<![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> @jesusdiaz: Sorry Jesus. GuyFawkes ISN'T wrong. The Titan IV was MUCH smaller than the Saturn V, both in physical size as well as payload. While I may not agree with the manner in which he called you out, he was still correct.

[en.wikipedia.org]
[en.wikipedia.org]

Sorry.

SonOfMagicFact

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> @James: My apologies. I thought you were making a snide comment about how the sound wasn't actually real, but instead was added into the video to make it cooler or whatever (which really makes no sense, once one thinks about it). I guess I did come off as an ass.

Bob_of_Mars

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> I just showed the video to a friend whose comment was, "I wonder if that's a video from the demolition my company just did..." After a quick google search, we found that it in fact was.

The search also yielded information about why the demolition was done this wway. They broke it into three sections and weakened the structure so tthat gravity would pull it away from the concrete launch pad and the construction that is currently happening nearby on the SpaceX program. Here's a link:

[ares.newsvine.com]

jnasser

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> @Worf: Totally agree. I not surprised so much as I am dumbfounded by the number of people that will buy into certain claims. Claims made by anonymous individuals who cite nothing, and have no real expertise on the matter being discussed, but base their assertions on subjective materials and their own tainted personal agendas. As for Wikipedia I hope schools don't let students cite that stuff, because I know a few people who make falsifying wiki articles a personal hobby.

WTFFTW

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> @WTFFTW: And you're surprised because...?

It's anonymity - one of the strengths and one of the downsides of the Internet. Happens on Wikipedia as well - total strangers can claim anything.

Worf

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> It's funny how many people can claim to be structural engineers, demolition experts, and virtual know-it-alls when they are anonymously making comments about something they see on the internet. This goes for all those 9-11 conspiracy theorists too. Then to claim they can make the definitive judgment about something based solely on a relatively poor quality video taken from a distance. Yet they struggle to even use proper spelling.

WTFFTW

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> @Guy-Fawkes: You can yap yap yap about how old you are and insult all you want.

You are still wrong, though.

Jesus Diaz

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> @uberfu: it seems to bounce when it hits the ground, on the back. At least, it does to me.

Jesus Diaz

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> @bosskev: I think they add a space to draw attention to comments. He is just trying to get noticed, I think. I mean, he was.

Jesus Diaz

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> @strider_mt2k: @bosskev:
Here, here. Down with periods. Up with Tampax.


scarbrtj

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> @uberfu: I'm with strider_mt2k on this, uberfu, and probably a whole lotta other folk. Seriously, what do you think you are doing and/or communicating with your "post-initial-comment-period-followup" antics? Is it supposed to mean something? do something? If it is, it is not coming across as anything other than lame (at best), an effect I would assume you do not purposely intend to create.

bosskev

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> @Jango: Good observation. I wonder if they had planned it to self-destruct much better and it just didn't?

bosskev

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> @uberfu: Don't post periods dude.
Your post will get out there, no need to be a jackass about it.

strider_mt2k

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> Saw no bouncing... but great anyways.
How far was the guy with the camera?

Delay on the sound was awesome!

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> So now, they have a twisted, unstable metal mess lying on the ground. Who wants to go into that with a cutting torch? Seems to me it would have been easier to lash chunks of it to cranes, cut girders, and take it down piece by piece from the top of a stable structure that isn't going to roll over and kill 200 workers.

Jango

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> .

uberfu

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> @Jesus Diaz: Bounces Back?Where exactly was the "bounce"?

All I saw was it going down and staying down_ There was a percussion wave [the visible ripple effect] that made it to the camera around the time the top of the structure hit the ground - but that was from the demolition_

Tweak the headlines better dude_

uberfu

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> Where's bin Laden when you need him?

dosguy

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> @trendspotter:

I kind of hope there weren't any people next to it.

And yeah, this was definitely Iron Man's doing.

man in gauze is king ramses II, silly.

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> @B1663R: "now they have to deal with all sorts of crap (asbestos and other stuff)...I'd site my sources but my experience in the field should suffice."

With all your experience, I guess you realize there was most certainly an EIA and that asbestos abatement would have been largely performed BEFORE they pushed the big red button, what with all the rules that pesky EPA and OSHA dream up...

The hulk lying on the ground is probably less than 110' high, since the titan was 160ish feet tall and with it on it's side it's less than half as tall as it was...

Given the price of steel these days, I'm _sure_ they're recycling it. That thing is worth a whole lot of money as scrap.

ppiddy

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> @ripfire4: You've chosen to parse the statement, and frame your questions, in such a narrow fashion that you can be sure of getting the right answer. But that's just semantic navel-gazing. If one were to ask "What was the launch complex used for?" the answer "To launch the largest expendable rockets the US had" would be absolutely correct. When it was being used, the Titan IV was the largest around, because the Saturn V didn't exist any more, and as soon as something better came along in 2005 they stopped using it.

