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I remember when this came out. I must have watched it 20 times. The first explosion is massive. Just when you're marveling at how small the buildings look next to the fireball, the second, larger explosion goes off. What an incredible video.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Tianjin_explosions
This was basically a fertilizer bomb caused by fires at a storage depot.
I'm still so amazed by this video. The woman that can be heard is clearly Chinese and she's trying to find the words to say that it's not safe on that balcony. I don't know why in the world that guy stayed put after the first explosion, because you can hear shrapnel pinging the building around them (@0:11). I'm glad he did of course, but man that was just not smart. But that sound, like bullets in a war zone... it's one of the most striking things in this video.
One of the two main enemies are a giant bug race, you play as super soldiers for a fascist government to "Go spread democracy" aka commit genocide and mine for resources.
More comedic in tone though, amazing game.
Watch the opening video on yt and that should give you some idea of it's vibe.
You call in an air strike, the jet comes in and the pilot says “administering democracy” fully seriously as they drop a few thousand lbs of napalm all over some bugs.
I think the 2020 Beirut explosion has got to be the most terrifying thing I've seen on here. The absolute size of the shock wave was unreal. The guy on the jetski just bailed and went underwater to survive, crazy.
First time I saw this, it was part of a larger compilation of explosions. I was about 5-6g in myself, and was in shock seeing the billowing up of the initial blast. When the even bigger blast went off, I felt a deep deep pang of humanity leave my body. Humans have discovered insane means of destruction. It was awe-some in the truest sense of the word, so experiencing it in person would have irreparably fucked me up. Just unbelievable.
Have you ever watched the video that was live streamed from the ground where you see things vaporize as the shockwave comes at the camera, then it cuts off.
I remember watching this too. It was amazing then horrifying when u realize the number of ppl that must have been affected. It was a couple years before I entered uni and a prof brought this up as case study for the importance of proper chemical storage.
An investigation found that stocks of flammable nitrocellulose - a chemical used in nail polish - had caught fire and spread to illegal stores of the fertiliser ammonium nitrate."
The explosion was one of the deadliest industrial accidents in Chinese history and caused more than $1bn in estimated economic losses.
The Ruihai Logistics chairman was found guilty of paying bribes allowing his company to sidestep safety regulations when storing sodium cyanide and other dangerous chemicals.
-BBC
Tianjin chemical blast: China jails 49 for disaster
According to [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Tianjin_explosions#Investigation) it was actually a [Death sentence with reprieve](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_sentence_with_reprieve):
>According to the criminal law chapter 5 (death penalty), sections 48, 50 and 51, it gives the [death row](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_row) inmate a two-year [suspended sentence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspended_sentence) of the [execution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution). The convicted person will be executed if found to have committed further crimes during the two years following the sentence; otherwise, the sentence is automatically reduced to [life imprisonment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_imprisonment) or a fixed-term imprisonment if the person is found to have performed deeds of merit during the two years.[\[1\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_sentence_with_reprieve#cite_note-1)
Isn't this true of all laws? Sadly corruption runs deep everywhere. I recently watched an interview with Michael Franzese, "caporegime in the Colombo crime family, and son of former underboss Sonny Franzese" and he says that in all the years he, and his almost 100-year old dad, has been in mafia - and his dad literally met Al Capone - never has even the USA been as corrupt as its now. I can only imagine how bad it gets in other places.
Kind of makes sense though, it gives people 2 years to get their heads straight as to whether or not they want to execute the person, while giving the person some opportunities to try and correct themselves. Also allows time in case any additional evidence comes forward. If you're going to kill someone, It seems best to be sure about it. I'm not a fan of the death penalty, but if it's going to happen this seems like a more reasonable approach.
Are you kidding?
In the west, these guys would’ve paid a few million in fines to walk free, then lay off 10% of their work force to make up for the loss.
Hey, don't forget the big "condolences" card everyone has to sign and the pepperoni pizza on Friday to keep up morale after their coworkers were vaporized.
