This is the news!

[Gemmill 34422]

There's a video someone took from a boat just off the coast. You see the explosion and then a second later you see the shock wave zipping across the surface of the water towards the boat. It's like something out of the Avengers movies or if CT jumped in a pool. 

[essembeeofsunderland 811]

‘Confiscated ammonium nitrate’ .

Edited August 5, 2020 by essembeeofsunderland

[Toonpack 6846]

4 hours ago, ewerk said:

2,750 tonnes of it to be exact. There's lapses of health and safety and then there's this.

Someone did the maths based on its relative power to TNT, reckon blast was near 1.5 ish kilotons or 1/10th of a Hiroshima

Edited August 5, 2020 by Toonpack

[Kid Dynamite 5904]

Got to be the biggest explosion in peacetime? The videos are incredible. I’d imagine the number of dead is only going to rise 

[Tom 13836]

I think that’d rival a lot of war zones tbh. 

[NJS 3977]

Flixborough was good - late 70s off the top of my head. 

[Alex 30382]

Krakatoa was decent 

[Meenzer 14031]

5 minutes ago, Alex said:

Kraks fer me like 

 

FYP marra.

[Gemmill 34422]

When CT fell in the waterfall at Oz was pretty epic. 

[Monkeys Fist 38739]

5 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

When CT fell in the waterfall at Oz was pretty epic. 

 

Only 32 megatons. 

[Monkeys Fist 38739]

This footage of Beirut is mental, shows the size of it , and if you look at the building on the left, it’s windows explode a split second before the shockwave hits those filming. 

 

[Sonatine 9987]

 

[Gemmill 34422]

Nice jammers.

[Gemmill 34422]

[Howmanheyman 26784]

My eldest just turned 18. I wish Ferguson could've waited a bit longer so I could've took some hints from her heartwarming birthday message that I could've passed on. No consideration.

[Monkeys Fist 38739]

“Dearest Beatrice,

You’re 32 now- it’s safe to move back in to Dad’s estate. You’re well out of his range.

Love 

Mam.” 

[Anorthernsoul 1221]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/07/german-nudist-chases-wild-boar-that-stole-laptop-berlin-teufelssee?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR3YQmHQNlgLO6-1tOCEUGX0mZ3fweidG7D_cW4BRW5w7IuFZ0c8SsczYOk

[Gemmill 34422]

 

 

I didn't like this news story...........

 

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I LOVED IT! 

 

One for the X Factor viewers there. 

 

 

[Anorthernsoul 1221]

https://metro.co.uk/2020/08/12/meet-gainer-bull-500lb-13117251/?ito=facebook|social|metroukfacebook&fbclid=IwAR0ys1QRvR96o2c4b9Uim3waFuBfwXbuq_eqnTzmcFWaJ8J4RywaOy4OBQA

[Anorthernsoul 1221]

[ewerk 26291]

[Monkeys Fist 38739]

Punchy headline, that. 

[Alex 30382]

7 hours ago, Monkeys Fist said:

Punchy headline, that. 

Pithy  

[Anorthernsoul 1221]

15 hours ago, ewerk said:

 

 

Ryan Parry - West Coast Editor.

 

I wonder if he smokes weed everyday?

[Monkeys Fist 38739]

24 minutes ago, Anorthernsoul said:

 

 

Ryan Parry - West Coast Editor.

 

I wonder if he smokes weed everyday?

 I also wonder if Ryan Parry, West Coast Editor, smokes weed everyday. 
 

The universe is full of unknowable mystery.