KaBOOM!

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 4:18 am

This is just incredable. The amount of ordinance and the resulting explosion is just a bit staggering. Notice just how far away it is. This reminds me of the that old Nevada test site detination.

Check it out HERE

Isaac · Post by **Isaac** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 5:47 am

blowing things up is always the best way to get rid of trash. I keep telling them at work.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 7:39 am

That was a lot.

Richard Cranium · Post by **Richard Cranium** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 9:39 am

That was a cool explosion. Let's do it again!

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 9:42 am

Still doesn't compare to the Mythbusters blowing up that cement truck.

Seriously though, 350,000 pounds is a LOT going off at once.

Tricord · Post by **Tricord** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 10:48 am

If it's all little bits, I wonder how they get it to blow up all at the same time..

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 10:54 am

Most of it looked piled up or stacked and sorted nicely, they probably just set small charges around on every pile, once you got it started it would chain and set everything around it off, and then you get a 0.175 KT blast.

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 1:52 pm

That vid looked like it was taken from a couple miles away at least. check out the shockwave along the ground.

Topher · Post by **Topher** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 9:35 pm

Peanuts. link

Isaac · Post by **Isaac** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 12:12 am

if the earth curves at 7 miles i'm guessing the blast was at about 2 or less

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 1:41 pm

A third of a megaton you say? Impressive!

Topher · Post by **Topher** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 2:15 pm

Mobius wrote:A third of a megaton you say? Impressive!

How the hell is 350,000 pounds a third of a megaton?

A. Ton = 2000 pounds, so that's 175 tons, not even a kiloton.
B. When an explosion is "1 kiloton", then it's 1000 tons of TNT, not 1000 tons of metal, wooden crates, bullet casings, bullets and maybe some extra stuff that makes it go boom.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 2:43 pm

Krom wrote:...a 0.175 KT blast.

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Mon May 01, 2006 1:00 pm

Isaac wrote:if the earth curves at 7 miles i'm guessing the blast was at about 2 or less

Actually, false horizon is at 14 miles. True horizon is at something like 20 miles.

CaptainJ · Post by **CaptainJ** » Thu May 04, 2006 7:15 am

Time from visual to audio report 5 seconds.
Approximate distance: 1 mile.
CJ

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