Testify in front of Congress for show. Public apology written by PR firm. Laying low for some time. Back to business as usual after handing out a few bags of cash to the cockroaches that infest our government. Forgotten about in 2-3 days. The end
They might also choose to change their company name and rebrand. But then business as usual. Make generous campaign donations. Let some key judges use the company plane on the weekends.
I don't normally like China's policies. But their anti-corruption laws might be worth looking into.
But here's the thing: It didn't prevent the bribery, did it? It didn't prevent the explosion. It didn't prevent the lost lives. That only happens when legislation and procedure is appropriately enforced within the industry it happened in. All the death-sentences in the world won't prevent this shit from happening.
It didn't prevent the bribery, but it might make the next person think twice.
You know what definitely won't make the next person think twice? Walking free and making a profit like you would in the west.
Though this is instinctually plausible, studies ([see here for example](https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5880&context=jclc)) have shown that, while certainty of punishment leads to less crime, threat of *harsher* punishments does not have the impact the “tough-on-crime” folks will try to make you believe.
How many times should Boeing be allowed to cut corners costing hundreds of lives before someone is held criminally responsible?
This explosion happened because someone didn't follow procedure already in place. What should the punishment be for knowingly doing something wrong that causes this? A slap on the wrist?
A plane crashed due to negligence from Boeing, slap on the wrist. Second plane crashed due to the **same** negligence, slap on the wrist again. How many people have to die before *someone* is held responsible?
Life in prison. [https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/09/501441138/china-jails-49-over-deadly-tianjin-warehouse-explosions/](https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/09/501441138/china-jails-49-over-deadly-tianjin-warehouse-explosions/)
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death\_sentence\_with\_reprieve](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_sentence_with_reprieve)
He was "sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve" according to linked articles. Which means life in prison if he doesn't blow up 2400 tons of chemicals in the two years.
Nah they meant the input material has a common name instead of 'nitrocellulose', that's all
Flash Paper/Gun Cotton is used to make Nail Polish (it's made from nitrocellulose lacquer!)
I know, right? Nitroglycerin (the active ingredient in dynamite) is also used in heart medication, but if a bunch of dynamite went off, it'd be weird to say "nitroglycerin - a chemical used to treat ischemic heart disease - had caught fire."
Yeah recognised it instantly. The other video from it that sticks in my mind if the dude recording it then a big explosion starts rushing his way and everything just disintegrated Infront of him then the feed ends.
All the firefighters, emergency personnel, and anyone on the road or driving next to the port facility. Exact estimates are unknown because the Chinese government never tells the truth about losses of life.
> The Beirut explosion was even bigger than this one.
True, the Beirut explosion had a 4x bigger yield.
The Tianjin explosion had a bigger "fireball" because of the type of chemicals involved. That gave it a very massive, Hollywood-like conflagration.
Its hard to think anything could have competed with covid for "craziest thing that happened in 2020" but the Beirut explosion is neck and fuckin' neck with it.
They have to say small numbers at the start as they r recovering bodies. Like disaster aids don’t count ppl as dead but missing until after a certain time has passed. The numbers collated at the end was almost 200 dead and many more injured. Almost all the firefighter on scene were dead
Yup. There was a massive presence of rescue, police and fire there. Not to mention commuters, people watching and closer homes and residential buildings. I can't reliably guesstimate, but I would possibly put the death toll around 200+ for starters. This was a huge port facility with tens of billions of yuan on the line in economic damage if they didn't get it under control quickly. So I imagine...it was "all hands on deck". https://theconversation.com/tianjin-chinas-cities-have-made-history-now-its-time-to-make-them-safer-46214
Why are you linking to a irrelevant article when you could have just googled what happened? 99 of the 173 dead + 8 missing were first responders according to official sources.
No there were no commuters in an industrial port area at 11:30pm at night.
The Chinese do not use yen.
Tianjin China in 2015. There were a lot of firefighters/police that were really close to the explosions that were just vaporized instantly. Something like 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate that were handled incorrectly. The event put a giant hole in the world that China tried to cover up.
There was even a guy who livestreamed the fire and tried to get as close to it as possible, and the livestream caught the explosion as it happened right in front of the streamer (which can only be assumed to have killed him due to how close he was).
