Building implosion
In the controlled demolition industry, building implosion is the strategic placing of explosive material and timing of its detonation so that a structure collapses on itself in a matter of seconds, minimizing the physical damage to its immediate surroundings. Despite its terminology, building implosion also includes the controlled demolition of other structures, like bridges, smokestacks, towers, and tunnels. This is typically done to save time and money of what would otherwise be an extensive demolition process with construction equipment, as well as to reduce construction workers exposure to infrastructure that is in severe disrepair.
Building implosion, which reduces to seconds a process which could take months or years to achieve by other methods, typically occurs in urban areas[citation needed] and often involves large landmark structures.
The actual use of the term "implosion" to refer to the destruction of a building is a misnomer. This had been stated of the destruction of 1515 Tower in West Palm Beach, Florida. "What happens is, you use explosive materials in critical structural connections to allow gravity to bring it down.
The term "implosion" was coined by my grandmother back in, I guess, the '60s. It's a more descriptive way to explain what we do than "explosion". There are a series of small explosions, but the building itself isn't erupting outward. It's actually being pulled in on top of itself. What we're really doing is removing specific support columns within the structure and then cajoling the building in one direction or another, or straight down.
- Stacy Loizeaux, NOVA, December 1996
Building implosion techniques do not rely on the difference between internal and external pressure to collapse a structure. Instead, the goal is to induce a progressive collapse by weakening or removing critical supports; therefore, the building can no longer withstand gravity loads and will fail under its own weight
Numerous small explosives, strategically placed within the structure, are used to catalyze the collapse. Nitroglycerin, dynamite, or other explosives are used to shatter reinforced concrete supports. Linear shaped charges are used to sever steel supports. These explosives are progressively detonated on supports throughout the structure. Then, explosives on the lower floors initiate the controlled collapse.
A simple structure like a chimney can be prepared for demolition in less than a day. Larger or more complex structures can take up to six months of preparation to remove internal walls and wrap columns with fabric and fencing before firing the explosives.
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Ken Burns is a big nerd that loves hagiographizing US imperialism but his baseball documentary series is pretty good if kinda schmaltzy if you want a comprehensive history.
This is the earliest radio broadcast I could find easily from 1934.
(Feel free to ask any baseball questions or strategy or jargon shit too, this is definitely one of my special interests too. Baseball is to sports and being on the spectrum what trains are to transportation or Sonic the Hedgehog is to videogames, there's endless trivia and stats to nerd out about.)
Love a train, not into sonic cause Nintendo kid, but I know almost everything about every first party Nintendo franchise. Baseball needs to be crossed off that list
I was mostly a Zelda kid but yeah
I can go on about the chess battle type of mental meta game of pitch sequencing the way
can about MMA, when you get to ascended baseball nerd mastery every at bat has its own internal game of expectations and bluffs inside it layered on top of the physical abilities of the pitcher and batter. There can be like 3 or 4 layers of "he thinks that I think that he thinks that I think I'm gonna throw this, so I'm actually gonna throw that," I remember hearing Mariano Rivera talk about pitching to Edgar Martinez where he said Edgar could foul off anything and predict what would be the optimal pitch in a situation and sit on it expecting it, so sometimes he'd deliberately throw him a fastball right down the middle and it would actually work because it was the last thing he'd be expecting. 
I love shit like that
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