[ExI] 3 kt?

[Dylan Distasio]

An alternative explanation proposing a Hezbollah arms depot.   One of the
claims is that ammonium nitrate smoke is yellow, not the reddish/orange
seen.

I'd be interested to hear Spike's thoughts on this thread.   It's pretty
extensive:

https://twitter.com/HeshmatAlavi/status/1292475515308310530

On Thu, Aug 6, 2020, 9:25 PM Dylan Distasio <interzone at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks.  Again, I'm out of my element, and will defer to the EXPERTS on
> this one!
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> On Thu, Aug 6, 2020, 8:57 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> *On Behalf Of *Dylan Distasio via extropy-chat
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>> >…I have to admit as a layman though that it looked like it could have
>> been a ~200K ton nuke when first watching the footage based on the cloud
>> and blast radius.  I'm glad of course that doesn't appear to be the case…
>> Dylan
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>> Oh my no, a 200 KT nuke would have had a far different signature.
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>> There was a video of a young lady having a photo-shoot done.  There was a
>> yellow glow on her dress about a second before the shock wave arrived.
>> From the size of the debris and how fast it blew about, along with the
>> color of the reflected glow on her dress, all that counter-indicated even a
>> really small nuke.
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>> Agreed, this is good news that it wasn’t a nuke, and probably just some
>> bonehead who abandoned all that fertilizer without any intentions of
>> bombing Beirut.
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>> spike
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