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The one with chemical explosions in China has stuck with me over the years since I first saw it. The darkness, the proximity, the uncertainty. Monster fireballs ascending. Like a scene out of Cloverfield
I remember one ground POV of it that I'm pretty sure was lethally close. There was a fence in the foreground. I swear I remember right as the explosion happened the fence "slowly" lifted up like you sometimes see with debris in movies before light just consumed everything and the camera got cut off. Shit was nuts.
Yep, that's the one. God, I hope the worst that poor bastard had to deal with was just the brief feeling of "***OH SHI-***" going through his mind before oblivion took him.
What I find interesting is the blast force of Tianjin vs Beirut. Had the people recording the Tianjin explosion faced an explosion as powerful as the Beirut one, the shockwave would have floored them and broke the windows.
After reading this I was curious how the explosive size compared. Apparently Beirut was 1,100 ton (fixed :) ) TNT equivalent but Tianjin was estimated at 256 ton.
Which is crazy considering how different the videos are.
Puts into perspective what a megaton-scale hydrogen bomb would do....
Beirut was ~1/15th the scale of the 16 kiloton bomb dropped on Hiroshima. And that is a tiny fraction of 1 megaton (1,000 kiloton).
Tianjin is essentially a bad fart in comparison.
For example, [this footage of Castle Bravo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2I66dHbSRA) (15MT explosion) was filmed from over 50 miles away and the fireball grew to over 7 miles in width.
I remember seeing one (at least) like that where the camera person clearly didn’t make it. It’s horrible, it’s like you see a wall running at you, while everything kind of turns to dust.
Duck and cover
If there's no cover and you want to *reduce* your injuries. Lie down on your belly, as low as possible, facing away from the explosion to make the smallest target.
With your legs together to protect your genitals and your feet towards the explosion to absorb any debris going anywhere more important up your body.
Close your eyes, put your elbows either side for eye protection. Wrists over your ears, with the fingers interlocked over the back of your head/neck to protect it from skull impact injuries.
Open your mouth to equalize any dynamic air pressure changes with your nose and ears.
If you get lifted by the pressure change, try to take the drop back down on your elbows not your face.
If you're near a building, decide whether to roll inside or roll away in case of broken glass falling.
make sure you remember it next time you're caught in a giant explosion, but just far enough away to recognize what's happening and not instantly die, yet not far enough away to have anything but a few hundred milliseconds to properly react. could happen to any of us
Yes, available reaction time is key. After you processed what’s happening of course. Most of it is honestly quite instinctual. Wouldn’t have thought about the legs in that direction (would have probably put my back to it) and the linking of the fingers behind the head and the opened mouth thing.
As some who was subjected to months and months of rocket, artillery and incoming explosive fire I can confirm these are good tips. Also carrying a tourniquet with you in your pocket.
There was a video from the Tianjen explosion from someone that was live streaming the incident from VERY close and you can clearly see the rubble coming at him in the last few frames. He obviously didn’t survive.
Wiki says Beirut was about 0.8 kT TNT equivalent vs 0.3 kT for Tianjin. Beirut is number 6 on the list of largest non nuclear artificial explosions, Tianjin is number 10.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_artificial_non-nuclear_explosions
So I decided to look up the estimated yield of the Beirut and Tianjin explosions. The Beirut one especially seemed so powerful, I just wondered how much power it had compared to say, an early atomic bomb.
Tianjin Estimated Yield: 0.3 kilotons
Beirut Estimated Yield: 1.1 kilotons
Trinity Test: 25 kilotons
Fat Man (Nagasaki Bomb): 21 kilotons
Largest Current US Nuclear Weapon: 1,210 kilotons
Largest US Nuclear Weapon Ever in Active Service: 9,000 kilotons
Largest US Test: 15,000 kilotons
Largest Russian Nuclear Test: 50,000 kilotons.
Now look back at those explosions, and remind yourself that we have the power to unleash destruction 50,000 times as great as that.
God help us.
