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This is incredible and I can only imagine how much time this took to create. Definitely also worth taking a look at their previous investigations at https://forensic-architecture.org/ .
How did I not know about this before! :)
Bye-bye to getting any work done for the rest of the day!
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/05/beirut-blast-traci...
Here is an article about the history of ammonium nitrate:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/08/deadly-hi...
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This website (and organisation) is fascinating. There are other excellent videos on the site, for example:
https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/the-killing-...
> Mr Collett contended that from an engineering perspective, the arrangement of goods within the building was the spatial layout of a makeshift bomb on the scale of a warehouse, awaiting detonation.
This is incredible and I can only imagine how much time this took to create. Definitely also worth taking a look at their previous investigations at https://forensic-architecture.org/ .
Agreed - this is great and deeply fascinating to me. How did I not know about this before! :) Bye-bye to getting any work done for the rest of the day!
I do start to wonder if any of such materials are stored like this in one of our ports, such as Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
I can't imagine such a mess to exist there.
But The Netherlands remembers the Firework explosion in Enschede, from 2000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enschede_fireworks_disaster
It's not nearly at the scale of Beirut, but it killed 23 people.