MABB v6.6.6

 
https://twitter.com/reportedly/status/631514713126375424
 
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-12/caught-tape-mushroom-clud-forms-after-massive-explosion-rocks-chinese-port-city

why are you laughing that's some serious business

https://nationalpostcom.files.wordpress ... ion-11.jpg
Smoke billows behind rows of burnt out Volkswagen cars at the site of a series of explosions in Tianjin, northern China on Aug. 13, 2015.

"Massive explosions have hit China's northern city of Tianjin, leaving at least 17 people dead and hundreds more injured."
 
 
the death toll may have risen since this, but you would expect a lot more dead with explosions so large

The chinese authorities are liars

i wonder what combusted

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why are you laughing that's some serious business
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you're damn right it's serious!
 
so serious that the chinese gov gave no shits about the safety of it's workers and had very lax regulation regarding hazardous material!
 
why, imposing such restrictions would have affected the bottom line!

that is a poor reason for laughter

Forget it, Jake; it's China.

also, do we know exactly what happened yet

poor safety standards is broadly attributable

i believe that particular facility specialized in the storage and shipment of hazardous materials

*are

So just how 'big' is that explosion? Is that equivalent to something like a stealth bomber run or a small tactical nuke?

Early reports suggested that hundreds of people were injured in the blasts, which were felt several kilometers away. The blasts registered as magnitude 2.3 and 2.9 earthquakes on the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment_magnitude_scale' title="Moment magnitude scale">moment magnitude scale</a>, with the resulting fireballs reaching hundreds of meters high.^{<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Tian ... uardian-11][11][/url][12]} The [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Ear ... rks_Center' title="China Earthquake Networks Center">China Earthquake Networks Center</a> reported the first and second blasts were equivalent to 3 and 21 tonnes of <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT_equivalent' title="TNT equivalent">TNT</a>, respectively.^{<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Tian ... note-BBC-5][5][/url]}
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Tianjin_explosions#Explosions

They must be out of smores by now, you'd think.

I think they're severely underreporting the death toll. 

I can't imagine seeing that bigger blast from some of those camera distances and not thinking "fuck. nuke. I'm dead."

best video yet:
 
http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2015/aug/14/eyewitness-tianjin-china-chemical-explosion-vide

That first blast looks impressive in itself

Boom!

"Holy Crap!  Wow!  Look at that!"


BOOM!

"Whoah! Oh No!"

BOOM!!!

"FUCKING RUUUUNN!"

That was the best video of it I've seen so far. 

Tianjin explosions: New fires burn at site
 
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-34014314

this was fucking nuts

Tianjin explosion is why you should always wear hi-vis

The thing about Chinese chemical factory explosions is, after you have one, you're just going to want another one 19 days later.
 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3217471/Huge-blast-rips-Chinese-city-chemical-factory-explosion.html

i wonder if this is just the 20th century equivalent of the triangle shirtwaist factory fire and such

Now I'm going to have that Rasputina song stuck in my head all night.
 
 
That's a really nice comparison, Dutnis.

i thought that that happened in the 1880s, for some reason now i know it didn't

a US guest is lolling at china

good.