The statement can be interpreted correctly. That you chose not to do so says more about your attitude towards the article than it does about its correctness.

icelight

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> @workingonyourinvoice: Nice Family Guy reference.

surfer88

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> @icelight: "When the Titan IV was in service, it was, in fact the largest expendable rocket currently in use by the US."

How can something that "was" be "current"? Couldn't you say the same thing about Saturn V?

"When the Saturn V was in service, it was, in fact the largest expendable rocket currently in use by the US."

The Launch Complex 40-and 41-was the base for the largest US expendable rocket, the Titan IV.

If someone were to ask: What is the largest expendable rocket in the US? Using the quote, one would answer "Titan IV". But the fact is that it's not. There's no word on "currently existing" and if it does, it would still be wrong because Titan IV was retired three years ago.

ripfire

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> @ripfire4: That's not what he was trying to say. When the Titan IV was in service, it was, in fact the largest expendable rocket currently in use by the US. And so it was therefore our largest expendable rocket, since we didn't have any more Saturn Vs lying around waiting to be used. It isn't any more, both of the EELV rockets are larger, but at the time, the quote was absolutely correct as written, as is Jesus's statement.

icelight

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> @qbrad: Good call!

Annex1

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> @alpayerturkmen: They still can take it apart, but now they won't need to build ridiculously huge cranes to take it apart. Any metal that gets recycled is melted down and reformed. Using old bits and pieces directly off any old building is bad practice and begs for rust, and other problems that just make the builders have to take it apart again to fix the problem pieces.

hagrun

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> Yeah, I figured you'd be too chicken-shit to post my rebuttal to your smart-ass-kid reply to me.

Asshat.

Guy-Fawkes

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> @ Jesus: How about if they saw the launch of every manned US space mission starting with the Mercury capsules, kid? And for that matter, listened to the Castro takeover of Cuba live on the radio as it happened.

When you simply spew forth pre-digested bytes without doing any research of your own, that's sloppy reporting. You have lost one Hell of a lot of respect from this old man with your "I'm so leet because I get press releases before you do" response. Let me respond to you in kind, child:

You appear to be unable to tell the difference between 51m and 111m. Let me help; 111m is bigger.

Guy-Fawkes

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> Does anyone remember a television commercial years ago, where a demolition crew is imploding a building? The onlookers "ooh" and "aah" and clap. Then the crew chief turns the detonator knob again and another building comes down. Then another, and another. He smiles and says "Well, we had some left over explosives. People love this stuff."

I don't remember what the commercial was for - the message was something like "just because you can, doesn't mean you should..." or something, and I haven't seen it since 9/11 (and I can speculate as to why).

Help us, Gizmodians, you're our only hope - what was this commercial that this story brings to mind?

ps61318

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> our government did a better job setting the explosives in the world trade center. It came straight down

imTheKing

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]>

Spent a LOT of time at LC-40 as well as walking up and down that structure years ago. The exposed elevators didn't work all the time and it was good exercise walking up and down all those steps to work. There is a tremendous amount of steel there (6500 tons) and even in the 90's it was rusted from all that salt air.

It is huge (265' tall) and there was a great view of the sunrise from the top of it in the morning. Of course in the middle of the summer you'd have to swat all the bugs off you and leave the structure every afternoon when the thunderstorms came thru.

[www.spacearium.com]

tech4metoo

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> So was it a botched job or they really intend to do it that way?

grimgrassofhome

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> @Jesus Diaz: I understood what you were trying to say in the article, that Titan IV was the largest rocket launched at the complex. But even with a quote from NASA, there's no doubt that Saturn V was the largest and most powerful (even from its first stage engine) among the family of rockets ever launched in the US.

Maybe it would have read better if it said:

The United States Air Force uses two space launch complexes, Launch Complex 40 and Launch Complex 41, at Cape Canaveral AS, to launch one of the nation's largest expendable rocket, the Titan IV.

ripfire

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> If you look closely you can see Iron Man knock this structure down with one knee.

Lester56

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> It doesn't say anything about the Titan IV being the nation's largest ever expendable rocket.

Drew Draws nothing of merit

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> Some of it will most likely be recycled for the Ares program!

Creibold

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> @Jesus Diaz:
That's amazing.
You can hear the sound of Guy-Fawkes' comment crashing down just as you read Jesus' takedown.

blank

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> @workingonyourinvoice: Nice Family Guy reference...

SgtMac02

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> @Guy-Fawkes:

Launch Complex 40-41

The United States Air Force uses two space launch complexes, Launch Complex 40 and Launch Complex 41, at Cape Canaveral AS, to launch the nation's largest expendable rocket, the Titan IV.

