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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Soc dem media is really dropping the ball today. I see Jacobin and Lever (Sirota’s outfit) mourning about Kirk getting air-holed as an impetus for reaction. This shit should be treated with no more concern than the weather. “The movement” is neither set back, or advanced by spontaneous events like this. It isn’t “adventurism” to celebrate the death of an evil person, and it isn’t “prudent” to mourn the deterioration of bourgeois political norms. This shit is a consequence of the detrriorating conditions we live in, not a driver of those conditions. It is going to continue no matter how we feel about it.
Who are these articles for? Is a would-be assassin going to be convinced to abandon their plans by a Jacobin article? Are we supposed to expect the disorganized masses to just sit down and take it while the right ramps up the genocide, social murder, and disintegration of civil and social institutions? There are hundreds of millions of proletarians. Not all of them are going to sit and wait for “the party” to materialize and guide them. That’s just how it is. That is the reality of the circumstances we must struggle in.
If a “lone wolf” can torpedo the movement, then so can an “agent provocateur,” and if that’s all it takes, then you aren’t taking the situation seriously at all.
Been getting a lot of use out of this one
In all seriousness, it’s one of the most impressively competent assassinations in living memory. Long range, one shot, sniping him in exactly the right place to bleed out within moments, a clean getaway (so far), and it happened exactly as he was talking about gun violence? If it was in a book I’d call too unrealistic.
Legendary talent hope they dream bigger next time
Counter Punch has an ok one up. The Killing of Charles James Kirk: Violent Speech Leads to Violence
They are for the cops, for the reactionaries/rightists, for the imperial state, they are attempting to avoid being targeted by disavowing. Also I guess part of liberal norms policing, liberals detest un-sanctioned violence. To reign in any impulses among their base to maybe sympathize with this and similar acts which might in the end result in them questioning liberalism as a whole.