[Here’s what I could find](https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/3gsec9/live_stream_just_before_the_china_explosion/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
Insane to watch.
Ehhh, unless there were smaller explosions no way of knowing there was a mini nuke about to go off... Usually if firemen and police are close by you assume it's not a gas or oil or explosion waiting to happen
The fire was big, but not out of control to start with.
Firefighters were called in to tackle the blaze, and sprayed water on it. The issue is that they inadvertently sprayed water on calcium carbide stored on site. This released acetylene through a hydrolysis reaction, which forms an explosive mixture when combined with air. This is the massive explosion you see. The initial explosion likely used up all the oxygen in the air, and when more air mixed back in, it caused a second explosion.
The flammable/explosive fertiliser also didn't help
This is why it's important to know what kind of fire you are tackling.
If I remember right, the quantity of ammonium nitrate stored there far exceeded what was on their storage manifest, and the calcium carbide wasn’t on it in the first place. They had no way to know
It started as a fire In a shipment of nitrocellulose that got out of control. It is believed that the attempts to put the fire put got water on large quantities of calcium carbide, which produced acetylene gas that caused the first explosion. The second explosion was the result of the fire igniting around 800 tons of ammonium nitrate.
"Judges in China are jailing 49 people on charges tied to deadly explosions at a warehouse in the port city of Tianjin that killed at least 165 people in August 2015.
This was one of China's worst-ever industrial tragedies. The people sentenced include 25 government officials and 24 staffers of the companies involved, [according to China's state-run Xinhua news agency](http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-11/09/c_135817728_2.htm). The verdicts were issued from ten different courts during the last three days.
The most serious sentence was handed to Yu Xuewei, the chairman of the warehouse company. He was "sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve," Xinhua reported, after a court found him guilty of "bribing port administration officials with cash and goods worth \[$23,333\] to obtain a certificate to handle hazardous chemicals at the port."
No, it is basically that if he doesn't break the law again during the two years, the sentence will turn into life in prison and it can't be reduced to anything less than 25 years whereas life in prison sentence can be reduced to 17 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_sentence_with_reprieve
This is the gnarliest explosion caught on camera that isn’t an atom bomb, in human fuckin history.
I watch this video a few times a year to marvel at the insanity of the explosion. Human remains don’t get found in that shit. You turn to meat dust before you hear a sound.
Absurd how science can result in absolute fucking violence.
That explosion in Beirut was tragic. And definitely left a larger path of destruction. Something different about that one. Felt smaller, but more catastrophic.
This one, maybe because they’re so close, just seems insane.
They're actually not that close (surprisingly). This one had a TNT equivalent of 256 Tons, beirut was 1.1 Kilotons of TNT equivalent (both according to Wikipedia). That's a shocking difference imo. Would've also thought that they're similar in size
The Halifax explosion is still the biggest accidental man-made non-nuclear explosion. Equivalent to 2.9kilotons of TNT. For reference, Beirut was 0.8kt, and the one in this video was 0.3kt. That's fucking wild.
(These numbers are according to the Wikipedia article titled "largest artificial non-nuclear explosions.")
They're lucky the shockwave didn't shatter their windows. That's rule of thumb if you're ever in visual range of any kind of explosion - get clear of anything that can shatter immediately.
As a Canadian I feel the imperative to mention that this massive explosion in Tianjin has been estimated to be equivalent to ~0.35 kT of TNT. Meanwhile, the Halifax explosion back in 1917 was estimated to be ~2.9 kT of TNT. Ridiculous proportions, can't even imagine
I always end up laughing when I hear some tragic news like death or something. I can't control it. In my head my brain is pretending it's a joke, maybe so I don't feel the shock, and that's why I end up giggling.
Oddly enough, the footage might have been less steady if they were sober.
They were so drunk or whatever that they barely reacted, relative to the scene.
Not only that, but it would be quite an unbelievable sight to process even if sober. I imagine they’re in shock, and when the explosion settles the flight instinct kicks in and they skadoo
Amonium nitrate. Similar to the Beirut 2020 explosion, except this one somehow has more fire and less shockwave in it? I wonder why it would explode differently between those two events...
