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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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[–] dumbass@leminal.space 70 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Remolition.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Good morning!

[–] HonkTonkWoman@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

Arnold Palmer ain’t dead yet!

[–] Trex202@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Jackhammer_Joe@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week 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!

[–] antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

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

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 37 points 1 week 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@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week 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.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Smh my head, it's so obvious now!

Construction companies hate this one weird trick for quick jobs!

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

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

[–] awwwyissss@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

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

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] Vakbrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 week 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@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

German efficiency at its best.

[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 1 week 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.

[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago

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

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

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

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 1 week ago

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