https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/10/move-1985-bombing-reconciliation-philadelphia

Yes or a surface to surface bomb

The original quote was on the weight of fireworks.

How did only 45 pounds do that much damage? I set off more than 45 pounds of fireworks most fourths of July.

When your police force is actual terrorists and gets away with it scott-free

Resorting to a personal attack, which is also just misguided (which chem BS teaches about explosive TNT equivalent measurements lol?) and linking Wikipedia instead of an actual source relevant to the situation at hand. Instead of being constructive you're just trying to inflate your own ego.

I suggest going and reading the (more relevant) LAPD 27th St After Action Report, LAPD 716 E. 27th Street AAR, and ATF Final TCV Report on the incident, which I did prior to commenting.

Defending or defunding?

Did you get your Chem BS from the university of phoenix?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT_equivalent

Ahahaha he blocked me - every redditors favorite way to win an argument

I’ll always miss you /u/thechemistastronaut

Laughs in Philadelphian. Look up the move bombing.

No, they're telling you that the explosive force is the same in both cases. '45 lbs' is a description of the force, not the weight of the bomb/fireworks.

Air to ground bomb huh?

As opposed, for instance, to

A ground to air bomb?

But the chemistry does, lol

Different stuff explodes with different energy. You're telling me however many tons of fertilizer bomb would explode the same as the same amount of fireworks?

True, they still are telling a story.

I guess I'm the one who is out of touch. 😞

if watching the US Chemical Safety Board accident reports on YouTube has taught me anything, it's that there isnt a recognized method of safely disposing of excess fireworks.

I look forward to the report in a couple of years.

I think it suffices. It'd be silly to disqualify it as it is now, but to consider it a documentary if a narrator mentioned some blatantly obvious things throughout the footage.

Granted they could have just called it 'news footage montage' and it'd be a clearer description (but less impressive).

I think that's overcomplicating it. A regular person would generally assume a fancy bomb disposal truck like that would easily be able to handle 'a bunch of fireworks'. I reckon these officers had the same mindset, even though they're supposed to know what they're doing.

It's not obvious they didn't transport it because they thought it was unsafe to do so. The more obvious explanation is that they thought it'd be harmless, which is why they also endangered themselves along with everyone else.

Did u provide any sources or just spread more misinformation

I love the officers with the Arson investigation jackets on.

“This might not be the bomb disposal officer’s royally fucking up. We might need to look into a sinister act here even though every first responder for a square mile and 911 operators would have know in advance what was going to happen at that exact time when the countdown hit zero.

I have been in arson investigation for 20 years, something else is going on here, I can just feel it in my bones.”

'Murica!

The placebo effect can be really powerful.

My true hero, thank you.

Don't want to diminish what the people who worked on this did but is editing newsclips with zero narration really a documentary?

Tonight at 8

https://www.turnto23.com/news/state/aftermath-of-illegal-firework-explosion-in-los-angeles
AMP link was butchering the site even more than it normally does, forced mobile display on desktop wtf xD

And what does that have to do with the amount of perchlorate and paper wrapped around a Roman candle.