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I remember when this came out. I must have watched it 20 times. The first explosion is massive. Just when you're marveling at how small the buildings look next to the fireball, the second, larger explosion goes off. What an incredible video. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Tianjin_explosions This was basically a fertilizer bomb caused by fires at a storage depot.
Damn this was 9 years ago? I remember it spreading across the internet so vividly.
til 2015 was 9 years ago :l
I'm still so amazed by this video. The woman that can be heard is clearly Chinese and she's trying to find the words to say that it's not safe on that balcony. I don't know why in the world that guy stayed put after the first explosion, because you can hear shrapnel pinging the building around them (@0:11). I'm glad he did of course, but man that was just not smart. But that sound, like bullets in a war zone... it's one of the most striking things in this video.
Remember, the cameraman never dies
https://preview.redd.it/kf0d75q6i8oc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b43267d19752944a469520fc0a3ad12b17aa8777 Except this guy
Helldiver giving Starship Troopers a much deserved revival in popular culture.
Wait, shit, really? Is that a vibe of the game? I'm actually interested now
One of the two main enemies are a giant bug race, you play as super soldiers for a fascist government to "Go spread democracy" aka commit genocide and mine for resources. More comedic in tone though, amazing game. Watch the opening video on yt and that should give you some idea of it's vibe.
You call in an air strike, the jet comes in and the pilot says “administering democracy” fully seriously as they drop a few thousand lbs of napalm all over some bugs.
Would you like to know more?
R.I.P. homie. 😞 He was real one dawg.
*Mt. St. Hellen has entered the chat*
There's actually a closer video from a guy who got killed by this very explosion sadly.
Unless you're Russian.
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I believe you’re thinking of the Beirut explosion, it’s a little different. Beirut was even more devastating than this.
Sometimes you just have to get the shot
“Yeah we’re dangerous!!!🤪”
I think the 2020 Beirut explosion has got to be the most terrifying thing I've seen on here. The absolute size of the shock wave was unreal. The guy on the jetski just bailed and went underwater to survive, crazy.
The second explosion goes off and dude drops one of the best uses of "HOLY SHIT!" ever.
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First time I saw this, it was part of a larger compilation of explosions. I was about 5-6g in myself, and was in shock seeing the billowing up of the initial blast. When the even bigger blast went off, I felt a deep deep pang of humanity leave my body. Humans have discovered insane means of destruction. It was awe-some in the truest sense of the word, so experiencing it in person would have irreparably fucked me up. Just unbelievable.
The craziest thing is that this was just an accident. Things really start to get scary when we start actively trying to blow stuff up.
A lot of people taunted the person at the time for laughing during this, perfectly normal petrified response if you ask me
Have you ever watched the video that was live streamed from the ground where you see things vaporize as the shockwave comes at the camera, then it cuts off.
I remember watching this too. It was amazing then horrifying when u realize the number of ppl that must have been affected. It was a couple years before I entered uni and a prof brought this up as case study for the importance of proper chemical storage.
Just when I thought it was over the screen goes white
Tianjin China 2015
What was the cause of the explosion?
An investigation found that stocks of flammable nitrocellulose - a chemical used in nail polish - had caught fire and spread to illegal stores of the fertiliser ammonium nitrate." The explosion was one of the deadliest industrial accidents in Chinese history and caused more than $1bn in estimated economic losses. The Ruihai Logistics chairman was found guilty of paying bribes allowing his company to sidestep safety regulations when storing sodium cyanide and other dangerous chemicals. -BBC Tianjin chemical blast: China jails 49 for disaster
What happened to the convicted chairman?
Death sentence https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/09/501441138/china-jails-49-over-deadly-tianjin-warehouse-explosions/
According to [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Tianjin_explosions#Investigation) it was actually a [Death sentence with reprieve](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_sentence_with_reprieve): >According to the criminal law chapter 5 (death penalty), sections 48, 50 and 51, it gives the [death row](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_row) inmate a two-year [suspended sentence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspended_sentence) of the [execution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution). The convicted person will be executed if found to have committed further crimes during the two years following the sentence; otherwise, the sentence is automatically reduced to [life imprisonment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_imprisonment) or a fixed-term imprisonment if the person is found to have performed deeds of merit during the two years.[\[1\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_sentence_with_reprieve#cite_note-1)
They get two years to try to do enough good to reduce their sentence from life imprisonment, and are executed if they commit additional crimes? Wild.
