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by lm28469 2150 days ago
> I am seeing other analyses that put the size of the explosion at about one tenth of this size.

Random twitter users are guesstimating from smartphones videos and have 0 knowledge of the actual location, so yeah, it's just guesstimates. I'm still wondering why people do that, it's kind of a weird flex and bring literally nothing of value to the table besides trying to sound like a smartass.

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Some of those are involved in the OSINT community where they do this as their day job, because analysing random strange explosions can sometimes tell you things about military weapons development programs that aren't otherwise advertised.