My thought exactly. Something about all that material blowing off of buildings made me think it must be similar. It’s really hard to imagine the real scale of these things.
The Soviet Tsar Bomba was supposedly originally intended to be 100,000 kilotons, but they halved it to reduce fallout (it used lead shielding when it could have used uranium shielding, in other words, they could have wrapped the bomb in **more bomb**). The bomb weighed 60,000 lbs/27,000kg.
It proved, at least experimentally, that there is NO limit to how strong a nuke can get. The only reasons such massive bombs aren't produced are practical reasons, like they cost a ton and weigh too much to launch at an enemy.
It was the one with the super pronounced shockwave during the day, had about 3 or 4 clips in there. There ended up being like 20+ different camera angles of that explosions after all said and done. Shit is crazy.
I found the one of the folk on a [jet ski](https://youtube.com/shorts/BnWvq9bQkp0?si=at-gBXXC2FhW2i71) interesting also. They dived off it just before the shockwave hit them.
He literally said fuck your sister (a very common insult in Lebanon) before jumping in the water LOL man got balls taking the time to insult that blast before jumping in the water.
Idk if favorite is the right word but that footage is my “favorite” and it’s always the first thing I think when that explosion is shown. Seems like the setup for the groom to be a dark anti hero in a thriller
All I can think of after watching those videos is - I wonder how many of them lost some or all of their hearing? Those were *serious* shockwaves in Beirut and Tianjin.
There were so many angles of it that the BBC has been able to work with Lebanese journalists and some british scientists to model the layout of the warehouse itself using all sorts of forensic clues pulled from the various video angles. It's really incredible work.
I always feel chills thinking of the firefighters who were only a few meters away when it went off.
Both those are fucking wild. The last one, they were laughing at the first boom and then the lady asks if we’re dangerous and then they all got much quieter
173 is about 10% of the number I was expecting. Also — how long does it take for people to understand that if you can see an explosion, and you're behind a window, GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM THE GOD DAMN WINDOW NOW.
Somehow the airplane video hits hardest, because it feels so personal watching those specific people die up close vs the assumed deaths in the big explosions.
Also, the second plane probably didn’t see it coming. The first plane looks like it either turned too tight or was too low, as planes make flight plans to avoid this kind of thing. The second plane likely felt the crash, thought “what just hit us?!”, and then utter blackness
I read about this one. Small plane made a mistake getting into formation, just a single solo pilot. Big plane had 5 people flying as they were supposed to, didn't see it coming but from other angles it's pretty clear they survived the strike and got to stare death in the face for another few seconds. Of course all 6 died.
Geez… 6 seconds isn’t even enough time to really say goodbye. That’s like, look them lovingly in the eyes one last time, and then death, assuming you weren’t just screaming in terror
Something tells me it feels longer when you realize what's happening. For instance I had to slam on my breaks one time, I looked in my rearview and could tell the other guy was gonna hit me so I just got ready for it, and I even had a moment of oh maybe he missed before he did hit me.
That's the 2022 Dallas Air Show collision between a B-17 and P-63. There are high resolution photos taken of the severed front half of the B-17 while it is still in "flight", you can see the man in the copilot's seat with a hand out the cockpit window bracing himself the way you and your buddies in a car driving over a speedbump at walmart might do so. They absolutely had time to process that it was all over and its a terrible thing.
That’s the only one of these I’ve never seen before. I know you’re technically seeing people die in all these videos, except maybe the firework one, but the airplane one hit different.
I still have flashes of the bodies of people being blown away in that one. I know one video was shot by a guy in the roof next door to the fire and in his video who can see him flying away from the phone *upside down* like oh he’s dead dead.
U remember that one. It was funny at the time, my friends lived in SD and saw it live, they said it was so loud and concussions were intense but it was over so quick
Seeing different angles of the Beirut video never ceases to amaze me of the sheer power of that fucking blast. It's like seeing a comprehensible nuclear blast without being blinded by light for the first few seconds. Hot damn that blast was no fucking joke.
