E4 No More

Those aren't in Tennessee unless he took one helluva ride.

Does GOA bombard you with panhandling calls, letters, and emails?

I live in a valley that use to be corn fields and pastures. The next door neighbor found a big one curled up on his patio. They go where the food is, and there are a lot of mice in our fields when you let stuff grow. It's why I keep my land mowed.

What an A-hole remark. You sure don't disappoint.

Either ignorant or stupid. Either way is bad.

That's a special kind of stupid right there.

No feeling of disrespect taken. I was just correcting the record.

I've always banked on the bear not being able to catch me on a slick trail!

Ask your cat.

That's a Marine; not a soldier. Judging from the shooting glove on his left hand and that he is wearing a shooting jacket, I'd say he's part of the Marine Corp's marksmanship team. I have no idea what that is covering the muzzle of his rifle as it is well before I was born.

"Bowing" alley?

You mean like Mylar, Velcro and Tang?

I saw a video yesterday shot from the inland side of the explosion similar in angle as Dave's after picture. It showed what looked like fireworks going off in the fire right before the explosion. They were the crackly kind of mortar fireworks that would be hard to mistake for something else. It clearly wasn't a terror attack to me. Fireworks burning near stored Ammonium Nitrate is perfectly plausible.

Me too. It was interesting to see the video.

Personally, I doubt it. The blast could move water to the ocean side of the building, but the cloud had water vapor all the way around it. You can tell by the video shot from the aspect showing the other side of the grain storage building. Also, Ammonium Nitrate makes a lot of water when it explodes, so the vapor cloud makes sense. JMHO

I know. We had a couple of them blow-up in Kansas City when I was much younger. I read somewhere were it was mostly empty, and stored 85% of Lebanon's grain.

I'm surprised a lot of the grain storage building is still standing when it was that close to the blast.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/new-satellite-images-show-devastation-from-beirut-explosions It looks capsized in the after photo at this link. It left and almost 140 Meter crater now filled with water.

Explains the large amount of water vapor in the cloud too. The Ammonium Nitrate is a lower order explosive than TNT, so it makes sense that it doesn't need pressure to explode - just rapid heating which a fireworks fire certainly can do. https://www.cnet.com/how-to/beirut-explosion-how-ammonium-nitrate-caused-deadly-blast-in-lebanon/ When heated to above 170 degrees Fahrenheit, ammonium nitrate begins to undergo decomposition. But with rapid heating or detonation, a chemical reaction can occur that converts ammonium nitrate to nitrogen and oxygen gas and water vapor. The products of the reaction are harmless -- they're found in our atmosphere -- but the process releases huge amounts of energy.

Ain't that the truth! In the case of the Ammonium Nitrate explosion in Kansas City, it went off by nothing but an arson fire. The trailer wasn't marked to contain explosives.

Yes, the OKC bomb was actually several slurry bombs in the rental truck that used diesel mixed with Ammonium Nitrate and blasting caps. IIRC, high order explosives take heat and pressure to set them off. That's why our artillery shells that are filled with composition B had TNT right under the fuse. The fuse triggered the TNT, and the TNT triggered the Comp B. In the case of Ammonium Nitrate it takes a lot of heat to set it off, but the chain reaction is astounding.

https://www.firehouse.com/rescue/article/10495115/november-1988-six-kc-firefighters-killed-in-ammonium-nitrate-explosion I lived in Kansas City at the time when this explosion of a trailer full of ammonium nitrate killed the firefighters. The devastation to the truck and area were memorable and unbelievable.

My dad worked in IT for a life insurance company. When I was young I remember him taking me to work and showing me multiple floors of reel-to-reel tapes. It's kind of surreal to think that my notebook or phone has more storage than those floors of tape machines and tapes.

Actually, I miss-typed the above. It's 5 Billion years, not millions. Basically, they take what they know from experiments and plug it into a incredibly powerful computer system to calculate what will happen. As far as God is concerned, He dictates our physical reality whereas science attempts to explain it.

How is me commenting on a post is me doing you? You seem a bit defensive.