Comments on: Daruma-otoshi Building Demolition

By: avraamov

avraamov — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:14:40 +0000

fred dibnah would horrified.

By: RM

RM — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:24:47 +0000

It isn´t funny without powder.

By: ted

ted — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:46:47 +0000

Something not quite right about that video.

By: MrPumpernickel

MrPumpernickel — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:05:56 +0000

Peter, I think if you take all things into account: the time it takes to get permission to use explosives in a tightly controlled environment such as that (i.e. buildings nearby), the time it takes to plan, safety precautions, clean up afterwards (the dust cloud would probably be immense) and so forth I'm not at all amazed that this method is faster.

The actual tearing down phase may take longer than a quick kaboom, but there's so much more surrounding it, and I don't think you can beat this for safety anyway

By: Geekazoid

Geekazoid — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:05:43 +0000

Nah, let's see some controlled detonation! I want to see explosions, and a quick collapse and huge plume of smoke.

By: DOJ

DOJ — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:30:09 +0000

lets adapt this technique to logging

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:53:41 +0000

Japanese people are from Japan.

By: Ali S.

Ali S. — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:08:46 +0000

I would have loved seeing a camera filming it from a distance with the Tetris theme song playing.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:27:35 +0000

I dont really see How this method is much faster.. I would think the explosion itself is faster than clearing even 1 floor (unless its the picking through the debris remaining)

And its safe enough to stand by.. You can tell how slow the building descends

By: kid_icarus

kid_icarus — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:14:25 +0000

i say blow it up! KABOOOOOOM!!!! sorry, sometimes i just like to see things explode. too bad the video was no longer available.

By: sigh

sigh — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:46:15 +0000

But what is the cost difference?

By: SenorMysterioso

SenorMysterioso — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:38:36 +0000

They should just do like the game and construct a gigantic hammer to knock the floors out from under the building

By: Jacki

Jacki — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:32:57 +0000

Lol not possible. Unless that clean up crew and debris was staged...or unless the building was made paper-mache style with debris o_O

By: Satoshi

Satoshi — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:56:49 +0000

No real - reverse film, trick camera.

Thats how we build in JP - first top floor
and raise up to build floor below.

By: Shelby

Shelby — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:02:52 +0000

Very very very cool!

But there are a lot of people very very very close to the descending building. Is the method THAT safe? Again cool.