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The ticker on my local news station is claiming about 150 dead and several thousand injured. No cause for the explosion was given other than that 2 trains crashed.
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Wait, first fuel and now dynamite? Erm... :wtf:
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Rogue 9 wrote:Wait, first fuel and now dynamite? Erm... :wtf:
Actually it was a stolen Soviet suitcase nuke that misfired...no, not really, but I wouldn't be surprised if they said that next.
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Rogue 9 wrote:Wait, first fuel and now dynamite? Erm... :wtf:
Actually it was a stolen Soviet suitcase nuke that misfired...no, not really, but I wouldn't be surprised if they said that next.
ammonium nitrate was reported as the cause by Xinhua.

perhaps a train load of pop rocks crashed into a train load of coke.... thats about the only explanation we havn't heard yet.
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Col. Crackpot wrote:perhaps a train load of pop rocks crashed into a train load of coke.... thats about the only explanation we havn't heard yet.
Not to trivialise the actual accident, but that'd actually be kinda cool to see happen. :)
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There was a show on Discovery not too long ago, was about the greatest explosions of all time. They did various test on TNT and it will not blow if burned or crushed only electric charge. So guessing the whole overhead wiring screw up they mentioned might be it. Just don't see how in the hell you would have loose wires near crates of TNT :(
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I have seen TV pictures of the explosion site.

That must have been really a big bang. :shock:
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Meest wrote:There was a show on Discovery not too long ago, was about the greatest explosions of all time. They did various test on TNT and it will not blow if burned or crushed only electric charge. So guessing the whole overhead wiring screw up they mentioned might be it. Just don't see how in the hell you would have loose wires near crates of TNT :(
Saw that- talking about the Halifax Explosion. This blast would have to be on par with that- if the sources on the components of the explosion are accurate. If you take two trainloads of a variety of TNT, liquefied petroleum gas, oil, Ammonium Nitrate and whatever else, you're going to have a couple hundred tons of blast.
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Spanky The Dolphin wrote:
Col. Crackpot wrote:perhaps a train load of pop rocks crashed into a train load of coke.... thats about the only explanation we havn't heard yet.
Not to trivialise the actual accident, but that'd actually be kinda cool to see happen. :)
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