Have some gifs of rocket disasters:
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[IMG]http://img.gawkerassets.com/post/4/2013/01/04.gif[/IMG]
[IMG]http://img.gawkerassets.com/post/4/2013/01/20.gif[/IMG]
[IMG]http://img.gawkerassets.com/post/4/2013/01/15.gif[/IMG]
[IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BlObVv6CIAA-kGI.jpg[/IMG]
This was without a doubt my favorite cosplay I saw at PAX. Tali is probably my favorite ME character and god damn it this cosplayer was a real cutie. <3
[QUOTE=Griffster26;44548201][IMG]http://img.gawkerassets.com/post/4/2013/01/07.gif[/IMG][/QUOTE]
I recognize this explosion, what's it from?
[QUOTE=lope;44548234]I recognize this explosion, what's it from?[/QUOTE]
The [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEPCON_disaster"]PEPCON disaster[/URL], which happened on May 4, 1988.
[QUOTE=Griffster26;44548291][IMG]http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18bl3iigxzl9ijpg/original.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Wasn't this very recent?
[QUOTE=lope;44548234]I recognize this explosion, what's it from?[/QUOTE]
PEPCON, a place that made rocket fuel. Thankfully, only two people died during the disaster.
[QUOTE=lope;44548300]Wasn't this very recent?[/QUOTE]
According to a brief Google search it was 10/23/09
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[url]http://www.csb.gov/caribbean-petroleum-refining-tank-explosion-and-fire/[/url]
Is this suitable, while we're on the subject of things blowing up?
[video=youtube;sl-JgyQA7u0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl-JgyQA7u0[/video]
Natural Gas:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW9sW_fJqOo[/media]
Can turn a house into toothpicks.
[QUOTE=Griffster26;44547976]
[IMG]http://img.gawkerassets.com/post/4/2013/01/04.gif[/IMG]
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IIRC, this was the soviet N1 rocket, which was meant to be the USSR's equivalent of the saturn V
when it exploded, it created what may have been the largest artifical non-nuclear explosion in history
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it exploded with a yield of 7 kilotons of TNT, which is bigger than any of North Korea's weapon tests, assuming they actually work
[img]http://i.imgur.com/8lQqfF1.jpg[/img]
New Holland 1681, what is now Australia.
[QUOTE=Gen. Crumpets;44549934]IIRC, this was the soviet N1 rocket, which was meant to be the USSR's equivalent of the saturn V
when it exploded, it created what may have been the largest artifical non-nuclear explosion in history
[/QUOTE]
I thought it was Halifax:
[T]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Halifax_Explosion_blast_cloud.jpg[/T]
[QUOTE]The overnight express train No. 10 from Saint John, NB, carrying nearly 300 passengers, was due to arrive at 8:55 a.m. Before leaving the office, Lovett called CGR terminal agent Henry Dustan to warn him of a burning ship laden with explosives that was heading for the pier.[4] After sending his initial message, Coleman and Lovett were said to have left the CGR depot. However, the dispatcher returned to the telegraph office and continued sending warning messages along the rail line as far as Truro to stop trains inbound for Halifax. An accepted version of Coleman's Morse code message reads as follows:
"Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire in harbor making for Pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye boys."[5]
The telegraphed warnings were apparently heeded, as the No. 10 passenger train was stopped just before the explosion occurred. The train was halted at Rockingham Station, on the western shore of Bedford Basin, approximately 6.4 kilometres (4.0 mi) from the downtown terminal. After the explosion, Coleman's message, followed by other messages later sent by railway officials who made their way to Rockingham, passed word of the disaster to the rest of Canada. The railway quickly mobilized aid, sending a dozen relief trains with fire and medical help from towns in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick on the day of the disaster, followed two days later by help from other parts of Canada and from the United States, most notably Boston. Even though Lovett had left the station, both he and Coleman were killed in the explosion.[6][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Griffster26;44550170]I thought it was Halifax:
[T]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Halifax_Explosion_blast_cloud.jpg[/T][/QUOTE]
wikipedia says that was only 2.9 kilotons as opposed to the N1's 7, but it's hard to tell these kind of things with accidents, especially since lots of the original contents of whatever explodes ceases to exist
on the topic of fucking huge explosions, here's hurricane: the uk's first atomic weapon
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Op_hurricane.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Griffster26;44547976][IMG]http://img.gawkerassets.com/post/4/2013/01/14.gif[/IMG][/QUOTE]
This is why you make certain you're in the correct gear before hitting the gas.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/D2fzZ7O.gif[/IMG]
The Texas City Disaster was pretty nasty
[img]http://www.findingdulcinea.com/docroot/dulcinea/fd_images/news/on-this-day/April/Texas-City-Disaster/news/0/image.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.texascity-library.org/disaster/images/monsanto.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.usace.army.mil/portals/2/siteimages/120110-M-LC381-002.jpg[/img]
Basically is what happened was, is that a ship carrying a metric fuck load of fertilizer exploded, and then set fire and detonated a bunch of surrounding ships and then they set fire to everything else. Almost 600 people were killed and by the time the fires were out, only 1 fire department member was still alive.
