[icehole]

that one running in an apron was epic
like in action movie

[quetza]

sad to see that kid running away in terror like that. they should be living happy-go-lucky, playing soccer and going to school....alas, the world is cruel though

[pervM]

Originally Posted by RiversEdge ↗

you think, that eventually; they would run out of suicidal plotters.

Recruit from the poor, uneducated and desperate and brainwash them with religious dogma, you get suicide bombers.

[n2ecosystems]

Originally Posted by Paradise19 ↗

I would also like to know why the person fell down. I know the answer would seem obvious but I would like to know the mechanics. Full of shrapnel? In shock? The person doesn’t appear to be on fire. Just wondered why exactly they fell from a standing position after the blast.

Explosives that size send out a shock wave a very powerful one.

[BigSnail34]

Originally Posted by Paradise19 ↗

I would also like to know why the person fell down. I know the answer would seem obvious but I would like to know the mechanics. Full of shrapnel? In shock? The person doesn’t appear to be on fire. Just wondered why exactly they fell from a standing position after the blast.

I'm going to try to explain what happens when you get hit by an explosion, but it's a bit involved:

When a bomb like this goes off, it causes a blast wave, which is a sphere of compressed, rapidly expanding gases that displace the surrounding air at extraordinarily high velocities. The blast wave is followed by shock waves, which carry energy from the explosion through your body like an airborne earthquake.

If the blast wave creates overpressure of more than 550 kPa - about 80 psi - it is potentially lethal because it and the subsequent shockwaves that follow closely behind it cause multiple harmful physical phenomena above that threshold.

High frequency, low amplitude shockwaves cause damage to organs where gases meet solids and liquids, for instance, in the blood-air interface of the lungs, or in the intestines where gases are produced during digestion. This happens because the shockwaves force millions of highly compressed gas bubbles into the denser materials, and then when the waves pass, the gas bubbles expand to normal size and "pop", displacing blood and body tissues.

At the same time, low frequency, high amplitude shockwaves cause local motions in the body which overcome tissue elasticity and cause tearing in areas of the body where certain different types of tissues meet, most notably between the gray and white matter of the brain, and throughout the peripheral nervous system.

So, basically, shockwaves blow up your guts and tear apart your brain and nerves. Notably, being near solid structures can cause shockwaves to reflect and pass through your body several times. This is probably what happened to the victim in question.

The shockwaves are followed by fragmentation which releases shrapnel, as well as fire and immense heat. A person too close to a bomb will be dead before the shrapnel and heat reach them, but shrapnel can inflict fatal injuries on victims far outside the fatal shockwave zone.

I won't go into how shrapnel hurts you, because you know how shrapnel works, I'm sure.

Hope that elucidates things a bit.

[AlvinKarpis]

Fuck ISIS

Fucking cowards, killing innocent people

[cannonreload]

Originally Posted by bigsnail34 ↗

I won't go into how shrapnel hurts you, because you know how shrapnel works, I'm sure.

Hope that elucidates things a bit.

you're damn right it does!
thanks