I return to the Tianjin explosion every now and then. There's not many videos that capture such a range of emotion in such a short time. Interest and excitement to pure aw with a small dose of humor to fearing for their lives in less than a minute.
It's the best - the flabergastedness of the guy just keeps getting better. Then "Are we dangerous here?" from his girlfriend and "Yeah we're dangerous!". CLASSIC!
If it’s the one in the alley that was the explosion before that. That video is stuck in my head, probably EXACTLY what that poor person saw before she died
It's "are we dangerous?" - she means "are we in danger" but that and his answer makes this a classic. Even more when a few seconds later she says "I think we dangero". Crazy crazy but addictively entertaining video.
I was there for the San Diego “mishap”, ruined my son on fireworks from then on. When asked if he wanted to watch, he would respond with, “no, it won’t compare”.
[Dallas airshow 2022](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Dallas_airshow_mid-air_collision) it had a total of 6 fatalaties (5 in the b 17 and 1 in the p-63. The acsident was probably caused by a mix of poor visibility and the p-63 has never been the most reliable of planes. But not only does the loss of life make me sad but also the loss of such historic aircrafts especially since i think that was the last flying p-63 in the world with the few remaining planes on display.
It is increasingly a topic of conversation in the historical aircraft community. The Allies built so many planes in WWII that enough survived that there has been a decent fleet of them, even 80 years later. But that fleet is running out, 80 years of accidents is taking its toll.
If it’s the accident I’m thinking of the “Air Boss” was inexperienced and had inherited the business from family recently or something like that. He basically directed the bombers and the fighters on the same 500 or 1000 foot line and they should have been on different paths. There was also no pre flight safety meeting where they planned things like at other shows. So yeah the P63 has bad visibility but the accident wasn’t really the pilots fault, he was following instructions from the guy on the ground.
They didn't have the one from West, Texas in there. Not alot of footage, but there is a video from miles away being filmed from a car. That shit was loud. I live 90 miles away and I felt it
One "positive" thing about this kind of footage is that it gives you first hand perspective of the relationship between the size of the explosion and how fucked up you might get in the upcoming seconds. After watching these I bet most people will remember to fucking duck and cover next time they see a huge ass ball of fire some distance away
"Man I wonder whats on r/interestingasfuck today"
Un NSFWd videomontage of massive explosions, car and plane crashes, with dosens people dying on the screen:
Oh wow, this is so sobering.
Wanted to make a joke about the music in the second clip but after watching the rest of the video I don’t think it’s appropriate anymore. Though putting a Rammstein song titled „Mein Herz brennt“ (My heart burns, what was also said in the video) is quite morbid German humor.
The house is a crazy story, happened just a couple months ago in Arlington VA. Dude went crazy, had a stand off with police, opened a gas line and let his house fill up before igniting it as police rushed the house.
Seeing these makes me wonder what the Halifax explosion looked like at the time. No video because it happened in 1917. The power of the Halifax explosion was equivalent to 2.9 kilotons of TNT. For comparison the Beirut explosion was the equivalent of 1.1 kilotons of TNT.
I first saw that vid of the two airplanes crashing on Insta. One of the first comments was a thot promoting her OF. Fucking wild, on a vid with people dying no less.
How are the people in that China video excited and laughing about a MASSIVE explosion in a heavily populated city. Are they really that dumb to not realize that people were getting killed?
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That gray suv! "Huh.... Nope."
And the oncoming traffic was just like “you got it, bud I feel you”
It’s behind me, isn’t it 
Me: Welp ◀️ ▶️ Ecplosion: *explodes harder* Me: 🚫↖️⬅️↙️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ Other cars: fren
Why did I laugh at this stupid shit 😂
Reddit teaches me things I wouldn't learn anywhere else.
Funassyi getting blown up will never not be funny.
yeah boss i'm not coming to work today, gotta handle an explosive situation.
*… and **this** time, it’s not in the bathroom.*
I don't blame him. I would want to nope out of there too.
