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KaBOOM!
Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 4:18 am
by Duper
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
Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 5:47 am
by Isaac
blowing things up is always the best way to get rid of trash. I keep telling them at work.
Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 7:39 am
by Krom
That was a lot.
Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 9:39 am
by Richard Cranium
That was a cool explosion. Let's do it again!
Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 9:42 am
by MD-2389
Still doesn't compare to the Mythbusters blowing up that cement truck.
Seriously though, 350,000 pounds is a LOT going off at once.
Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 10:48 am
by Tricord
If it's all little bits, I wonder how they get it to blow up all at the same time..
Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 10:54 am
by Krom
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.
Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 1:52 pm
by Duper
That vid looked like it was taken from a couple miles away at least. check out the shockwave along the ground.
Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 9:35 pm
by Topher
Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 12:12 am
by Isaac
if the earth curves at 7 miles i'm guessing the blast was at about 2 or less
Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 1:41 pm
by Mobius
A third of a megaton you say? Impressive!
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Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 2:15 pm
by Topher
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.
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Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 2:43 pm
by Krom
Krom wrote:...a 0.175 KT blast.
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Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 1:00 pm
by Duper
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.
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Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 7:15 am
by CaptainJ
Time from visual to audio report 5 seconds.
Approximate distance: 1 mile.
CJ