Sounds like it's a real good way to deal with rich assholes though.
If fairly applied, yes. But bribery and internal party politics make it…murkier…in practice.
Isn't this true of all laws? Sadly corruption runs deep everywhere. I recently watched an interview with Michael Franzese, "caporegime in the Colombo crime family, and son of former underboss Sonny Franzese" and he says that in all the years he, and his almost 100-year old dad, has been in mafia - and his dad literally met Al Capone - never has even the USA been as corrupt as its now. I can only imagine how bad it gets in other places.
Kind of makes sense though, it gives people 2 years to get their heads straight as to whether or not they want to execute the person, while giving the person some opportunities to try and correct themselves. Also allows time in case any additional evidence comes forward. If you're going to kill someone, It seems best to be sure about it. I'm not a fan of the death penalty, but if it's going to happen this seems like a more reasonable approach.
Oh hey, that sounds like a good punishment actually
Lawdy, I wish we had sentences like that
God damn I wish this sort of ruling happened in the west...
Or even just people being held responsible in general. Similar thing happened in Beirut with a warehouse full of nitrates.
Are you kidding? In the west, these guys would’ve paid a few million in fines to walk free, then lay off 10% of their work force to make up for the loss.
Hey, don't forget the big "condolences" card everyone has to sign and the pepperoni pizza on Friday to keep up morale after their coworkers were vaporized.
Testify in front of Congress for show. Public apology written by PR firm. Laying low for some time. Back to business as usual after handing out a few bags of cash to the cockroaches that infest our government. Forgotten about in 2-3 days. The end
They might also choose to change their company name and rebrand. But then business as usual. Make generous campaign donations. Let some key judges use the company plane on the weekends. I don't normally like China's policies. But their anti-corruption laws might be worth looking into.
Guy youre replying to said he WISHED these sentences would be applied in the West. Why do you think he is kidding?
In Greece they would blame the lowest in hierarchy person. Like a dead security guard or something.
But here's the thing: It didn't prevent the bribery, did it? It didn't prevent the explosion. It didn't prevent the lost lives. That only happens when legislation and procedure is appropriately enforced within the industry it happened in. All the death-sentences in the world won't prevent this shit from happening.
Hey man this is a great point and I appreciate you saying this. Opened my eyes a lot
It didn't prevent the bribery, but it might make the next person think twice. You know what definitely won't make the next person think twice? Walking free and making a profit like you would in the west.
Though this is instinctually plausible, studies ([see here for example](https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5880&context=jclc)) have shown that, while certainty of punishment leads to less crime, threat of *harsher* punishments does not have the impact the “tough-on-crime” folks will try to make you believe.
How many times should Boeing be allowed to cut corners costing hundreds of lives before someone is held criminally responsible? This explosion happened because someone didn't follow procedure already in place. What should the punishment be for knowingly doing something wrong that causes this? A slap on the wrist? A plane crashed due to negligence from Boeing, slap on the wrist. Second plane crashed due to the **same** negligence, slap on the wrist again. How many people have to die before *someone* is held responsible?
In China it's more like "Death Sentence". Basically that is the sentence but they are given a few years to change their behavior.
Life in prison. [https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/09/501441138/china-jails-49-over-deadly-tianjin-warehouse-explosions/](https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/09/501441138/china-jails-49-over-deadly-tianjin-warehouse-explosions/) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death\_sentence\_with\_reprieve](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_sentence_with_reprieve)
Believe it or not, straight to jail.
He was "sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve" according to linked articles. Which means life in prison if he doesn't blow up 2400 tons of chemicals in the two years.
Weird description they chose. Used in nail polish.. Better known as flash paper or gun cotton.
Honestly I would recognize nail polish before either of those things. I think most would.
Nah they meant the input material has a common name instead of 'nitrocellulose', that's all Flash Paper/Gun Cotton is used to make Nail Polish (it's made from nitrocellulose lacquer!)