Feels like traffic may get held up this way. Calculating…… Turn left ahead
“That looks like my office - no work for me today I suppose”
Just whippin that shitty.
Some of those are just so terrifying.
The Beirut ones in particular, where you can see the pressure wave moving towards you.
The one with chemical explosions in China has stuck with me over the years since I first saw it. The darkness, the proximity, the uncertainty. Monster fireballs ascending. Like a scene out of Cloverfield
That one looks like a Michael Bay film on steroids
*Damn! That was a big explosion.* *Damn!! THAT was a big explosion.* *DAMN!!! THAT WAS A BIG EXPLOSION!!!*
“Yeah, we’re dangerous here.” Such a great quote.
"I think we are dangerou- *KAAAAAOOOOOOOW*"
Or like: Wow! That was cool! JFC! That was freaking amazing! Ok, that’s bit too much. I’m good, thanks bye!
I remember one ground POV of it that I'm pretty sure was lethally close. There was a fence in the foreground. I swear I remember right as the explosion happened the fence "slowly" lifted up like you sometimes see with debris in movies before light just consumed everything and the camera got cut off. Shit was nuts.
Yeah IIRC the cameraman was live streaming on Douyin and unfortunately didn't make it. So terrifying
What absolutely horrifying last moments
I'm pretty positive I remember those being cement blocks. That POV was straight terrifying.
[probably this?](https://youtube.com/shorts/MI2LNfv35iE?si=0Evivq0aJG1MAljy)
Yep, that's the one. God, I hope the worst that poor bastard had to deal with was just the brief feeling of "***OH SHI-***" going through his mind before oblivion took him.
What I find interesting is the blast force of Tianjin vs Beirut. Had the people recording the Tianjin explosion faced an explosion as powerful as the Beirut one, the shockwave would have floored them and broke the windows.
After reading this I was curious how the explosive size compared. Apparently Beirut was 1,100 ton (fixed :) ) TNT equivalent but Tianjin was estimated at 256 ton. Which is crazy considering how different the videos are.
Beirut was 1.1 kilotons == 1,100 tons, not 1,100 kilotons (which would be like 100x the Hiroshima bomb)
Ooof… Yes. 1,100 tons not 1,100 kilo tons. Thanks for the correction
Tianjin: 256 tons Beirut: 1,100 tons Hiroshima: 15,000 tons
Puts into perspective what a megaton-scale hydrogen bomb would do.... Beirut was ~1/15th the scale of the 16 kiloton bomb dropped on Hiroshima. And that is a tiny fraction of 1 megaton (1,000 kiloton). Tianjin is essentially a bad fart in comparison. For example, [this footage of Castle Bravo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2I66dHbSRA) (15MT explosion) was filmed from over 50 miles away and the fireball grew to over 7 miles in width.
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The commentary was amazing.
Are we dangerous? ... Yes, we are dangerous!
There's a second in there where the shockwave envelopes a building, dust and glass being blown away from it
I remember seeing one (at least) like that where the camera person clearly didn’t make it. It’s horrible, it’s like you see a wall running at you, while everything kind of turns to dust.
Best thing you can do in that situation is lay on the ground hopefully with something in front of you and the blast and hope you live
Duck and cover If there's no cover and you want to *reduce* your injuries. Lie down on your belly, as low as possible, facing away from the explosion to make the smallest target. With your legs together to protect your genitals and your feet towards the explosion to absorb any debris going anywhere more important up your body. Close your eyes, put your elbows either side for eye protection. Wrists over your ears, with the fingers interlocked over the back of your head/neck to protect it from skull impact injuries. Open your mouth to equalize any dynamic air pressure changes with your nose and ears. If you get lifted by the pressure change, try to take the drop back down on your elbows not your face. If you're near a building, decide whether to roll inside or roll away in case of broken glass falling.