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The Battle of Messines had a very large explosion that killed 10,000 German soldiers
[img]http://myfamilyatwar.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/hawthorn_ridge_mine_1_july_1916.jpg[/img]
[quote=Wikipedia]On 7 June 1917, nineteen (of a planned twenty-one) huge mines, containing a total of over 455 tons of ammonal explosives, were set off beneath German lines on the Messines-Wytschaete ridge. The explosion, which killed about 10,000 Germans, was heard as far away as London and Dublin. While determining the power of explosions is difficult, this was probably the largest planned explosion in history until the 1945 Trinity atomic weapon test, and the largest non-nuclear planned explosion until the 1947 British Heligoland detonation (below). The Messines mines detonation killed more people than any other non-nuclear man-made explosion in history.[/quote]
And here is what the crater looks like today, with people for comparison
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Lochnagar_Crater_Ovillers.JPG[/img]
That'd be pretty cool to go to with a sleigh in the winter and sliding down.
Thats Lochnagar Mine. I went there a few years ago with my school on a trip, I think I posted pictures a bunch of pages ago of the trip.
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;44552099]The Texas City Disaster was pretty nasty
[img]http://www.findingdulcinea.com/docroot/dulcinea/fd_images/news/on-this-day/April/Texas-City-Disaster/news/0/image.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.texascity-library.org/disaster/images/monsanto.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.usace.army.mil/portals/2/siteimages/120110-M-LC381-002.jpg[/img]
Basically is what happened was, is that a ship carrying a metric fuck load of fertilizer exploded, and then set fire and detonated a bunch of surrounding ships and then they set fire to everything else. Almost 600 people were killed and by the time the fires were out, only 1 fire department member was still alive.[/QUOTE]
A plane flying overhead got its wings sheared off.
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I also got more pics of Texas City:
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/62/Txctydistance.jpg[/t]
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/77/Txctywilsonbkeene.jpg[/t]
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5d/Txctydestroyedbusiness.jpg[/t]
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0e/Txcitywaiting.jpg[/t]
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/01/Txctyfiretruck.jpg[/t]
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/47/Txctysurveying.jpg[/t]
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cd/Txctydestroyedcars.jpg[/t]
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d5/Txctyabandoned.jpg[/t]
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Txcitydisaster5storybuilding.jpg[/t]
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Txcitydisasterparkinglot.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=McTbone;44552715]The Battle of Messines had a very large explosion that killed 10,000 German soldiers
[img]http://myfamilyatwar.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/hawthorn_ridge_mine_1_july_1916.jpg[/img]
And here is what the crater looks like today, with people for comparison
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Lochnagar_Crater_Ovillers.JPG[/img][/QUOTE]
That's fucking insane, I heard the Allies set off an explosion big enough to make an entire trench collapse (literally close up with the force), burying a bunch of German soldiers alive. I wonder if it's the same one.
[QUOTE=McTbone;44552715]The Battle of Messines had a very large explosion that killed 10,000 German soldiers
[img]http://myfamilyatwar.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/hawthorn_ridge_mine_1_july_1916.jpg[/img]
And here is what the crater looks like today, with people for comparison
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Lochnagar_Crater_Ovillers.JPG[/img][/QUOTE]
WWI really did change up the way we fought wars, Jesus. Did the blast from the explosion just liquefy the internal organs of any German within a mile around the mines?
"MyNoise" just released a new noise.
[url]http://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/canyonDroneGenerator.php[/url]
I really like it. Incredibly soothing.
[QUOTE=booster;44555283]"MyNoise" just released a new noise.
[url]http://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/canyonDroneGenerator.php[/url]
I really like it. Incredibly soothing.[/QUOTE]
They released that a while ago.
The only recently added one I've noticed is the Summer Night one.
[QUOTE=Cold Finger;44555393]They released that a while ago.
The only recently added one I've noticed is the Summer Night one.[/QUOTE]
Aye, but that's for premium users only.
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