All you engineering disaster buffs read this
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All you engineering disaster buffs read this
This contains a video of a 1988 explosion at a chemical plant near Las Vegas. The video of it is here.
http://www.exponent.com/multimedia/cases/hend.html
Who wants to bet that this was safer than Star trek Warp cores
http://www.exponent.com/multimedia/cases/hend.html
Who wants to bet that this was safer than Star trek Warp cores
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Star Trek engineers would have built a daycare in the place.
PS. explosive yield equivalent to roughly 0.7 kilotons. Hot damn!
PS. explosive yield equivalent to roughly 0.7 kilotons. Hot damn!
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IIRC, this was the site that produced fuel for NASA's shuttle program. When it shut down for a while after the Challenger blew up, no one told them to stop producing the fuel. So they kept producing it but not delivering and just stockpiled it on site. Then they had a fire.
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IIRC, there was a man still at the plant when one of the blasts went off. Amazingly, he survived, albeit with ruptured ears drums and a few broken bones from being thrown 20-30 feet. That clip was on RealTV, one of those 'amazing videos from around the world' shows.
There's another amazing video like that of a gasoline tanker truck in Mexico that explodes in a fireball that was something like 20 stories tall. If I can find a link, I'll post it.
There's another amazing video like that of a gasoline tanker truck in Mexico that explodes in a fireball that was something like 20 stories tall. If I can find a link, I'll post it.
There is an old 60's - 70's clip somewhere on my hard drive, where a whale was beached and died. Civil planners wondered what they should do with it, and the decision was made to 'blow it up' hoping that it would totally vaporise the thing. Anyway they were wrong, they stacked as much dynamite as they thought neccessary, and then pulled the trigger. The result; whale meat rained down EVERYWHERE denting car roofs and knocking over by-standers, very amussing.
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If it weren't for the smoke from the first explosion, you'd see a pretty clear mushroom cloud rising from the second blast. As it is you can make it out fairly well.Darth Wong wrote:Star Trek engineers would have built a daycare in the place.
PS. explosive yield equivalent to roughly 0.7 kilotons. Hot damn!
This is what a 1.2 kiloton burst buried at 67 feet looks like for comparision.
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