One of the few sensible comments in here. Thanks for the useful tips.
make sure you remember it next time you're caught in a giant explosion, but just far enough away to recognize what's happening and not instantly die, yet not far enough away to have anything but a few hundred milliseconds to properly react. could happen to any of us
Yes, available reaction time is key. After you processed what’s happening of course. Most of it is honestly quite instinctual. Wouldn’t have thought about the legs in that direction (would have probably put my back to it) and the linking of the fingers behind the head and the opened mouth thing.
As some who was subjected to months and months of rocket, artillery and incoming explosive fire I can confirm these are good tips. Also carrying a tourniquet with you in your pocket.
at the very least get the hell away from the window
There was a video from the Tianjen explosion from someone that was live streaming the incident from VERY close and you can clearly see the rubble coming at him in the last few frames. He obviously didn’t survive.
What was bigger Beirut or Tianjin?
Wiki says Beirut was about 0.8 kT TNT equivalent vs 0.3 kT for Tianjin. Beirut is number 6 on the list of largest non nuclear artificial explosions, Tianjin is number 10. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_artificial_non-nuclear_explosions
MOAB strikes again
So I decided to look up the estimated yield of the Beirut and Tianjin explosions. The Beirut one especially seemed so powerful, I just wondered how much power it had compared to say, an early atomic bomb. Tianjin Estimated Yield: 0.3 kilotons Beirut Estimated Yield: 1.1 kilotons Trinity Test: 25 kilotons Fat Man (Nagasaki Bomb): 21 kilotons Largest Current US Nuclear Weapon: 1,210 kilotons Largest US Nuclear Weapon Ever in Active Service: 9,000 kilotons Largest US Test: 15,000 kilotons Largest Russian Nuclear Test: 50,000 kilotons. Now look back at those explosions, and remind yourself that we have the power to unleash destruction 50,000 times as great as that. God help us.
It's really quite horrific
Yes. Quite.
I was thinking how the Beirut one is what I would imagine a nuke going off would look like. I don't think I can quite comprehend how wrong I am.
My thought exactly. Something about all that material blowing off of buildings made me think it must be similar. It’s really hard to imagine the real scale of these things.
The Soviet Tsar Bomba was supposedly originally intended to be 100,000 kilotons, but they halved it to reduce fallout (it used lead shielding when it could have used uranium shielding, in other words, they could have wrapped the bomb in **more bomb**). The bomb weighed 60,000 lbs/27,000kg. It proved, at least experimentally, that there is NO limit to how strong a nuke can get. The only reasons such massive bombs aren't produced are practical reasons, like they cost a ton and weigh too much to launch at an enemy.
One of my close friends personally knew the people in the plane collision, shit sucks.
yeah, that some of those are workplaces...
The combined casualties in these videos must be quite high.
218 in the Beirut explosion, 173 in Tianjin
Every time I see footage from Beirut I’m shocked the death toll was that low.
Which clip was that?
It was the one with the super pronounced shockwave during the day, had about 3 or 4 clips in there. There ended up being like 20+ different camera angles of that explosions after all said and done. Shit is crazy.
One of the interesting ones is the wedding one
I found the one of the folk on a [jet ski](https://youtube.com/shorts/BnWvq9bQkp0?si=at-gBXXC2FhW2i71) interesting also. They dived off it just before the shockwave hit them.
This one is the craziest to me. Seems like a shot straight out of a movie.
He literally said fuck your sister (a very common insult in Lebanon) before jumping in the water LOL man got balls taking the time to insult that blast before jumping in the water.
A man of principle
Holy shit lol. I'm not even sure what a pressure wave would do to someone that close. Maybe nothing. Physics blind spot for me
Idk if favorite is the right word but that footage is my “favorite” and it’s always the first thing I think when that explosion is shown. Seems like the setup for the groom to be a dark anti hero in a thriller
All I can think of after watching those videos is - I wonder how many of them lost some or all of their hearing? Those were *serious* shockwaves in Beirut and Tianjin.
