Halifx Explosion

[bobusboy]

"Halifx Explosion " brought to you by linkin park.

IMO Heritage Canada should re air those old ads.

[Wayneman117]

Soooo.....theres a movie about this?

[bobusboy]

@Wayneman117

no....its one of many accidents that happened during the rise of Canada's military (industrial complex) in the early 1900's This one just happened to be devastating.

[HoZzIe27]

YOU DID THIS?!

[HoZzIe27]

YOU DID THIS?!

[Downfacingdog]

Thank you, Boston.

[Downfacingdog]

This accident was the start of the United church of Canada.

[bobusboy]

@Downfacingdog

WTF...

[10royals10]

i like how it says heavily damaged. when its all flatened

[ReJ40]

If you go to Halifax, when you reach the area, all the trees that survived the blast were bent collectively in the same direction. All the tops of the old trees are flat and pointing out from the city. That is huge and unreal.

[ElevenPromises]

As a Nova Scotian and am only 16 years old, I'd still like to say thanks to all the countries far and wide for helping us on this devastating event.

[KaTzaNdSTuFf]

Actually, the largest man made explosion was the Tsar Bomba. Halifax was the largest accidentaly man made explosion.

[MrComatost]

@KaTzaNdSTuFf ummm no...the Hfx explosion is the largest, man-made NON-ATOMIC explosion in the world. Tsar Bomba was a hydrogen bomb.

[KaTzaNdSTuFf]

@MrComatost Ah. Non atomic.

[73steve1973]

I like the minute of silence offered.

[immabored1]

i wrote a 3 pages on this.When i was 7......Only help? the internet

[TheReal69er]

@immabored1 you probably failed then..... never trust the internet

[newfiecharmz]

ya i am really disappointed in what is taught in schools these days....they teach us world history, which yes is important but we must first learn about our own history

[AprilTheGhost1]

aww how sad how come hey dont teach about this in schools I never knew this happend hmmm this would'a been a great piece of history to know about...

[SoniaIsAwesome]

@VenomGenocide Where did the tree come from this year? It's normally the Valley isn't it? 

[bobusboy]

@AprilTheGhost1

I learned this in grade school; that said I did live in Nova Scotia.

[mcstalker12]

i live in halifax :) This explotion was the biggest to ever happen in history before nukes where invented.

[zildjian5545]

@mcstalker12 A little late on the response but what about the Tunguska event? It wasn't caused by tnt (as far as we know) the exact cause is unknown but the best guess would be an air burst from a meteroid or a comet, but the explosion was estimated at about 10-15 megatons. This occurred in 1908

[weelee021]

@zildjian5545 to help clarify...the largest "man made" exposion...