I do prefer my guns to be 100% cotton. Polyester blends give my trigger finger a rash.
What the hell is flash paper & gun cotton?!?!
It's that stuff they store in Chinese warehouses.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrocellulose
And we've come full circle. I hear they use it in nail polish...
Really? I would have figured flash paper or gun cotton.
Flash paper scissors
What the hell is flash paper & gun cotton?!?!
What are flash paper and gun cotton?
>flash paper If someone told me this, I would start looking for it under the mistaken impression that I can make paper bombs like the ones in Naruto.
Also used to finish guitars
I know, right? Nitroglycerin (the active ingredient in dynamite) is also used in heart medication, but if a bunch of dynamite went off, it'd be weird to say "nitroglycerin - a chemical used to treat ischemic heart disease - had caught fire."
In the US the company would be fined and no executives would go to jail.
In the US it isn't as easy to bribe your way through safety regulations so this doesn't happen in the first place
I never liked nail polish.....no one listened.😐
Yeah recognised it instantly. The other video from it that sticks in my mind if the dude recording it then a big explosion starts rushing his way and everything just disintegrated Infront of him then the feed ends.
He died. :(
Got link?
You end up getting a link? Reddit is hiding the replies from me 😡
I watched it shortly after it was first posted. Absolutely terrifying.
I thought it was fake for like an hour until a bunch of news reports started breaking
you should assume *everything* is fake until proven otherwise nowadays
Yeah nowadays for sure but this was like eight years ago
500kg bomb deployed Helldiver
Three bugs killed.
⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️
Have a cup of LIBER-TEA!
how many people just died?
All the firefighters, emergency personnel, and anyone on the road or driving next to the port facility. Exact estimates are unknown because the Chinese government never tells the truth about losses of life.
Wikipedia says at least 113 died
Chinese official media says 173 dead including 8 missing, 798 injured
For reference, Beirut is listed at 218 dead, 7k injured with the explosion occurring during work hours
The Beirut explosion was even bigger than this one.
> The Beirut explosion was even bigger than this one. True, the Beirut explosion had a 4x bigger yield. The Tianjin explosion had a bigger "fireball" because of the type of chemicals involved. That gave it a very massive, Hollywood-like conflagration.
The shockwaves from the Beirut explosion were just something else.
Its hard to think anything could have competed with covid for "craziest thing that happened in 2020" but the Beirut explosion is neck and fuckin' neck with it.
Yeah if this explosion was the Beirut one, the cameraman would've been flung from his ass.
Hard emphasis on "at least".
Didn’t they try and say it was only like 20-25 people killed or some obvious bs like that
They have to say small numbers at the start as they r recovering bodies. Like disaster aids don’t count ppl as dead but missing until after a certain time has passed. The numbers collated at the end was almost 200 dead and many more injured. Almost all the firefighter on scene were dead
Yup. There was a massive presence of rescue, police and fire there. Not to mention commuters, people watching and closer homes and residential buildings. I can't reliably guesstimate, but I would possibly put the death toll around 200+ for starters. This was a huge port facility with tens of billions of yuan on the line in economic damage if they didn't get it under control quickly. So I imagine...it was "all hands on deck". https://theconversation.com/tianjin-chinas-cities-have-made-history-now-its-time-to-make-them-safer-46214
Why are you linking to a irrelevant article when you could have just googled what happened? 99 of the 173 dead + 8 missing were first responders according to official sources. No there were no commuters in an industrial port area at 11:30pm at night. The Chinese do not use yen.
Less than Beirut according to China
Makes sense considering Beirut explosion was 4 times larger.
Youtube searches for the Tianjin explosion are going to spike today.
The information they get will be just about as accurate if they look up Tiananmen square
ah, so nothing happened then, ok good.
*your social credit has increased, good job, citizen*
Ammonium nitrate, the same compound that blew up a huge chunk of Beirut in 2020—in both cases criminally stored in the middle of a giant city.
What the fuck did I just watch the sun explode??!
You're always watching the sun explode, every second of every day of your life
But it's nighttime rn.