NASA Facility Tour

Ah, I love the smell of napalm in the morning, specially if it's to burn smartypants who think they know what they are talking about because they saw Tom Hanks in Apollo XIII.

Do your homework, then write your critiques. Oh, and sloppy reporting? Houston, you have a problem.

Jesus Diaz

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> Why must Americans blow everything up? Freakn morons.

tinkertank

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> Passing the Saturn that still stands in Huntsville, Alabama, it looks very UNimpressive to me. Plus, I've been next to the one in Houston, too.

I somehow had expected the empire state building ... (childhood eyes).

FThorn

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> @alpayerturkmen:

"why in the hell have destroyed that? Would it be too hard to take it apart and recycle?"

Squatters. I had a friend who once lived in an abandoned water tower. Could you imagine having complex 40 all to yourself.

Galavoxx

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> @Bob_of_Mars: Wow, you sure come off as an ass with that comment. Kudos.

There were two detonations, two "booms". The sound was from two detonations, not the structure hitting the ground.

I would wager that the audio was NOT shifted in the video. If the first "boom" was from the tower hitting the ground, as you say, and you estimate the distance by the (speed of) sound, the camera would have been about 850 meters from the tower. The camera is obviously much further away.

There was actually a delay of about 4.8 seconds from flash to us hearing the sound of the explosion. That puts the camera about 1600 meters away. 850 vs 1600 meters? You decide. The safe distance from an implosion using cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine (for steel) is much further than concrete explosives.

Dear Giz, is there a way for me to make a killfile for commenters?

James

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> Man, the sound of the blast totally killed a bird too. You can see two birds fly away, and one more just sort of start to fly and then fall into the brush. Damn you NASA!

DJPrufrock

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> I don't know about the bouncing... but I live about 15 miles away, and I heard it.

scarbrtj

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> It didn't look to me like it bounced. All I saw was a camera shake and the structure rolled.

Who's to say they aren't going to recycle the pieces once it's properly pulverized? Maybe they'll sell off little bite-sized chunks with certificates noting that "this was a piece of the launch pad used to launch Vikings, Voyagers, Mars Observer, Cassini-Huygens and many more..."

That would be one way to raise some much needed NASAbucks...

ideaman2020

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> @aelver: or the title of a really bad movie.

doofusgumby

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> "the largest US expendable rocket, the Titan IV"

So are you saying that the Saturn V was smaller than the Titan IV, or that the Saturn was non-expendable?

According to NASA, "The three-stage Saturn V was taller than a 36-story building. It was the largest, most powerful rocket ever launched." 111m (363 ft.) tall.

The Titan IV is a mere 51.00 m (167.00 ft) tall.

Sloppy reporting.

Guy-Fawkes

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> Comment on NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back This looks like a failed demolition to me. Now instead of a pile that can be (relatively) safely dealt with, they have a towering partially- intact structure that has unknown stability. How the heck are they going to deal with it now?

PhyllisKapla

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> Complex 40 ... sounds like a certifiable medical condition.

aelver

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> They shoulda just used a sawzall

Tayng

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> @Jesus Diaz: Sounds like a the makings of a good Giz reader video production contest.

mildretard

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> @ripfire4: Saturn V was a multistage system. Titan IV is a single stage that can accept a 2nd stage, but doesn't need it. It is also the most powerful unmanned rocket.

Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> @qbrad: @phantam: I think it's funny that all the people including people who probably built the thing got together, figured out where to place charges, double checked that, took the time to place the charges, double check the placement, and yet it didn't fall exactly like it was supposed to. I would say this goes to show that even one mistake can throw off a planned demo, which should have been easy as there weren't people working in the thing nearly 24 hours a day, but I am guessing someone will say I'm wrong. You see, this was MEANT to go wrong to disprove people. Just like a few days after Rosie O'Donnell got on TV and said fire has never melted steel(don't tell that to blacksmiths), a tanker carrying gas "crashed" into a steel bridge and melted it. But you see, the genius government we have planned all of this to disprove Rosie.

Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> "the largest US expendable rocket, the Titan IV"

The largest? Am I the only one who remembers Saturn V? THE largest US expendable rocket? The one we used to get to the moon?

ripfire

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> They should've done a bombimg run with Tomahawks...
It would have been a good practice run and a lot more fun & fireworks...!


aec007

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> bush will see this and come out in an hour or so and say "it mighta baen terrorists"

phantam

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> @Jesus Diaz: They did, but they can't show that in the video, of course. This will all be cleaned up by the weekend, the construction workers are just photoshopped in.

Drew Draws nothing of merit

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> @nikko1221: I have a friend who lives down there, and thats exactly what he said during one of the shuttle launches.