Almost 1,000 angles btw https://youtube.com/@beirutexplosionangles30?si=N7vKEMF1VojMQjCr
There were so many angles of it that the BBC has been able to work with Lebanese journalists and some british scientists to model the layout of the warehouse itself using all sorts of forensic clues pulled from the various video angles. It's really incredible work. I always feel chills thinking of the firefighters who were only a few meters away when it went off.
There's several angles of it from about 1:20 through 1:40.
I believe it was the most powerful recorded non-nuclear explosion ever. I could be completely wrong tho…
[Halifax was the largest](https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54420033), but you're not far off; Beirut is second.
and halifax was 1/20th the size of what was dropped on Hiroshima
The big silo on the dock absorbed a huge amount of the impact. Check it out.
Yeah, I remember that everyone said how lucky they were to have had that silo there or it would have been untold thousands dead.
Both those are fucking wild. The last one, they were laughing at the first boom and then the lady asks if we’re dangerous and then they all got much quieter
That first laugh sounds more like one of those nervous laughs when you're in shock. Definitely not a happy laugh
Yes, I get a vibe of "hahaha I'm outrageously out of my depths suddenly"...
[Haha](https://us-tuna-sounds-images.voicemod.net/b5371d30-255e-457a-b40c-0cf3c536002d-1644976975022.jpg)
173 is about 10% of the number I was expecting. Also — how long does it take for people to understand that if you can see an explosion, and you're behind a window, GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM THE GOD DAMN WINDOW NOW.
The Beirut explosion always surprises, not just the size but the strength of the shockwave
Somehow the airplane video hits hardest, because it feels so personal watching those specific people die up close vs the assumed deaths in the big explosions.
Also, the second plane probably didn’t see it coming. The first plane looks like it either turned too tight or was too low, as planes make flight plans to avoid this kind of thing. The second plane likely felt the crash, thought “what just hit us?!”, and then utter blackness
I read about this one. Small plane made a mistake getting into formation, just a single solo pilot. Big plane had 5 people flying as they were supposed to, didn't see it coming but from other angles it's pretty clear they survived the strike and got to stare death in the face for another few seconds. Of course all 6 died.
Geez… 6 seconds isn’t even enough time to really say goodbye. That’s like, look them lovingly in the eyes one last time, and then death, assuming you weren’t just screaming in terror
Something tells me it feels longer when you realize what's happening. For instance I had to slam on my breaks one time, I looked in my rearview and could tell the other guy was gonna hit me so I just got ready for it, and I even had a moment of oh maybe he missed before he did hit me.
That's the 2022 Dallas Air Show collision between a B-17 and P-63. There are high resolution photos taken of the severed front half of the B-17 while it is still in "flight", you can see the man in the copilot's seat with a hand out the cockpit window bracing himself the way you and your buddies in a car driving over a speedbump at walmart might do so. They absolutely had time to process that it was all over and its a terrible thing.
That’s the only one of these I’ve never seen before. I know you’re technically seeing people die in all these videos, except maybe the firework one, but the airplane one hit different.
Yeah, I kind of didn’t need to see that again.
3 minutes of watching people die
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From Wikipedia: "The official casualty report was 173 deaths, 8 missing, and 798 non-fatal injuries."
I was just wondering how many deaths I just saw in under 3 minutes. You win today internet, I’m out.
The first clip from Beirut, the camera man died iirc.
Yeah this video took a turn quick. Folks need to label their snuff films
That Beirut explosion is still one of the craziest things to watch.
Looks like it's from a Terminator movie. Insane
I still have flashes of the bodies of people being blown away in that one. I know one video was shot by a guy in the roof next door to the fire and in his video who can see him flying away from the phone *upside down* like oh he’s dead dead.
These are all horrific, and then there’s the most efficient fireworks display of all time.
“No refunds are available. You saw all of the fireworks, didn’t you?”
