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Beirut just got ROCKED!
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<blockquote data-quote="quad" data-source="post: 16467246" data-attributes="member: 17952"><p>Little Boy @ Hiroshima was apparently 1000 times more powerful! That puts things into perspective. This Beirut explosion was a little fart by comparison!</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/beirut-s-tragic-explosion-is-devastating-in-size-but-nothing-about-it-suggests-nuclear" target="_blank">Terrifying Explosion in Beirut Wasn't Nuclear, Experts Say, And Here's Why</a></p><p></p><p>A back-of-the-envelope calculation <a href="https://twitter.com/NarangVipin/status/1290725969112653824" target="_blank">reshared on Twitter</a> by Narang suggests the blast was equivalent to around 240 tons of TNT, or about 10 times as large as the US military's "<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com.au/moab-not-biggest-non-nuclear-explosion-2017-4" target="_blank">mother of all bombs</a>" or MOAB is capable of unleashing. By contrast, the "Little Boy" bomb that the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com.au/atomic-bomb-dropped-on-hiroshima-2017-8" target="_blank">US dropped on Hiroshima</a> in 1945 was about 1,000 times as powerful.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="quad, post: 16467246, member: 17952"] Little Boy @ Hiroshima was apparently 1000 times more powerful! That puts things into perspective. This Beirut explosion was a little fart by comparison! [URL="https://www.sciencealert.com/beirut-s-tragic-explosion-is-devastating-in-size-but-nothing-about-it-suggests-nuclear"]Terrifying Explosion in Beirut Wasn't Nuclear, Experts Say, And Here's Why[/URL] A back-of-the-envelope calculation [URL='https://twitter.com/NarangVipin/status/1290725969112653824']reshared on Twitter[/URL] by Narang suggests the blast was equivalent to around 240 tons of TNT, or about 10 times as large as the US military's "[URL='https://www.businessinsider.com.au/moab-not-biggest-non-nuclear-explosion-2017-4']mother of all bombs[/URL]" or MOAB is capable of unleashing. By contrast, the "Little Boy" bomb that the [URL='https://www.businessinsider.com.au/atomic-bomb-dropped-on-hiroshima-2017-8']US dropped on Hiroshima[/URL] in 1945 was about 1,000 times as powerful. [/QUOTE]
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