If its not toxic, can they drag (parts of) the structure into the ocean for a new reef?

Curves

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> @trendspotter: They are ants, trendspotter, they are ants.

workingonyourinvoice

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> Is it just me or did that thing in fact not bounce at all.. Where's the bounce?

Cliff_Dangers

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> oh, that wasn't supposed to be a rocket launch?

iPhoneGroupie

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> @James: No it doesn't. If you had eyes, you might notice that the bottom hits the ground before the entire structure tips over. That happens seconds before the shockwave, so that is where the shockwave comes from. Man, learn to observe.

Bob_of_Mars

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> @qbrad: Prolly would have been cheaper to fly a remote controlled 737 into the face of the structure. I heard we had a few of those lying around...

tehronin

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> Silly me, I actually thought it was going to bounce like the title teased.

Sora57

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> They shoulda put windows/outside walls on it and tricked it out as high end condos with the highest. geek. factor. ever.

Watching launches from the roof party house would be sweet too: "I CAN'T HEAR YOU NOW, THERE'S A LAUNCH GOING ON DOWN THE STREET. I'LL HAVE TO CALL YOU BACK"

nikko1221

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> Hooray!
We've finally defeated the Space Age!
We have been greeted as liberators in the new Dark Ages.

blank

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> That thing is huge, the people and cars next to it look like ants!

trendspotter

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> Is this actually what they planned? Doesn't seem to have accomplished much.

theimmc

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> @alpayerturkmen: Oh, the materials will get recycled. It's just easier (and safer) to turn a large hunk of debris into lots of little hunks of debris than it is to turn an intact structure into scrap.

Rhainor

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> The irony is that all that metal will go to the communist space program.
Yep, cut up, torched or ripped off. Scrapped to barge or containers and off to China's foundries to be used for the frames to launch moon mission and ICBM weapon platforms.

All for a (weakened) buck. Your tax dollars at work against you.

SigmundTheSeaMonster

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> @B1663R: bah. NASA and the Air Force should have build a megabot with huge lasers and arms to cut it and crush it on the spot.

Jesus Diaz

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> @drewdrawsYOU!: I must be an idiot. Cos it wasn't sarcasm. And you know that old addage, "They don't make things like they used to."? This is one of the things that won't be made as solidly as it was back in the day. So I'd rather prefer something that has stood multiple hurricanes and tumultuous seasons and is still this difficult to demolish to launch me to Mars.

qbrad

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> *pushes button*
"Implosion? but, i thought you said..."

B1663R

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> well, have fun taking that down now. it would have been much more effective of stripping it down to the skeleton and blasting it.

now they have to deal with all sorts of crap (asbestos and other stuff)

who is going to be crazy enough to go up to the top with some torches and start cutting? ( the highest reaching hydraulic shears only reach about 110' or so)

I'd site my sources but my experience in the field should suffice.

so there!

B1663R

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> I was surprised they didn't take the opportunity to snip it into slightly smaller chunks while they were at it.
Though, rigging charges to cut all those bars would probably give anyone a headache.

BoinK

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> @Y2KGTP: Do you really want them to be launching stuff to Mars from a structure made in the 1960's? I mean, what did they accomplish back then that we haven't made 50 times better since?

What? The Moon?

Crap.

Drew Draws nothing of merit

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> @qbrad: Sarcasm or idiot?

Drew Draws nothing of merit

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> @TheCyberBob: Well put Bob.

gelatinous

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> No other uses for it? Real estate that valuable down there?

Y2KGTP

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> @alpayerturkmen: I'd forget about the cost... demolition is used in order to bring a structure down quickly and safely. If you had a bunch of hippies, sorting the materials into recycling boxes the process would never end, and lots of greensters would get hurt.

gelatinous

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> @alpayerturkmen: Yes. Cuz disassembling a building tall enough to have it's own weather system in the top most reaches is just like sorting pop cans. The idea is to blow it to pieces then sort them out there. They "may" be recycled but there places setup to recycle pieces of metal as big as buildings are rather far and few between.

TheCyberBob

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> Launch complex fall down go boom

gelatinous

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> Nix the unless.

qbrad

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> It's nice how the sound from the explosions gets to the camera just as you see the structure hit the ground. Nice effect.

James

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> Shattering or shaking the cameras?

That looks like an incredibly resilient structure!
Have fun breaking THAT thing up.

strider_mt2k

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> Must not have been on fire for long enough. I've heard that unless a building is burning on jetfuel for about an hour, it'll collapse on its own. No explosions necesarry.

qbrad

]]> <![CDATA[NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back]]> why in the hell have destroyed that? Would it be too hard to take it apart and recycle?

alpayerturkmen

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