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RE: Kaboom: Texas's turn.
April 19, 2013 at 10:30 pm
(April 18, 2013 at 11:41 am)festive1 Wrote: There are lots of videos of the explosion… I don't know why I find that surprising, this is Texas we're talking about… If I saw a fertilizer plant on fire, my first instinct would be to go speedily in the opposite direction, not say, "Hey kids!!! The fertilizer plant is on fire! Let's go check it out!" -__-
You kidding? Explosions and fire are fucking beautiful and interesting, man 
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RE: Kaboom: Texas's turn.
April 19, 2013 at 11:00 pm
(April 19, 2013 at 10:30 pm)Violet Lilly Blossom Wrote: (April 18, 2013 at 11:41 am)festive1 Wrote: There are lots of videos of the explosion… I don't know why I find that surprising, this is Texas we're talking about… If I saw a fertilizer plant on fire, my first instinct would be to go speedily in the opposite direction, not say, "Hey kids!!! The fertilizer plant is on fire! Let's go check it out!" -__-
You kidding? Explosions and fire are fucking beautiful and interesting, man I wanna see something explode in real life. I've only seen it in movies or on the news. It would be great if it was my old elementary school. Only if the kids were out of it, of course. I don't want children to explode. Only sucky institutions.
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RE: Kaboom: Texas's turn.
April 19, 2013 at 11:30 pm
Are we any closer to understanding why the plant went Big Badah Boom?
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RE: Kaboom: Texas's turn.
April 19, 2013 at 11:40 pm
There seems to be way too many jokes about something people probably died in.
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RE: Kaboom: Texas's turn.
April 19, 2013 at 11:46 pm
(April 19, 2013 at 11:40 pm)Gearbreak Wrote: There seems to be way too many jokes about something people probably died in.
it was big, it was bad (people died) and it went boom.
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RE: Kaboom: Texas's turn.
April 20, 2013 at 10:55 am
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(April 19, 2013 at 11:00 pm)futilethewinds Wrote: I wanna see something explode in real life. I've only seen it in movies or on the news. It would be great if it was my old elementary school. Only if the kids were out of it, of course. I don't want children to explode. Only sucky institutions.
Tire. Hill. Gas. Lit fuse = Fireball!
Alternately, one can fill a barrel with gas, and have some heavy machinery drop a flame into it. I got to experience that explosion from a mile away... very sexy fire pillar.
Explosions are fun when controlled, and concerning when one isn't expecting them. Or exciting, if you're far enough away and there's nothing you care about near it 
(April 19, 2013 at 11:40 pm)Gearbreak Wrote: There seems to be way too many jokes about something people probably died in.
Never too many jokes, we've hardly started. People did die in it: this at most adds flavor to the jokes.
(April 19, 2013 at 11:46 pm)KichigaiNeko Wrote: it was big, it was bad (people died) and it went boom.
It was tiny, it was good (people died), and it went boom. 
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RE: Kaboom: Texas's turn.
April 20, 2013 at 11:37 am
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(April 19, 2013 at 11:00 pm)futilethewinds Wrote: (April 19, 2013 at 10:30 pm)Violet Lilly Blossom Wrote: You kidding? Explosions and fire are fucking beautiful and interesting, man I wanna see something explode in real life. I've only seen it in movies or on the news. It would be great if it was my old elementary school. Only if the kids were out of it, of course. I don't want children to explode. Only sucky institutions. Bet it wouldn't be as satisfying as you think. Better to watch it on TV (or at least from very far away). It feels like someone hit your kidney with a sledgehammer, your ears ring and you get dizzy - your vision blurs and it;s hard to remember your name. You spend some time stumbling around like a moron but most people collapse and go unconscious. Your ears ring for awhile (and it feels like someone stuck a knitting needle all the way to your brain). Alot of people piss and shit themselves before or after this point. Afterwards, everything is sore, and a pencil dropping can make you tear up without understanding why(for some).
(all of this - mind you, is from a relatively "safe" distance and/or no shrapnel or debris comes your way, a category which would include pieces of bone and teeth-and buttons)
Heard a story from a medic about a guy, by the by, who had one side or the other of his jaw shattered by a particularly nasty blast wave. Knocked out his teeth - which promptly lodged themselves in the flesh of the back f his throat. Good stuff
Just figured I'd add a little downer to the thread.
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RE: Kaboom: Texas's turn.
April 20, 2013 at 2:06 pm
(April 19, 2013 at 11:30 pm)KichigaiNeko Wrote: Are we any closer to understanding why the plant went Big Badah Boom?
I assume you mean what started the fire that caused the explosion. It's not difficult to figure out why it went boom. Add a large fire to a warehouse full of a substance that is not only explosive but acts as an accelerant, and you'll get a really big, fiery explosion out of it.
I'm guessing that the only hope they have of learning what caused the fire is eyewitness reports, since the warehouse (and a fair bit of the area around it) has probably been reduced to a crater.
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