Rupert Wingfield-Hayes for the BBC in Tokyo

[yanpa]

Japan's incredible shrinking building
A company in Japan has come up with a new way of demolishing high-rise buildings in densely built-up areas, as an alternative to using wrecking balls or explosives.

Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports from Tokyo.

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[Coligny]

Truly the proof that 911 wuz an inside jerb...

maybe...

don't know, but if you pass the video accelerated and add photoshop smoke it look the same... sort of...

(can't sleep these days... for reasonz of excessive zombie novelz reading... starting to show badly on cognitive activities...)

[yanpa]

(can't sleep these days... for reasonz of excessive zombie novelz reading... starting to show badly on cognitive activities...)

I hadn't noticed

[Coligny]

I are master in decepshiun...

[omae mona]

I can't make fun of that newbie reporter too much. For a geek like me, this is actually kind of interesting news, I think. And it's current, not a rehash of "ooh, fancy heated toilet seats". Has been on Japan TV news broadcasts quite a bit in the last few months, too, so hard to fault the BBC for covering it. It's pretty weird to see the progress on that building in real life.

[Russell]

Speaking about 911, a much cheaper way to bring down a building in a precise way is start a fire in it...

[Coligny]

As a -truly awefull- historian, I always try to see present disaster the way they might be presented 30 or 50 years laters...

This shit is not going to look good, second -for now- would be Fukushima... unless something much worse happens making WWII look like happy party times...

(not talking of the absolute historical importance of the event here)