Right? I don't understand Simon Whistler - I love his content, but the number of channels he's featured on is perplexing. I've always wondered if he makes these channels himself or is a sort of "freelance RUclips host" that gets paid by the creators of these channels to host the videos.
If you like BIG explosions you should do an episode on the removal of "Ripple Rock", at one time the largest non-nuclear explosion ever. Ripple Rock was a navigational obstacle in Discovery channel between Vancouver Island and mainland British Columbia... after many attemps they finally blew it up in 1958 by tunneling under the sea floor and up into the rock, filling it with explosives and KABLOOEY
@@jarnold1789 ya pretty cool. I live a short distance from the area and have hiked the trail to the top of the bluff overlooking the channel.... on the way up you pass lots of large boulders (like car sized) that look out of place but only after I watched the video did I realize they were blasted up onto the bluff....
I was present for the Royal Canberra Hospital "Implosion" that sent 100kg+ chunks of steel and concrete serveral kilometers across the lake and raining the spectators, killing poor schoolgirl Katie Bender
@@smartycat528 Yeah I remember the talk of the Royal Canberra being "rotten and unfit for expansion" except that it was designed to have ten more floors for expansion... rotten thing to do to a perfectly good hospital....
No conspiracy theories. For the Deutchebank building, if you get one of "those" insurance adjusters... His job is to minimize the size of the claim saying things like.... there's nothing wrong with these bricks, they can be used again. Nothing wrong here that a little paint wouldn't fix. Tell you what, I've got a glass guy, tell me how many panes of broken glass you have & he'll deliver some new onea. Is there any other damage? How many gallons of paint do you think you neef? I've got a paint guy too.
I remember being a kid and going to a Mariners baseball game in the Kingdome. I also remember images of the demolition being front page on the newspapers. There was a lot of sentiment that it was a waste to blow the Kingdome up, so the designers of the new arena taking its place hyped up the new, retractable roof.
I watched seahawk & mariner games, I went to rv sales and antique sales, and who knows what else from 1980 to mid 1990's and i've been in the new stadiums they erected in it's place, I liked the baseball stadium which now sites on the original spot, wasn't so enamored with the football stadium.
Some of my youngest memories are of my dad taking me to mariners games at the kingdome. Listening to the stadium announcer call Ken griffey Jr. to bat, the smoke from the fireworks when a home run was hit... and me with my signed griffey mitt knee high to a grasshopper in the upper deck, waiting excitedly for the wave to come by. I cried watching them bring it down on tv. Safeco is great but it was never the same.
Might be me, but others have noted that the Kingdome was a massive concrete structure in an area where snow isn’t much of a threat, but the HHHumphrey Metrodome in MSP was almost like a giant hefty bag over a metal girder structure. Both were built around the same time, (mid-70s)
@J D yeah mate, I don't wanna be rude but Tacoma's/Tundras aren't Hiluxes. They're much bigger than a Hilux, although sort of similar. It's sort of the bigger, more upmarket, 'americanised' version of a true hilux
The mariners had some pretty amazing teams in the kingdome friend. Griffey, Randy Johnson, Jay buhner, Edgar martinez... some of the best players ever to touch the field imo. The dome was often packed, and when the wave came by it was like a force of nature. Was a hell of a place to watch a game.
@@thermitelogic Nothing but love for the Kingdome here. Even in the dark days of the 80s it was always great to go to a big league ballgame and have my grandfather teach me box score. We were there for Gaylord Perry's 300th win in '82. It was a dark time from a win/loss perspective, but they never cared if you jumped seats after a few innings and the grub was cheap.
My grandfather designed an earthen dam for his creak because he wanted it for irrigation and he wanted one that would eventually ware itself out - preferably not too much longer than the rest of his life. But before Spartanburg County gave him the permits he had an accident that forced him to move back to the northeast. If he and my grandmother remained in South Carolina it would have been a dam that would have demolished itself.
I was at an Implosion in Atlanta, GA once. It was midway during a pub crawl that included over 150 people. Half of us got lost because the building they brought down was a landmark we had been using. We had no idea it was going to happen. I felt a bit like Hitchhikers guide lol
My dad was a firefighter in Newark, NJ when I was growing up. The fire department had to be present for any demolitions. He took me and my sister to those demolitions all the time. I loved it. Maybe that's why I love tearing sh💩t up. I'm good at it.
I worked on the 38th floor in the Deutschebank Building (at the time, it was still the Bankers Trust Building, 130 Liberty Street, or 1 Liberty Plaza). My desk had a panoramic view of NY harbor, Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty (I was there for the Statue's Centennial celebration with the parade of tall ships, and went in that evening to look DOWN at the fireworks!), Verrazano Bridge, Staten Island, Governor's Island etc. We had a satellite data center across the Hudson in New Jersey. I left there in 1992, a few months before the truck bomb was set off in the parking garage of the Trade Center. When the south tower came down it put a 24-floor gash down the front of the building, about one office deep. We had a skybridge to the WTC plaza and would hang out for lunch or shop in the hug underground complex that was under the WTC. When they took the building down it was the largest floor-by-floor dismantling of a building ever done...there was no room around it for any type of explosive demolition.
You're an awesome guy, Mr Whistler. I'm gonna end up spending my last twenty five years grazing general knowledge on a comfy chair just like my dad and you're gonna be the first place I look every time.
