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The belly of the dragon will drip water
Dryden
What surprised me was not the side window breaking. It was facing the explosion. But the windshield. That was a surprise!
And remember anons. The windshield is the strongest piece of glass in the car. The fact that it shattered really says a lot! Anon can only imagine the force that the driver felt in their body.
JUST HOW STRONG ARE MODERN WINDSHIELDS?
Have you ever wondered how durable modern windshields can be? It’s quite common to hear stories of windshield destruction during intense car accidents. Many people know of at least one person that collided with a deer and endured a crumbled windshield, but these instances are actually not that common.
Especially in modern times, windshields are now stronger than ever and they can handle some pretty serious impacts. A windshield is not just a single sheet of glass that keeps bugs and wind out of your face when you drive, it actually serves a few different purposes. Just in case you aren’t really educated on the details of your windshield strength, let’s take a deeper look just how strong are windshields in today’s modern automotive industry.
Not Just Any Old Glass
The reason many people underestimate the strength of windshields in general is because glass is thought to be a fragile material. While regular window-pane glass and other weaker types of glass are actually very fragile, your windshield glass is made a bit differently.
Windshields are made of something called tempered glass, which is glass that has undergone a special forming process involving blasts of cold air that make it much stronger than normal. If you’ve ever seen someone hit a windshield with a baseball bat you know that windshields don’t just shatter like window panes, they splinter into tiny bits which clues us in a bit on how strong are windshields in today’s world.
How Strong Are Windshields?
Normally even tempered glass would break and splinter all over the place when hit with something like a baseball bat or another vehicle on the road, but your windshield features an extra layer of defense called “lamination”. If you’ve ever gotten a library card made, you know that laminating basically means to cover something with a layer of plastic, which is exactly what is done to your windshield.
A layer of sticky industrial-strength plastic is sandwiched between two layers of tempered glass which make up your windshield. Thus, we are really able to determine how strong are windshields when they take an impact, because the plastic laminate in the middle keeps the layers of glass stuck together and prevents them from flying all over the place when they are hit directly.
It takes a seriously devastating impact to actually puncture a hole in your windshield. To put it into a scientific comparison that is easier to understand, a single fiber of glass without any flaws actually carries up to 5 times the strength of steel.
https://connectautoglass.com/blog/just-how-strong-are-modern-windshields
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Bird is the Word
Timing is wrong anyway. Too much delay i it were what you say it is. Which it is not. It is a bird.
Not all nukes are created equal anon. The effects that you describe are only achievable when you have a well engineered and efficient nuke that is able to sustain a chain reaction. This one was built by amateurs, not a superpower. The chain reaction falls apart very quickly. Thank God. They probably knew this and that is why they chose to detonate it in the middle of all that nitrate. To ensure a big boom no matter how inefficient their makeshift bomb was. There is no getting past the intial flash for this anon. The video from the water makes it clear. If you look to the left and to the right and realize the area the flash covered, and that it would have to pass through solid objects to illuminate objects on the other side. Normal light does not behave this way. A high energy nuclear chain reaction does however.
That pretty well sums it up anon.No pun intended. Although I doubt it was contained within a vending machine. More likely a shipping crate of some sort. Maybe even one of the nitrate bags. Camouflage. The fires and first small explosion camouflage also. I'm sorry anons. I just can't get past the flash. And I was in the fertilizer camp before I got a good look at it.