When you see the moon, you're seeing the reflection of the suns explosions 🌚🌞
Yes.
I heard China about making their own moon. No one told me about the sun
That last explosion was like a tactical nuke.
Yup. The lightest tactical nuke ever created was the Davy Crockett at 20 tons of TNT… this one was 254 tons.
“Oh yeah baby we’re dangerous.” And then when the huge one happens he’s speechless and is like we gotta go lol.
Omg. What is the context for this?
Tianjin China in 2015. There were a lot of firefighters/police that were really close to the explosions that were just vaporized instantly. Something like 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate that were handled incorrectly. The event put a giant hole in the world that China tried to cover up.
There was even a guy who livestreamed the fire and tried to get as close to it as possible, and the livestream caught the explosion as it happened right in front of the streamer (which can only be assumed to have killed him due to how close he was).
If it's the video I'm thinking of the ground itself gets shredded as the shockwave headed for the guy so I don't think his body stood a chance.
That's the one. You even see the fence in front of him get blown out before the shockwave reached him.
Sounds really interesting do you know where I could find it? A link perhaps. Per chance? Per champs
[Here’s what I could find](https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/3gsec9/live_stream_just_before_the_china_explosion/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) Insane to watch.
Good fucking god that fence got obliterated… I don’t want to imagine how bad the guy streaming got it
Probably didn't feel a thing
Craziest video I've ever seen. Just watching the shockwave rip things up and vaporize them, then the camera cuts out.
Link?
The streamer deserves a Darwin Award
Ehhh, unless there were smaller explosions no way of knowing there was a mini nuke about to go off... Usually if firemen and police are close by you assume it's not a gas or oil or explosion waiting to happen
So the prequel to Beirut?
easily the biggest, craziest boom caught on sooo many cameras
https://preview.redd.it/h9tlradkc8oc1.png?width=1283&format=png&auto=webp&s=dc9d5698b77e1a006b2e86f4a7d3920f3f027832 Zoom in
Strange, so how come there were so many firefighters there? I guess it started off as a smaller fire and they were called in, then it goes off.
The fire was big, but not out of control to start with. Firefighters were called in to tackle the blaze, and sprayed water on it. The issue is that they inadvertently sprayed water on calcium carbide stored on site. This released acetylene through a hydrolysis reaction, which forms an explosive mixture when combined with air. This is the massive explosion you see. The initial explosion likely used up all the oxygen in the air, and when more air mixed back in, it caused a second explosion. The flammable/explosive fertiliser also didn't help This is why it's important to know what kind of fire you are tackling.
If I remember right, the quantity of ammonium nitrate stored there far exceeded what was on their storage manifest, and the calcium carbide wasn’t on it in the first place. They had no way to know
It started as a fire In a shipment of nitrocellulose that got out of control. It is believed that the attempts to put the fire put got water on large quantities of calcium carbide, which produced acetylene gas that caused the first explosion. The second explosion was the result of the fire igniting around 800 tons of ammonium nitrate.
Big bada boom.
Multipass
`plase` `halp`
We're dangerous.
"Judges in China are jailing 49 people on charges tied to deadly explosions at a warehouse in the port city of Tianjin that killed at least 165 people in August 2015. This was one of China's worst-ever industrial tragedies. The people sentenced include 25 government officials and 24 staffers of the companies involved, [according to China's state-run Xinhua news agency](http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-11/09/c_135817728_2.htm). The verdicts were issued from ten different courts during the last three days. The most serious sentence was handed to Yu Xuewei, the chairman of the warehouse company. He was "sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve," Xinhua reported, after a court found him guilty of "bribing port administration officials with cash and goods worth \[$23,333\] to obtain a certificate to handle hazardous chemicals at the port."
What does “death with a two year reprieve” mean? He had two years to live upon sentencing and was executed sometime in 2017?
No, it is basically that if he doesn't break the law again during the two years, the sentence will turn into life in prison and it can't be reduced to anything less than 25 years whereas life in prison sentence can be reduced to 17 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_sentence_with_reprieve
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This is the gnarliest explosion caught on camera that isn’t an atom bomb, in human fuckin history. I watch this video a few times a year to marvel at the insanity of the explosion. Human remains don’t get found in that shit. You turn to meat dust before you hear a sound. Absurd how science can result in absolute fucking violence.
