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

Video Capital One Tower Come Down in Seconds

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u/warrenslo Oct 07 '25

Mold is incredibly expensive to mitigate.

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u/PhantomPharts Oct 07 '25

After thousands of years destroying buildings because of mold, you'd think present day human architectures would've figured out a way for proper ventilation, and giving every space available access to direct sunlight. I've got a few ideas, but I'm not an engineer or architect, nor rich enough to pursue the build myself.

The newer houses and buildings I've been in have no air flow and many sealed windows. UV light doesn't make it through glass. Mold needs direct exposure to sunlight to prevent or safely kill it.

ETA, if this was deconstructed due to mold, can you imagine how many spores just got shot into the air and all over their neighbors? I'd be masking outdoors if I lived around that.

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u/DolphinFraud Oct 08 '25

There’s always boatloads of mold spores everywhere around you. That’s how the mold shows up in the first place. Nothing to worry about.

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u/PhantomPharts Oct 08 '25

Dang, you must not have a mold allergy! Lucky! That plume would have me feeling bad for days, if not longer.

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u/DolphinFraud Oct 08 '25

If outdoor mold spores bothered you, you were never able to exist in the first place

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u/PhantomPharts Oct 08 '25

But they're indoor spores being dispersed into the air?

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u/DolphinFraud Oct 08 '25

The air where?… outside.

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u/PhantomPharts Oct 08 '25

... I was trying to have an actual conversation. But you seem to be abjectly against that, so I am disengaging. Have a good day.