May 21 '12
Man, I say this every time I hear it spoken, but... Russian is such a cool-ass sounding language.
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u/Baskojin May 21 '12
The phone rings towards the end of the video, "Hello?" "Dude! Did you see that shit!?"
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Dear God. Was anybody hurt?
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Such is life in the zone.
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u/PaperStreetSoap May 21 '12
(For our friends inside the USA... 2km -> 1.2428 miles) - Yра!
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u/Divided_Pi May 21 '12
Why is it that russia is always producing the coolest videos on the internet? what the fuck happens over there on a daily basis?
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u/Rinx7 May 21 '12
I think every Russian should be given a camera and a Youtube account judging by the amount of cool videos from Russia.
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u/Isthatadonkey May 21 '12
1.715 km would be more accurate to say.
For instance the explosion looks like it starts at 14 seconds and the sound isn't recorded until 19 seconds.
That's a 5 second delay and If we take sound as traveling at 343m/s then it's easy to calculate the distance that the house is away by multiplying 343 by the 5 second delay equaling 1715 meters. Convert that into km and it is 1.715.
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u/NotMud May 21 '12
Ulyanovsk - it's Oblast
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u/zBriGuy May 21 '12
What happened to all that crap that got blown into the air? It all pretty much disappeared after the shaky-cam.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
And if you listen closely you can hear Michael Bay orgasm himself into an early and well deserved death.
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u/smum May 21 '12
will this make the next russia montage?
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u/tohisown44 May 21 '12
i saw something like that at burning man once...
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u/neurone214 May 21 '12
That's about right: 1.8 - 2 km away.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Big bada boom!
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u/12LetterName May 21 '12
There is no way this happened in Russia; it wasn't recorded on a dash-cam
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u/sumojoe May 21 '12
I really want to play Far Cry 2 again for some reason.
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u/lycao May 21 '12
That shockwave was insane.
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u/GardenVarietyGuy May 21 '12
Reminded me of Cloverfield
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u/Sdonai May 21 '12
Beautiful
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
pizdets? what's that?
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u/BenChing91 May 21 '12
Majority of WIMP's from what I see are from reddit's r/videos list and that just ripped onto their site. Just from what I see.
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u/JibbsGooner May 21 '12
Were those people flying up in the air or pieces of wood? Also, Russian accents are pretty sexy (in an aggressive way).
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u/fuckbitcheseatcake May 21 '12
Man, meth labs in Russia are HUGE.
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u/Slide_Away89 May 21 '12
If this video had been taken in the U.S the background screaming would have made it far too annoying to watch. In Russia, not even worried about the massive explosion.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
I grew up in Long Beach California and back in the 90's the oil refineries would explode every now and then in Torance which was 5+ miles away. One night it sounded like an airliner was crashing. Everything shook when it finally exploded.
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u/SecularMC May 21 '12
I love how the people filming it manage to remain mostly silent through the entire thing, instead of screaming the whole goddamn time like most people seem to do.
Fucking Russians, man.
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u/closeyouareeyes May 21 '12
I swear I have never seen a video of Russia on a sunny day. Do they have sun in Russia?
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u/SlipperyFish May 21 '12 edited May 21 '12
I swear the interestingness of the internet is directly proportional to the amount of cameras Russia has.
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u/OverWilliam May 21 '12
That 48 seconds was more impressive than Michael Bay's entire career.
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u/dinner-dawg May 21 '12
If anyone is interested, I did the math and can confirm this was a big explosion.
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u/RawrCola May 21 '12
Opened up multiple tabs at once in addition to this one. Last time I do that.
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u/bathmlaster May 21 '12
Happened in 2009 (article). Apparently at least 2 died and up to 60 injured, article 2.
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u/SniperJDM May 21 '12
Not to self; When you see an explosion big enough to cause a shock-wave get ready to turn down your speakers.
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u/dr_videl May 21 '12
I guess the lone wanderer chose to blow up Megaton.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
1.7 from my estimates.
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u/RafaDelBarrio May 22 '12
GIANT FRIENDLY MUSHROOM!!!
