Dat Lurka Posted April 18, 2013 Report Share Posted April 18, 2013 they know for a fact they were already fighting a small fire when it blew, once amonium nitrate hits a certain temprature, it starts a thermal runaway reaction, then there is no stopping it, thats what happened in the 40's there http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster the entire plant was a bomb waiting to go off, they take extreme precautions, but sometimes things happen, when you put a lot of it together, sometimes it starts a reaction on it's own. Is that the one where the anchor was launched inland? Quote Link to comment
lostforawhile Posted April 18, 2013 Report Share Posted April 18, 2013 Is that the one where the anchor was launched inland yea, actually two anchors were launched inland. it was the same thing, ship full of amonium nitrate, it also ignited a second ship full of it nearby, which also blew up. There have been several fertilizer plants that have blown up there over the years. the stuff generates heat, just like spontaneous combustion, sometimes it catches fire, then all hell breaks loose Quote Link to comment
metalmonkey47 Posted April 18, 2013 Report Share Posted April 18, 2013 Mother of god, i hope the little kid in the video is okay. I can't believe how insane that was. Quote Link to comment
lostforawhile Posted April 18, 2013 Report Share Posted April 18, 2013 there were firefighters in there when it blew :confused: why the hell werent they evacuated? you cant put that stuff out, it generates more and more heat until the entire mess becomes a bomb. every one of them are dead, no chance in hell you can survive that, they wont even find their remains, Quote Link to comment
Dat Lurka Posted April 18, 2013 Report Share Posted April 18, 2013 Mother of god, i hope the little kid in the video is okay. I can't believe how insane that was. Looks like it's rolling Quote Link to comment
metalmonkey47 Posted April 18, 2013 Report Share Posted April 18, 2013 Got this screenshot out of that video. Looks brutal. RIP Quote Link to comment
lostforawhile Posted April 18, 2013 Report Share Posted April 18, 2013 I'm waiting for the conspiricy theories to start, the stuff isnt just a fertilizer, it's also a component of explosives, they should have all been gotten the hell out of there, it's not a matter of if it blows, it's when, once that fire was that size, evacuate all the firefighters out of there, no reason they should have died Quote Link to comment
bananahamuck Posted April 18, 2013 Report Share Posted April 18, 2013 Fertilizer dust is dangerous,, as kids we used to take the empty bags of fertilizer and swing them around to inflate and then tape the end and throw them into a fire.. They didn`t all explode ( more didn`t than did ) but some did and it makes a pretty good boom..That was in the 70s so we knew nothing of mixing it with anything else.. A neighbors chemical storage shed caught fire once and there ended up a hole in the ground where at least a 60 x 40 building stood the day before.. Quote Link to comment
gene knight Posted April 18, 2013 Report Share Posted April 18, 2013 dam that is some lethal sh*t. sorry for the pun. i hope that everybody made it out ok and prayers sent to all the people that were there and i hope the little kid is ok and regains his hearing. we here in phoenix,az have some brutal fires like that.i.e. tires, metal recycle plants, forest fires, paint shops, but that would scare the $H!t out of me if i was there even at my current age of 44 Quote Link to comment
ArchetypeDatsun Posted April 18, 2013 Report Share Posted April 18, 2013 Mother of god, i hope the little kid in the video is okay. I can't believe how insane that was. Good god that was loud on my phone I had the volume all the way up I can only imagine how loud that was in person ouch poor kid! Quote Link to comment
TENDRIL Posted April 18, 2013 Report Share Posted April 18, 2013 wow that video was off the hook gave me a startle, i thought it was the aftermath fire.....fuck Quote Link to comment
q-tip Posted April 18, 2013 Report Share Posted April 18, 2013 The military hasn't used fertalizer for bombs for nothin Quote Link to comment
REDnGOLD Posted April 18, 2013 Report Share Posted April 18, 2013 Saw that video yesterday on FB. I actually felt that explosion. My phone speaker was in full blast my phone actually fell when that explosion hit. News claim as many as 15 ppl are feared dead & 160 injured. Thoughts & prayers to d ppl of Waco, TX. Quote Link to comment
metalmonkey47 Posted April 19, 2013 Report Share Posted April 19, 2013 When does it end?? http://www.11alive.com/news/article/289082/40/NBC-News-Explosions-deadly-gunfire-in-Boston-area-overnight Quote Link to comment
datzenmike Posted April 19, 2013 Report Share Posted April 19, 2013 Need them alive. Dead men tell no tales. Quote Link to comment
MikeRL411 Posted April 19, 2013 Report Share Posted April 19, 2013 News stations are full this morning with pursuit of second bomber and death of first bomber. Names etc. fully disclosed. One glaring exception to reporting is Al Jazera English! They are broadcasting what looks like live time reports with one exception. Al Jazera is NOT giving out the names although showing the pictures, and is conveniently neglecting to mention that they are brothers and recent [10 years] immigrants from Chechen. Quote Link to comment
fisch Posted April 19, 2013 Report Share Posted April 19, 2013 Crazy times here in MA. My good friends were at the finish line for the marathon the morning of the bombing, thankfully not there when it happened. My parents use to live a couple blocks from the site. An artist acquaintance of mine knows someone who was hit with shrapnel, and her brother, also there, lost a leg. Fast forward to the last 24hrs, My dad was in the same spot that the MIT police man was killed about 10 min prior as he gets the subway to go home there. My sister lives less than 2 miles from the suspects apartment in Cambridge. She says, "Totally surreal. Fell asleep last night to the sound of endless sirens, woke up to a call from the city of cambridge at 6:30am asking us not to leave our home. Still in "lockdown", streets quiet.Hanging in. Strange strange days." My mom is now in Somerville which is between Watertown and Cambridge where they are also asking folks to stay inside. Naturally the odds of anything bad happening to them are pretty infinitesimal, but it is a pretty bizarre day here in MA. Quote Link to comment
Ooph! Posted April 20, 2013 Report Share Posted April 20, 2013 Congratulations to them for catching the second man and ending this madness. Quote Link to comment
Ratwagon1600 Posted April 20, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2013 Fantastic news here today about the capture of the 2nd of the known subjects and great work by the LEA's and every other person working on this terrible matter. Quote Link to comment
ArchetypeDatsun Posted April 20, 2013 Report Share Posted April 20, 2013 The most messed up thing of it all while we were all occupied about the Boston bombing the government passed a bill "CISPA" to monitor the Internet it's a bill much like SOPA & PIPA. I usually don't talk about this kind of crap and always keep it out of a car forum but this stuff affects all us Internet users. Quote Link to comment
DeviousPsycho620 Posted April 20, 2013 Report Share Posted April 20, 2013 Like Laws Have Stopped Us Before? Lol Quote Link to comment
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