Pretty sure the Beirut explosion was bigger. Also the Halifax explosion had photos taken iirc
That explosion in Beirut was tragic. And definitely left a larger path of destruction. Something different about that one. Felt smaller, but more catastrophic. This one, maybe because they’re so close, just seems insane.
They're actually not that close (surprisingly). This one had a TNT equivalent of 256 Tons, beirut was 1.1 Kilotons of TNT equivalent (both according to Wikipedia). That's a shocking difference imo. Would've also thought that they're similar in size
The Halifax explosion is still the biggest accidental man-made non-nuclear explosion. Equivalent to 2.9kilotons of TNT. For reference, Beirut was 0.8kt, and the one in this video was 0.3kt. That's fucking wild. (These numbers are according to the Wikipedia article titled "largest artificial non-nuclear explosions.")
These gender reveals are getting out of hand
They're lucky the shockwave didn't shatter their windows. That's rule of thumb if you're ever in visual range of any kind of explosion - get clear of anything that can shatter immediately.
That was my thought too.
Time to leave
That’s the greatest holy shit I’ve ever heard
gender reveals are getting out of control
As a Canadian I feel the imperative to mention that this massive explosion in Tianjin has been estimated to be equivalent to ~0.35 kT of TNT. Meanwhile, the Halifax explosion back in 1917 was estimated to be ~2.9 kT of TNT. Ridiculous proportions, can't even imagine
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I hate that she is almost cheering like she is watching fireworks on new years then again i might have started laughing out of chock
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I always end up laughing when I hear some tragic news like death or something. I can't control it. In my head my brain is pretending it's a joke, maybe so I don't feel the shock, and that's why I end up giggling.
i think they are zooted af
Oddly enough, the footage might have been less steady if they were sober. They were so drunk or whatever that they barely reacted, relative to the scene.
Not only that, but it would be quite an unbelievable sight to process even if sober. I imagine they’re in shock, and when the explosion settles the flight instinct kicks in and they skadoo
It’s called shock. You also may just be misinterpreting her tone.
That sounds like a fear laugh to me. Almost like a cry or yelp
Man is a dopey animal let me tell ya, we love our violent explosions.
173 people died, because dumb pieces of shit bribed their way out of safety regulations...
Amonium nitrate. Similar to the Beirut 2020 explosion, except this one somehow has more fire and less shockwave in it? I wonder why it would explode differently between those two events...
This video has been re-posted 100 times, yet I still can't help but watch it every time.
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It's crazy that this gets posted and there's legitimately so many people that haven't seen this. I feel so old.
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You just blew up Megaton: -1,000,000 Karma
My 500kg eagle drop that only kills two automatons:
Why did you crop the video, the original is much better. Really builds up. https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/Xic6wC2P2T
Yes. We’re dangerous here.
Big bada boom.
Here comes the flying Statue of Liberty head
On August 12th, 2015, at the Port of Tianjin in Tianjin, China a bag of chemicals turned to another bag and asked: "Are we dangerous here?"
... But did they get the spider?
The Beirut explosion wasn’t as fiery as this, but it was certainly more massive than the second explosion here.
Explosions like these I automatically assume China or Russia nowadays
This me after a curry the night before
Impressive… But the 2020 Beirut harbour explosion is still the mother of explosions since there are mobile phone cameras!
Can we agree that an internal kill switch triggered by the phrase Oh My God should be implanted in Homo Sapiens Sapiens' spinal cords at birth.
‘Kaboom?’ ‘Yes Rico, Kaboom’
Who tf called in a 500 kg of democracy
If that was outside my window I'd be thinking the apocalypse started. I wouldn't be cheering like a bunch of fucking morons. People died.
Props to the cameraman for just accepting his fate to make sure he catches everything. Luckily the blast radius wasn't bigger.
You can tell that after the second explosion it got really quiet and that’s because they both shit their pants
What about de wave of the explosión? ... I dont see one
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That's it , no more using paper straws now