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What is this thing?

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There was a huge explosion yesterday in Tennessee at plant that made explosive material for the military and industrial projects. https://www.newsweek.com/tennessee-explosion-update-no-survivors-found-at-volatile-scene-10865405

Video from a news chopper on the scene right after the explosion shows what looks like green almost glowing debris on the ground https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPooHZbDiee/

Any idea what it is?

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[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's such a highly processed video, it honestly might be nothing. Just signal noise digitally amplified over multiple successive image enlargement loops.

If not, it also could be some kind of hi-vis material. The explosion appears to have been far more concussive than combustive, so it doesn't seem to have burned stuff so much as it broke everything apart and flung it around.

I don't think it's due to being highly processed. It was just footage from their chopper.

You can see something similar in these images, and these were some of the earliest reports that the explosion had happened: https://www.facebook.com/ChrisDavisReports/posts/just-horrific-images-coming-out-of-the-mcewenbucksnort-tennessee-area-where-accu/1192854099330048/