Nothing on the Beeb. Nothing on Russia Today. But this looks alarmingly familiar to my unmilitary eye.
http://english.pravda.ru/news/hotspots/29-05-2015/130785-nuclear-0/
Update: Jakub Jankowski tells me it may be a pile of ammunition going up. He provides this for comparison:
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I can’t claim any great expertise, but Jankowski’s idea strikes me as plausible, as does a fuel/air bomb. Nothing about it looks nuclear.
Unlike any other conventional detonation I’ve previously seen. Noise also sounded like a nuclear device – but I’ve not heard the latest, most destructive bunker-busters exploding, so I can offer no informed opinion whatsoever.
Criminally awful sound though. Just hope that innocent people were not living or working in the vicinity.
Welcome to the 21st century my friends. Pray that it will not prove to be the bloodiest of all.
Ammo dump going up. Probably mostly burning propellant – rockets?
Definitely not a nuke. All much too slow-motion for that – and far too dim and orange.
No, that isn’t a nuke.
Oh, well. But it perked up my Sunday no end while the frisson lasted.
Sort of “nuclear frisson” then?
Ho ho!
However, glad the monitor is working again.
I’m now lapsing into a state of mourning, to be honest, for a beautiful 22″ Samsung that I took to the tip a while back as “beyond economic repair” since I couldn’t find anyone to fix it for a reasonable price and was too scared to open it up myself. Having crossed that bridge with this one, I’m now pretty certain it would have been very easily repaired. I should have had a go. Best monitor I ever had, stunning picture on it.
It’s much harder to repair electronic gizmos made after about 1990 than you think – specially if they are the mass-produced types that then became things like computer monitors and so on. Or tellies for that matter.
Give an electronic engineer a telly made in, say, the late 1940s to the late 70s or even 80s, and it could be repaired more or less on a kitchen table, if you had the little bitty bits and the circuit diagram. Getting a bit hard by 1980, but still do-able.
When did anyone last try, seriously – rather than merely showing off to no purpose – try to fix anything on a PC’s system board?
Furthermore, if you even dared to even think your own very, very private, Jesuitical-type[1] thoughts of trying that on anything called “Apple” – Tim Cook would sue you in the US Courts….Nay! Steve Jobs would initiate an action from beyond the grave!
[1] (One of // The Three Things that _God_ Doesn’t Actually Know // … is “what any one single Jesuit, sampled at random, is really thinking”…)
Well, true, but not so much in this case. This is a Sony and one of the last CRT models they produced; but nonetheless quite fixable since most of the components, being high current and voltage, are Old Skool capacitors, transistors etc that you can replace easily. The HT circuits in particular remained surprisingly simple. As I now realise.
I really, really hated binning that Samsung, and now I feel bad about doing so all over again. Bah.
Best PC monitor I ever used was a 17″ “Lucky Goldstar” (made in Korea) and bought about 1998 in London. It stayed in London when we moved, sadly. I bequeathed it to the business I founded in 1986, survived a fair recession with plus one or two faithless turncoat “partners”, and then left in disgust in 2001, in my car, to go North, after “some miscellaneous betrayals”.
This planet still holds three and a half living people who, if I can in what’s left of my lifetime utterly-ruin any (or ideally all) of them, then I will.
My happiness in my last years will be augmented by un-priceable amounts, at their misfortune. (No, I will never say who they are, under any conditions.)
But none of that, Ian, was the fault of the monitor!
(Ammo dump. The Saudi’s have been systematically taking them out. If anyone had dropped a nuke it would be on every news outlet in the world and the source of twelve months of endless news nonsense.)
Big-looking explosion but I don’t think it was a nuke. If it was, the flash would have been much whiter/bluer and brighter, ever for something like a 1kT/2kT “battlefield weapon” (I expect lots of people have got lots of these by now, very cheap and able to be cheaply replaced before their “drop-by-date”), plus a large blast wave even with that. If it was a real nuke, the commenting filmers would have fallen over really badly.
It’s just two different lots of fascist pre-capitalist-barbarian-scumbags, trying to obliterate each other.
Welcome back to hunter-gathererism; what the GreeNazis and socialistNazis have been preparing for you – and your descendents, and on purpose – since rather well before 1884….
Very small nuke. A few tons.