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The blasting of a chimney at the former Henninger Brewery in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Sachsenhausen on December 2nd, 2006.

Finalist of Wikipedia Picture of the Year 2008.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] spankmonkey 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] ChicoSuave 4 points 1 month ago

Good morning!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Arnold Palmer ain’t dead yet!

[–] RizzRustbolt 1 points 1 month ago

Remolition.

[–] Trex202 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Jackhammer_Joe 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

God damn it! How I hate stupid people who put 'before-and-after'-pics in the wrong order!

Fuck OP!

Praise Trex202!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Some languages read from right to left. Maybe the original image was from one of those places.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Damn, crazy how they had so many lined up like that and perfectly timed the demolitions for this shot.

That must have taken at least five full minutes of preparation!

[–] surewhynotlem 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, don't be silly. It's a left to right timeline. They exploded that stack into existence. It's much quicker than building it brick by brick.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Smh my head, it's so obvious now!

Construction companies hate this one weird trick for quick jobs!

[–] Buddahriffic 2 points 1 month ago

I own 22 buildings thanks to random piles of rubble and explosives!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

No that's fine, just steal my joke why don't ya

[–] rockSlayer 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's significantly more interesting while backwards, but why?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure it is actually the fastest chimney construction ever!

See?! It even forms a dust cloud around the workers because they work so fast!

[–] Tujio 4 points 1 month ago

German efficiency at its best.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not to be a know it all, but I believe that there is a chimney remolition. It’s where they implode one together.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Wait. No. It is a demolition. We’re just looking at it from behind.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

First i was like "Why are there so many chimneys in a row?"

[–] homesweethomeMrL 5 points 1 month ago

Wow the whole tall thing just fell right down into its own footprint.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

From the thumbnail I thought it was actually a row of chimneys gonna be dominoed over. Now I'm kinda disappointed...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Psaldorn 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)