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Lady EriLady Eri Registered User regular
edited January 2009 in Social Entropy++
So the Pepcon explosion, which was the biggest non-nuclear non-natural explosion, was 1 kiloton and registered 3.5 on the richter scale. It injured thousands in Las Vegas back in 1988. The first explosion is big, but it's not that, wait til about 2:20 seconds in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8RY_ibNq3c

I think this thread should be for things that go boom.

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  • Clint EastwoodClint Eastwood My baby's in there someplace She crawled right inRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    This is from that explosion in Toronto last year, I think Dread Pirate Arbuthnot made a thread about it actually. It's pretty damn crazy, you can even see the shockwave!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__1Ym_F94CE

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  • Lady EriLady Eri Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    You can hear the car crash in the back of the videotape. :)

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  • Clint EastwoodClint Eastwood My baby's in there someplace She crawled right inRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I know, it's fantastic. I'm just relieved nobody died in this explosion (I think) so I don't feel as bad for laughing and being all DAAAAAAAAAYUM whenever I watch it.

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  • vrstvrst Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Can you see the blue alien death ray in the second video

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  • Lady EriLady Eri Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Cloudman wrote: »
    I know, it's fantastic. I'm just relieved nobody died in this explosion (I think) so I don't feel as bad for laughing and being all DAAAAAAAAAYUM whenever I watch it.

    A veteran firefighter died of a heart attack shortly after the explosion.

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  • Clint EastwoodClint Eastwood My baby's in there someplace She crawled right inRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Lady Eri wrote: »
    Cloudman wrote: »
    I know, it's fantastic. I'm just relieved nobody died in this explosion (I think) so I don't feel as bad for laughing and being all DAAAAAAAAAYUM whenever I watch it.

    A veteran firefighter died of a heart attack shortly after the explosion.
    well fuck

    Thanks for ruining it for me :(

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  • PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Thread reminded me of a comparatively smaller explosion that happened near here a couple years back in Danvers when a chemical plant blew up. Couldn't find any particularly good video footage of it occurring, mostly just the fire afterwards.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11Ej7OJ-beo

    And an overhead of the aftermath.

    6-Danvers-Explosion.jpg

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  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Cloudman wrote: »
    This is from that explosion in Toronto last year, I think Dread Pirate Arbuthnot made a thread about it actually. It's pretty damn crazy, you can even see the shockwave!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__1Ym_F94CE

    Are those embers or whatever hanging above it afterward?

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  • Clint EastwoodClint Eastwood My baby's in there someplace She crawled right inRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I think so, yeah

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  • ZephosZephos Climbin in yo ski lifts, snatchin your people up. MichiganRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Testing an A-10 Thunderbolt (the "warthog") GAU-8 Avenger cannon outside of the fuselage of the plane...

    not exactly an explosion, but impressive none the less.

    In interviews with Iraqi POW's the A-10 is often cited as one of the main points of fear. (in part to the A-10's main role as close air support, most other attacking planes are out of visual range, but its a scary fucking plane nonetheless.)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sALiuWg_I1k

    and random note, the A-10 is the only plane that collects its brass.

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  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    That's pretty cool

    I mean uh

    Bad

    Explosions are bad

    e: that was about the embers thing, not the failed embedding

    Though that is pretty funny

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  • Volucrisus AedriusVolucrisus Aedrius Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2FGA3Z-oYM

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Zephos wrote: »
    Testing an A-10 Thunderbolt (the "warthog") GAU-8 Avenger cannon outside of the fuselage of the plane...

    not exactly an explosion, but impressive none the less.

    In interviews with Iraqi POW's the A-10 is often cited as one of the main points of fear. (in part to the A-10's main role as close air support, most other attacking planes are out of visual range, but its a scary fucking plane nonetheless.)

    [video!]

    and random note, the A-10 is the only plane that collects its brass.

    I will be totally honest and say I really have no idea what I was watching there. o_O

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  • Mister LongbaughMister Longbaugh Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    explosions are the best.

    i got to fire various mortars and the best one was the 120mm. when the round goes out of the tube it will shatter your eardrums if you're nearby and not wearing earplugs.

    we also got to go downrange and watch 120mm rounds impact. we were about a mile away and the shockwave from the blasts shook the small building we were in.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m21epFTkuLg&feature=related

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  • Volucrisus AedriusVolucrisus Aedrius Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    My friend just got out of Iraq. While he was over there he used to play around with a Mk 19.

