I had to share this video of a silo being brought down. Unless this video is doctored, this is the most incredible collapse I have witnessed.
I can say that I am an expert on silo collapses, of course. That led me to look for other silo collapses.
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BEST. EVER.
Darren, 🙂 Well done sir.
Wow. Just like WTC 7. I had no idea that Osama’s magic could cause silos to collapse just as easily as he made WTC 7 to fall down go boom – and the
silo didn’t even have the silly excuse of a few small fires. Our government
shouldn’t have killed Osama, they should have hired him for his brains and ability to harness Muslim physics to bring down tall structures without the necessity of old-fashion controlled demolition or fake planes flying into (and thru) them.
If only they made a little blue pill for aging silos. 🙂
Though some aging barn doors are not too disappointed.
ljc,
yeah. it was like they fell into water and submerged.
Better if they had been pyramidal.
I707 – Maybe the vision of someone riding a silo was a flashback from this: http://youtu.be/ueuauKKjPZI
Strange, it looked to me like it was walking and then fell into the ground as though it was going into the water. Weird.
They are essentially thin corrugated sheet metal bolted together without any framework, a soda can has much more structural integrity. If they lean over a bit or get creased they can collapse, especially when empty (the filling, even if loose grain, greatly strengthens the structure). In the second video, they probably wouldn’t have collapsed if both were filled with grain (the right hand silo is empty).
I detected some ICBM silos flying as tech obs over AZ, AT NIGHT. Guess how.
I wonder if the tower in Pisa will go down in that fashion.
Now that you are an expert in silo collapses….. Will you distinguish between grain silos, missile or nuclear ones……
Pretty cool….
It reminds me of a bumper sticker I read….
Sitting around a campfire…… And the caption says…… It’s all fun and games until someone looses a weiner…..
This is what’s referred to as “Died peacefully in his sleep” in silo culture.
That second one seemed like it wasn’t supposed to collapse. It still had stuff in it and fell on the house or barn or whatever
It fell like a silo filled with slinky toys.
I must have seen incorrectly. A person riding the roof, and then standing beside it with both arms raised just after it touched ground.
Wow! the first one was spectacular the way it just collapsed one row at a time!