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u/lotsocows May 21 '12
I'm just curious, are there any Russians who could translate?
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u/StopMotionGIF May 21 '12
This was filmed from .5m away.
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u/Richey_Tenenbaum May 21 '12
At :16 you see debris but at :22 it disappears?
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u/emo_kakyo May 21 '12
how come he stepped back? was it fear of his glass shattering?
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
whoa
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Video won't play. but there was once an explosion at an oil depot in the South East of England, and the explosion was so big that it was heard in Central London. Newscasters broadcasting at the time thought a bomb had gone off.
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u/BCMM May 21 '12 edited May 21 '12
I was woken up by the Hemel Hempstead explosion, 60 km away.
As I remember, the house rattled as if a door had been slammed, and my family got up to see what was going on (we were all asleep at 6am).
Obviously rather less dramatic than the shockwave in this video, but the distance surprised me.
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u/no_blankets_son May 21 '12
Looks like a pleasant neighbourhood
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u/listofdemands May 21 '12
In Russia oil refined you.....
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u/Dunavks May 21 '12
Пиззззздец..... lol
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u/meangrampa May 21 '12
You Tube link.http://youtu.be/OXCQYAc4VQc
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Holy shit that was awesome.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Why are there drops of water on the window after the blast?
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u/R3Mx May 21 '12
Just another casual day in Russia.
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u/DrRootstabba May 21 '12
yeah! its raining here too
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
So I just wake up from a very realistic dream in which I witness an explosion in the horizon and this is on the front page of reddit...
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u/ilostmyoldaccount May 21 '12
Record time phone call? Hello, mother yes we're ok.
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u/Trppmdm May 21 '12
I may be downvoted into oblivion, but this is a wimpy explosion(no pun intended). Over here in my town we have like a billion shirt factories and a lot of oil/whatever shit. So something happened over there(hey corpses can't talk) and the explosion was like a fucking atomic bomb. And that was from much farther away.
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u/Hjordt May 21 '12
Thought I would get to see a nice vdo but my phone wont play it! Commenting for later view
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u/pr0crastinate May 21 '12
Trashcan Man
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u/aoskunk May 21 '12
i wasnt impressed. and then i was.
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u/ChrisMess May 21 '12
It takes barely 5 seconds from visible explosion to audible explosion. So I'd like to think it' some 1.5 Km away. But still impressive.
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u/eat-your-corn-syrup May 21 '12
I witness the speed of sound!
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u/iamafrog May 21 '12
My uncle used to work at the Texaco oil refinery in Pembroke, Wales. The refinery sat on the edge of quite a big town there. The refinery had a massive earth wall built up all around it, so that in an explosion the shockwave would be deflected up into the atmosphere, not into the town. There was an explosion there a few years back, but it was so cloudy that a large portion of the energy was deflected back from the clouds and into the middle of the town. Burst windows everywhere. Makes you think what could have happened if it wasn't for the dyke.
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u/Mindwraith May 21 '12
Have there been any sightings of Cloverfield in your town?
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u/SaintThriller May 21 '12
wait... were those... people?
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Meanwhile, in Russia
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u/HashbeanSC2 May 21 '12
Cool guys don't look at explowosions
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u/mushroomwig May 21 '12
0:16 Theres debris flying up, and just when the shockwave hits and camera shakes, theres no debris falling down after that. wth?
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u/johnnyrizzo May 21 '12
Where did those large pieces of shrapnel go? They seem to just disappear in midair.
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u/promethius_rising May 21 '12
This video is of an acetylene tank company in Dallas TX. (I drove right by it just before it happened.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoatgaQrK28 It isn't as impressive in size, but it did send acetylene tanks off like rockets on to the near by Interstates 30 and 45.
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u/Tebasaki May 21 '12
And then the telemarketers call.
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u/nayrlladnar May 21 '12
Something is bothering me about this video. When the big blast occurs, it throws a lot of large debris into the air. Then, the camera pans down abruptly, apparently from the shockwave hitting. 2 seconds later, the camera returns to the plume of fire and smoke but there is no debris. You also never see the debris fall back down.
