Overpressure bombing effects (or why Zarqawi still had a face after the bombing)

http://www.alternatevoice.com/blog_archives/000148.html ^

[calljack]

So that's why you open all your windows when a tornado's coming!!!

[isthisnickcool]

Could someone photoshop a pig nose and ears on to this guy's face?

[American Quilter]

Thanks so much for this post, Dog. I certainly don't know anything about the effect of bomb blasts (except that they're really, really unpleasant) on the human body, and I now have some facts at my disposal.

[Pukin Dog]

Just wait until the big laser comes online.

That is when the real fun will begin.

[GSlob]

"I was actually wondering about why he was still intact in any part of his body"
Well, depends on where in that house he was in relation to the bomb. If the bomb went off a couple walls from him [say, he was in the outhouse], he would be hit and killed by the flying chunks of collapsing walls. If these chunks were large [i.e. relatively few in number], there would have to be significant parts of him left more or less intact. If the bomb went off within few feet of him then it would be another matter.

[SE Mom]

:) Gotta love Anton Brown...

Apparently..per FOX..we had plastic surgeons ON THE SCENE within moments of the strike..to make him presentable..

[Enterprise]

He got up all right! Way up!

[skimask]

So basically dismemberment would come from flying debris or the body hitting something that could cause dismemberment, correct?

[Pukin Dog]

Well, considering that he had the physical consistency of a jelly roll, that was probably a good move.

[bert]

I haven't looked at the photos in extreme detail but a cursory looks reveals the concrete block walls were blown outward and the entire roof slab collapsed downward.

There was a good bit of stuff carried outward with the blast and mixed up in the concrete wall debris.

There was also a tangled mass of rebar that some how shed the concrete around it. Bad concrete that just fragmented into gravel or dust. That may have been at the point of impact. There was also a mangled truck shown. That may be another point of impact.

The photographers always zoom in on important points that never get described by the producers at home. The slab, the rebar and the truck were all repeatedly photographed as important..

[taxcontrol]

Hate to burst your bubble [I know, does not apply, but it is a great pun line for the topic anyway...]

What kills the majority of folks during a 500 lbs bomb blast is secondary effects... not overpressure. Hard to keep living when the chair from the other room has just been inserted into your torso. Notice the photos were of the face... I have not seen any pictures of the body.

[ICE-FLYER]

I just wish the description in the original post happened to Zarqawi slowly. Too bad it happens near instantaneously!

[Billthedrill]

From an article in The Australian -

The house, and all inside it, was wiped out. However, Jordanian sources last night said Zarqawi did not die instantly. Though mortally wounded, he was alive when Iraqi and US troops arrived on the scene.

That was after two bombs. Sounds like he had time to think about it a little. Kinda makes ya warm all over...

[true_blue_texican]

A sinus headache you never wake up from.

[Heatseeker]

Good one Pukin' - I wish I had Osama's email address, to send him a copy. And he's liable to get the special deluxe thermobaric edition too.

[Pukin Dog]

Yeah.

It is usually flying chunks of other stuff that takes limbs off. However, we do have battlefield weapons that contain smart pebbles of death that turn enemy platoons into swiss cheese when necessary.

But this time, we were just trying to kill one a-hole.

[redhead]

Dang, I love those guys! "The Lone Gunman." Awesome.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Furthermore, none of these terrorists are covered by the Geneva Conventions -- for anything, ever. They don't wear a uniform; so they're not covered.

[RodgerD]

Zarqawi did not die instantly. Though mortally wounded, he was alive when Iraqi and US troops arrived on the scene.

I hope he got to see his intestines.

[Bahbah]

I just realized that I was sort of fantasizing that that 500lb bomb fell right on his head.