    Those things are intimidating as fuck for being a relatively small-bore weapon.

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  • Mister LongbaughMister Longbaugh Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    the mk19 is pretty cool. i got to go through a couple boxes of ammo for it but the detonation just leaves something to be desired.

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  • ArtreusArtreus I'm a wizard And that looks fucked upRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Maddoc wrote: »
    Zephos wrote: »
    Testing an A-10 Thunderbolt (the "warthog") GAU-8 Avenger cannon outside of the fuselage of the plane...

    not exactly an explosion, but impressive none the less.

    In interviews with Iraqi POW's the A-10 is often cited as one of the main points of fear. (in part to the A-10's main role as close air support, most other attacking planes are out of visual range, but its a scary fucking plane nonetheless.)

    [video!]

    and random note, the A-10 is the only plane that collects its brass.

    I will be totally honest and say I really have no idea what I was watching there. o_O

    Big, fast gun test firing.

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  • Volucrisus AedriusVolucrisus Aedrius Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Holy fuck, guys.

    Imagine being able to fire a fucking 80mm mortar on your shoulder.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyAl9qK3Rlg

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  • Clint EastwoodClint Eastwood My baby's in there someplace She crawled right inRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    D:

    On a semi-related note, I could never a hang of using the mortar in Worms Armageddon.

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  • Mister LongbaughMister Longbaugh Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    that is ridiculous

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  • MeizMeiz Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    The MOAB

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aBfOOo-n5k

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Volucrisus Aedrius wrote: »
    Holy fuck, guys.

    Imagine being able to fire a fucking 80mm mortar on your shoulder.

    [holy damnit recoil]

    D:

    Wouldn't want to be standing behind that guy.
    Or, I guess, in front of him.

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  • Waka LakaWaka Laka Riding the stuffed Unicorn If ya know what I mean.Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Blow up your Home town

    Go on, it'll be fun. Many weapons at your disposal. My favourite is the Tsar Bomba

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  • Waka LakaWaka Laka Riding the stuffed Unicorn If ya know what I mean.Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Also the reason we watch Mythbusters

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  • The_ScarabThe_Scarab Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1flVlL4Mf8k

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  • Mister LongbaughMister Longbaugh Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    biggest bomb ever detonated

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfoQsZa8F1c

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  • MeizMeiz Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Volucrisus Aedrius wrote: »
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2FGA3Z-oYM

    OH I just caught this after posting the MOAB vid.

    I did not know that.

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  • Volucrisus AedriusVolucrisus Aedrius Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    The creation of the Tsar Bomba was just such an intensely Soviet response.

    "Well, our guidance systems aren't as good as the Americans so we're just gonna make our nukes bigger so if we miss our target by a little it won't really matter."

    You gotta love those crazy Russians sometimes.

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Poorochondriac wrote: »
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    ahahahaha <3

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  • The_ScarabThe_Scarab Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCbbLyfdYYk

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk__2n6S9MA&feature=related

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE--i9halMk&feature=related

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PjPwBErCXU&feature=related

    Fookin' ell!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKulBlYqI40&feature=related

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  • RocketScienceRocketScience Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Cloudman wrote: »
    Lady Eri wrote: »
    Cloudman wrote: »
    I know, it's fantastic. I'm just relieved nobody died in this explosion (I think) so I don't feel as bad for laughing and being all DAAAAAAAAAYUM whenever I watch it.

    A veteran firefighter died of a heart attack shortly after the explosion.
    well fuck

    Thanks for ruining it for me :(
    And he was only one day away from retirement.

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    FROM THE MAKERS OF "REALLY BIG EXPLOSIONS" COMES

    REALLY BIG EXPLOSIONS AND FART NOISES

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  • MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    man I love when shit blows up.

    I love it so much I don't even care that people might be hurt.

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  • L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Has someone posted that video of an IED buried under the road in Iraq where the sand kind of stays together and the humvee swerves to the right? That is cool.



    One of my favourite documentaries ever is that one about nuclear weapons that Shatner narrates, it's pretty much just 2 hours of huge ass mushroom clouds. So impressive.

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  • BYToadyBYToady Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0Xh9n2-Sp0

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  • MeizMeiz Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHm-w8Zd5K0

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2009
    BYToady wrote: »
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0Xh9n2-Sp0
    ahahahaha

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2009
    Meiz wrote: »
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHm-w8Zd5K0
    so in a thread about real explosions, you post a video of a really stupid fake blast

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