Blowing in the Wind
06/08/2020 09:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
izmeinaSome history geek DJ played this on the radio this morning
I wonder what sort of monstrosity will be named in honour of Mary Trump
It is kind of creepy that this anniversary turns up the day after the explosions in Beirut. That was about 2.5 thousand tons of ammonium nitrate and could be heard in Cyprus some several hundred miles away. The Hiroshima bomb was 13 kiloton which is pipsqueak stuff by today's standards
It is astonishing to think that such flammable material could be left in a warehouse for 6 years or so. Didn't these people ever do chemistry at school. It literally was a ticking time bomb
There have been many bushfires in Australia triggered by people welding on fire ban days because somehow welding doesn't quite count as fire in most folks minds but this is a whole new level of craziness
It was probably already prohibitively expensive to get any sort of insurance in Beirut if even possible at all. So all the people killed or injured or who have their houses destroyed will be left to pick up the pieces.
A lot of people may also suffer severe hearing loss or brain damage from the shock wave. And the force of this explosion is positively pea sized compared to some of the stuff that can be unleashed from the infamous Football.
I wonder what sort of monstrosity will be named in honour of Mary Trump
It is kind of creepy that this anniversary turns up the day after the explosions in Beirut. That was about 2.5 thousand tons of ammonium nitrate and could be heard in Cyprus some several hundred miles away. The Hiroshima bomb was 13 kiloton which is pipsqueak stuff by today's standards
It is astonishing to think that such flammable material could be left in a warehouse for 6 years or so. Didn't these people ever do chemistry at school. It literally was a ticking time bomb
There have been many bushfires in Australia triggered by people welding on fire ban days because somehow welding doesn't quite count as fire in most folks minds but this is a whole new level of craziness
It was probably already prohibitively expensive to get any sort of insurance in Beirut if even possible at all. So all the people killed or injured or who have their houses destroyed will be left to pick up the pieces.
A lot of people may also suffer severe hearing loss or brain damage from the shock wave. And the force of this explosion is positively pea sized compared to some of the stuff that can be unleashed from the infamous Football.