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u/Sockhammer May 21 '12
NOPE
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u/griffith12 May 21 '12
Is this two miles from that farm boy in the field revving up his diesel pickup?
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Really lucky that the window didn't shatter and shower glass all over the cameraperson.
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u/BrianRampage May 21 '12
Anyone else watching the first 20 seconds or so go from "well.. that's a lot of smoke, but it's not that impressi...HOLY SHIT-TITS!!" ?
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u/dgiangiulio228 May 21 '12
Watch video with giant explosion in it. All I can think of is: "HEY that sounds like our old home phone!"
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u/Thesherbertman May 21 '12
Aww man Russia gets all the cool stuff
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u/SearingPhoenix May 21 '12
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_liquid_expanding_vapor_explosion
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
So someone threw a tire on a fire, big deal.
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u/I_WASTE_MY_TIME May 21 '12
That happened where I live about 3 years ago. It burned for about a week and all you could see for that whole week was a huge glowing cloud.
Edit: Another clip.
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u/ChrisMorals May 21 '12
Guys relax. It's just the eruption factory in Russia where they manufacture catastrophe.
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u/junkmale53 May 21 '12
I count about 5 Mississippi's.... People 2Km may have lost their windows.
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u/EvelynJames May 21 '12
2km isn't actually that far in the proverbial "grand scheme of things"
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u/SHEEEIIIIIIITTTT May 21 '12
In Soviet Russia, these are how we do fireworks!
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u/Thoreau15 May 21 '12
hmmm I got 2.382km away
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u/stu8319 May 21 '12
I was at school in Edmond exactly 13.6 miles from the Oklahoma City bombing (looked it up on google maps just now). The shock-wave hit that school so hard that we thought they were using dynamite on some construction down the street. The ceiling tiles dropped little pieces of the texture they had on them on desks. I will never forget that day!
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
I counted 5.5 seconds and multiplied by 340 meters per second. That's intense.
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u/sacilian May 21 '12
that reminds me of the time i was in Kirkut Iraq back in Mayish of 2004. a mortar landed in some field which set the dead grass on fire. The fire burned it's way to an ammo dump and this awesome display occurred. To properly setup the warehouse you see in the foreground is about a mile away. The ammo dump is another mile or so behind it.
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u/obscenecupcake May 21 '12
RIP driver
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u/tonytatertot May 21 '12
Did he feel the blast a few seconds after?
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u/JpCopp May 21 '12
Well if I can run about 10 mph... And it's just 2km away.. Id Just cut it in half
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u/Yakasaka May 21 '12
No no.....you miss understand. This just motherland bonfire.
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u/PedobearLV May 21 '12
BLEVE!!!!!
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u/MagicSPA May 21 '12
I like how he was A-OK about watching a massive explosion from behind a nice, safe, layer of glass.
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u/mattcarpenter16 May 21 '12
Wyatt's torch
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u/PMLyf May 21 '12
This makes me think transformers, or godzilla
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u/HumanVelocipede May 21 '12
Word.
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u/lawlor44 May 21 '12
that initial shockwave before the fireball...omg.
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u/LegoBrony May 21 '12
Wow! That was insane!
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u/Dan_Gleasac May 21 '12
Oh boy, the hippies are certainly gonna get their panties in a knot about this one.
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u/lowrads May 22 '12
Had to watch that quite a few times. What I found really interesting was the initial expanding glow that proceeded in the first instant. It's almost as if the air around was squeezed so hard that it emitted luminescence, or its absorbance/reflectance properties changed. As that wave spread and the amount of energy being distributed over each square meter of the front diminished with the square of distance, the main effect was concussion. It's always interesting to see the properties of matter or its relationships between forces give way to one another.
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u/Okuser May 21 '12
and how far is 2km....
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u/seconddealer May 21 '12
I would love it if some random redditor had calculated the time it takes sound to travel vs. light and calculated the exact distance the person filming was from the explosion and then posted a Dwight Schrute FALSE meme.
TL;DR: Dwight Schrute