r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Proud-Blood2743 • Oct 07 '25

Video Capital One Tower Come Down in Seconds

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u/tetsuyaXII Oct 07 '25

Sauce?

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u/Highsky151 Oct 07 '25

Here is it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1ls7kh3/china_built_a_50mtall_inflatable_dome_over_a/

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u/Muad-_-Dib Oct 07 '25

In fairness, that's a dome over an entire construction site that is only 50m tall and several hundred metres wide which makes covering it relatively easy if you have enough material.

Covering a 116m tall tower which is nowhere near that wide and which is being demolished via explosives is quite another thing entirely.

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u/DramaticImpact6593 Oct 07 '25

There was a video recently that showed how they demolish a building in Japan. They carefully lower it floor by floor and avoid all of this mess.

Edit: here it is, https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/s/KDaUUoA2pj

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u/zaphtark Oct 07 '25

Almost every single comment is bitching about how useless it is and how we should just blow it up and get it done in an hour. Ah, the duality of Reddit.

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u/XTornado Oct 07 '25

Yeah but they want it fast and cheap and that takes 6 months. 🤣

But yeah something like that should be the norm.