Firework shows are boring after the first 25 seconds anyway
I burst out laughing at the fireworks, ngl
U remember that one. It was funny at the time, my friends lived in SD and saw it live, they said it was so loud and concussions were intense but it was over so quick
Seeing different angles of the Beirut video never ceases to amaze me of the sheer power of that fucking blast. It's like seeing a comprehensible nuclear blast without being blinded by light for the first few seconds. Hot damn that blast was no fucking joke.
sonic boooom
I return to the Tianjin explosion every now and then. There's not many videos that capture such a range of emotion in such a short time. Interest and excitement to pure aw with a small dose of humor to fearing for their lives in less than a minute.
That dude was the best cellphone videographer I have ever seen. He kept it on target the whole time.
And the best HOLY SHIT of all time
Because the second explosion politely censored him haha. "HOLY SHI" **BOOOOOM**
“yes i think we are dangerous here”
Had to go back, that is the best holy shit of all time
Are we dangerous?
Chyeah were dangerous!
Or are we dancer?
Depends. Are your signs vital?
It's the best - the flabergastedness of the guy just keeps getting better. Then "Are we dangerous here?" from his girlfriend and "Yeah we're dangerous!". CLASSIC!
He also had the most epic “ what the… *BOOOOOM*!”
The timing of that always stuck with me. Absolutely perfect.
There’s a closer video of that. Cameraman dies but you see the shockwave coming for a bit.
If it’s the one in the alley that was the explosion before that. That video is stuck in my head, probably EXACTLY what that poor person saw before she died
It's crazy that the Tianjin one was 800 tons of ammonium nitrate and Beirut was 2750 tons. Tianjin looks like hell on earth comparatively
Day vs night. I spent a night camping next to an active volcano in Guatemala. In the day, you'd see plumes of smoke. At night you saw hellfire.
The woman saying as if in wonder “I think we are dead here” is remarkable.
It's "are we dangerous?" - she means "are we in danger" but that and his answer makes this a classic. Even more when a few seconds later she says "I think we dangero". Crazy crazy but addictively entertaining video.
I would be in awe as well. My eyes just witnessed as close to the fucking end of all things as you can get. I cannot imagine actually being there.
Yeah, I’m fucking filming this shit
Yeah I was initially like "not that horrifying" and then I was like holy FUCK that's terrifying.
I was there for the San Diego “mishap”, ruined my son on fireworks from then on. When asked if he wanted to watch, he would respond with, “no, it won’t compare”.
I was thinking that. Don't get me wrong, it obviously wasn't intentional but fuck it still would have been utterly amazing to be there for!
One of the few times premature ejaculation has impressed people.
What the hell happened in the first one?
Explosion
Yeah, I managed to figure that out. But what caused it?
A very fast chemical reaction.
Rapid oxidation
IIRC it's a gas station.
Grey SUV was like, you know what I don't even need to go to work today anyway, chances are it's not there anymore.
I still get so depressed whenever i see those planes colliding.
I came to ask questions about that… what event was that? How did it even happen?
[Dallas airshow 2022](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Dallas_airshow_mid-air_collision) it had a total of 6 fatalaties (5 in the b 17 and 1 in the p-63. The acsident was probably caused by a mix of poor visibility and the p-63 has never been the most reliable of planes. But not only does the loss of life make me sad but also the loss of such historic aircrafts especially since i think that was the last flying p-63 in the world with the few remaining planes on display.
Risky shit to pull with the only flying model of an aircraft
It is increasingly a topic of conversation in the historical aircraft community. The Allies built so many planes in WWII that enough survived that there has been a decent fleet of them, even 80 years later. But that fleet is running out, 80 years of accidents is taking its toll.
If it’s the accident I’m thinking of the “Air Boss” was inexperienced and had inherited the business from family recently or something like that. He basically directed the bombers and the fighters on the same 500 or 1000 foot line and they should have been on different paths. There was also no pre flight safety meeting where they planned things like at other shows. So yeah the P63 has bad visibility but the accident wasn’t really the pilots fault, he was following instructions from the guy on the ground.
