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Giant crater from a rocket strike, reportedly on a saltpeter storage area. (streamable.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] Dressedlikeapenguin 6 points 1 year ago

WOW! https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/courses/13things/7687.html#:~:text=%E2%80%9CGunpowder%2C%E2%80%9D%20as%20it%20came,and%20explode%20as%20a%20propellant.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, that's a big boom. Saltpeter does not explode on it's own, FYI, so if that's true this was just a giant warhead.

[–] Relo 3 points 1 year ago

"On days like these I curse the Chinese for inventing gunpowder"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Really?? that seems like WAY too big of a crater

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

And way too much algae growth in the water in the bottom for it to have happened recently.