#Shockwave

This happened in #Beirut.Wanna see the power of a shockwave from an explosion?Watch till the end. In this clip, we can see the shockwave from the same explosion spreading over

To all you missile “experts” talking about how “this wasn’t a nuke it’s a MOAB” blah blah blah. From an engineer who works on these things— it may very well

I think the "Duck and Cover" advice given to schoolchildren in the 1950s is often wrongly mocked because of a misunderstanding about who exactly it was aimed at. And I

Cab Davidson #FBPE

So... Nitram. Ammonium nitrate. Nasty stuff when it goes bang. And 2,750 tonnes just went bang. It's a big number. It's hard to take in. Some context... (1) If it's

⛩️Cysh (キシュ)⛩️

Imagine just sitting at home completely minding your own business.Then all of a sudden you feel kind of a tremble and the water in your glass is plopping and shaking.

Let me tell you a short story about how much a physicist can learn using dimensional analysis and a few pictures of an atom bomb detonation.https://twitter.com/mcnees/status/1283765045395173379 During WWII a British

1.09/01/2020 - Ricky Gervais wearing shades with dogs: "We'll all be dead soon. Forever" + emoji with shades? https://twitter.com/rickygervais/status/1300788927822016517So now.... what to make of this one? 2.For context on Ger

Brilliant first draft of world economic history from @adam_tooze in the London Review of Books1/xhttps://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n08/adam-tooze/shockwave But since it is a first draft, I do want to push back on one

Stephen Schwartz

OTD in 1961, the Soviet Union tested the largest-ever thermonuclear bomb—a 50-Mt RDS-220 (originally designed for 100 Mt). The device, later dubbed "Tsar Bomba" in the West, was dropped by

👾 Justin Cowart 👾

A fresh crater in Mars' Tharsis region, imaged by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's CTX and CRISM cameras on January 13, 2007. The crater measures ~100 m in diameter, but a halo

6 yrs working of with Indian kidlit means I have tons of books sitting around in home. Some books I have multiple copies.Giving away a few for free. Chennai, dunzo/swiggy

megsylhydrazine

An incredible look into the supersonic flight and impact of a baseball, by @smartereveryday and team!Also, did anyone else catch that pre-impact flame? I did too!https://twitter.com/smartereveryday/status/1326906621189099524 If you watch cl

A few things; none good.https://twitter.com/nafisehkBBC/status/1290669987791867906 A few useful frames. (From here: https://twitter.com/romyjournalist/status/1290671518154985472) 2. 3. 4. Looks like a fire before the explosion, followed by

Great imagery of sabot petal separation after leaving barrel, here on one of Denmark's new Leopard 2A7DNK. Taken from this cracking video with lovely slow-mo of this firing @ 2m10s

astrotweeps: Emily (@emsque)

Today my astronomy cross stitch is a special one- Figure 1 from my paper on radio observations of SN 1987A!Don’t believe me? Here’s the paper if you want to compare:

Stephen Schwartz

This morning in 1963, as 3 workers were moving partially-disassembled high-explosive assemblies into storage igloo 572 at the Medina Modification Center near San Antonio, Texas (one of six original AEC