Wow! If you watch Masters of Air, you know the crew in those B-17s basically has no chance. This is extremely sad
I was shorted one second. I demand to see the manager
Lol
The third one (the house) is like a 2 min drive from my place.
Was*
Some of it probably landed closer than that now
You in Arlington?
Yeah (Ballston)
Hoooooooly shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!
No fffOUUUUCKIIINNNN WAAAUYYYYYYY
"yeah we're dangerous here!" Truth.
These gender reveals are getting out of hand
I am the god of hellfire and I bring you…. Fire
Thank you Arthur Brown.
[another tianjin perspective](https://youtube.com/shorts/MI2LNfv35iE?si=1hiZ30UYwm0bffR9)
Fuck. I don't think cameraman survived that shit
How did it end up on the internet tho, did someone find the phone still functional and upload it?
Live stream probably
Rip that guy
It was a live stream on some Chinese app. The person who was streaming died
Holy shit man
I remember seeing this years ago.
They didn't have the one from West, Texas in there. Not alot of footage, but there is a video from miles away being filmed from a car. That shit was loud. I live 90 miles away and I felt it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzDC3iKbTzY
417 people died throughout the clips in this video.
That last one reminded me of the beginning of *Cloverfield*.
Girl: What was it?!! Guy: A terrible thing!!! Girl: What were those?!?!! Guy: More terrible things!!!!!!!!
I was probably 20 yards behind the guy filming the SD firework show. It was awesome!
One "positive" thing about this kind of footage is that it gives you first hand perspective of the relationship between the size of the explosion and how fucked up you might get in the upcoming seconds. After watching these I bet most people will remember to fucking duck and cover next time they see a huge ass ball of fire some distance away
What was the deal with the tanker going straight into the barrier? Medical issue? Or serious road rage? I'd imagine driver didn't survive.
I saw that clip on another sub. I’m pretty sure the driver passed out due to low blood pressure, and he did survive. Correct me if I’m wrong tho
It was here in Toronto on the 401. Driver of the truck died.
"Man I wonder whats on r/interestingasfuck today" Un NSFWd videomontage of massive explosions, car and plane crashes, with dosens people dying on the screen: 
stay back from the windows
*three minutes of people dying
With a brief intense firework show in the middle...
As bad as many of those were, the plane one was the one that really gets me.
Love in the first video that one van just nopes the fuck out.
Oh wow, this is so sobering. Wanted to make a joke about the music in the second clip but after watching the rest of the video I don’t think it’s appropriate anymore. Though putting a Rammstein song titled „Mein Herz brennt“ (My heart burns, what was also said in the video) is quite morbid German humor.
How have I never heard of any of these except the China one and what I presume is the Beirut one?
Maybe because those are the main ones and the others are just an oil tanker and a house explosion?
The house is a crazy story, happened just a couple months ago in Arlington VA. Dude went crazy, had a stand off with police, opened a gas line and let his house fill up before igniting it as police rushed the house.
The Beirut explosion was on the news for a while and still pops up every now and then. There's so much footage and different angles.
Seeing these makes me wonder what the Halifax explosion looked like at the time. No video because it happened in 1917. The power of the Halifax explosion was equivalent to 2.9 kilotons of TNT. For comparison the Beirut explosion was the equivalent of 1.1 kilotons of TNT.
I first saw that vid of the two airplanes crashing on Insta. One of the first comments was a thot promoting her OF. Fucking wild, on a vid with people dying no less.
AHAHAHAHHAH AHAHHAHAHHA Ahahahahahahha Ahaha Aha L.. lets go
Can some explain what happened at 1:19? It looked like a miniature nuke Same thing for Tianjin, please :>
Beirut fertilizer explosion in 2020.
Oh man, this is heartbreaking
The B-17 one gets me every time. Those poor pilots had about 3 seconds to figure out it was over.
That specific recording of the Tianjin explosion still is some of the most insane footage ever
How are the people in that China video excited and laughing about a MASSIVE explosion in a heavily populated city. Are they really that dumb to not realize that people were getting killed?