6:29 "All dams have negative effects on the aquatic environment where they're located. But these adverse effects are usually canceled out by the benefits of hydroelectric power and flood control." Um...I'm no fish scientist, but I doubt very much the fish agree with that assessment, Simon. The salmon electric bills are already pretty low.
Yeah I dunno, those underwater plasma screens are pretty inefficient. Plus, you know, refrigerators have never been all that great. The seals are a nightmare, having to keep all that water out. Those lying Pacific bastards have always been shifty about how much it costs to run the average salmon household. I'll take the reports from their Atlantic cousins much more seriously, at least they're more honest about the cost of living. They report that it's the lights that are the real killer when it comes to the bills. They're been looking into LED lighting, but it keeps burning their retinas..... Yeah I know. That last one was terrible.
>>Mr. Whistler: Good show! I too, love a decent demo (too bad about Singer and the other architecturally brilliant projects). >>Speaking of which, how is Notre Dame and France's efforts at re-building it? Might this be a subject for Side Projects? There is surely a great deal of history. Warmly Yada, Yada, Yada.
Sad Story: In 1997 In Canberra Australia I went to a controlled demolition of a hospital, it was on a small island in a lake (small lake). It was a big public event, I was there fairly close. The explosion went wrong, and it was not contained, large chunks of rock and steal were ejected from the explosion and you could see them splashing into the lake, all around people in boats also watching. I think about 12 people were struck and injured, and one young girl (12) was tragically killed (not far from me). Her name was Katie Bender she was killed instantly. (details are quite horrific). From memory the company that did the implosion was called "Controlled Demolition".. Was a very sad time for a small city of 300,000 at the time.
Hey can you do one of the Forth rail and road bridges please? It is three rather large bridges that are very close together and show some of the most iconic bridge types.
How about the biggest uncontrolled demolitions (not by terrorists, definitely not by terrorists) more like demolitions that have gone wrong (hopefully without people getting hurt)
@@eagonten: Not necessarily. There are all sorts of videos of structures collapsing only partially, or falling the wrong way, or failing to collapse altogether. And then everyone's just standing there awkwardly (usually at a safe distance), while the contractor has to figure out a safe way to demolish the rest of the structure without losing too much money.
The implosion of the Kingdome was expected to set off minor earthquakes. The University of Washingtons’ Seismology Department set up sensors allover the region to record the results. All those tiny earthquakes that got triggered gave a lot of insight into the local fault lines.
I've been copy & pasting the below message for ages on your other channel, Geographics. This is a fascinating place with so much history and so many stories to tell, not least our own wedding there in 2005! I don't want to have to be spamming TWO of your channels now! Allegendly! OG Blaze reference there! Simon, please could you possibly do a video of the Rosslyn Chapel? This place is so worthy of a video! Building commenced in 1456 and took many years to complete, despite it's relatively small size. The main reason was the sheer volume of intricate carvings within. Virtually every square inch has been carved with symbols both Christian as well as Pagan, depictions from the bible and even a type of corn from America that pre-dates Columbus' supposed discovery. Two aspects that must be mentioned when discussing Rosslyn are that the Holy Grail is alleged by some to be hidden there, as portrayed in the Dan Brown novel The Da Vinci Code with Tom Hanks playing the lead role in the film. The other aspect is The Apprentice Pillar. The Master Mason carved his pillar (on the left as you look down the aisle) and apparently had to go away on some other business only to discover on his return the Apprentice mason had done his own 'freestyle' work on a pillar to the right. The apprentice's pillar was such a thing of beauty the Master mason killed the apprentice out of jealousy! This is such an amazing place with so much history and so many stories I honestly think Geographics should do a video on it.
I live in Jacksonville, Fl, and was able to watch the demolition of the old Veteran's memorial collysium, and the cooling towers at the old power plant. It is exteemely satisfying to watch as it happened.
There was a controlled demolition of high rise flats many years ago in the Gorbals Glasgow. It was due to happen at 11am so I went down with a hangover. They pushed the blast back two hours and when it happened I just clenched myself tightly. An elderly lady was killed by debris.
I grew up in a house near a closed power plant from the 60s and when I was in highschool the city decided to have a controlled demolition and it was amazing to see the towers just topple
Do you think you could do a video on the Nevada-Class Battleships as both ships had interesting careers. One of which USS Nevada tried to escape Pearl Harbor, fought at D-Day , Iwo Jima, and Okinawa, and survived 2 atomic bombs. I would say that's a mega ship. Awesome video. Hope more videos are coming.
Got to give Credit to the Sander Hall demolition in Cincinnati for the sake of it not only being one of the largest ever implosions, but for the MASSIVE asbestos cloud that washed over thousands of spectators who were standing too close. Hell, the entire story of that building is interesting as fuck thanks to how much of a disaster it was. It was the youngest building to ever be imploded, after having been demolished only like 10 years after it's completion.
Simon, I hope there is a part 2 of this video covering controlled implosions GONE WRONG. Yes, seeing them work correctly is great, but seeing the explosions go off and the building is still standing is better and a bit funny. This is even better when it takes more than 2 tries to implode the structure.
About time you started another channel! I was wondering what you were doing with all your free time! Here I am subscribing to yet another Simon Whistler channel. 😂
The Las Vegas Strip didn't even get an honorable mention. RIP The Dunes, The Landmark, The Sands, Mandaly Bay, The Alladin, El Rancho, Desert Inn, Bourbon Street, Castaways, The Stardust, New Frontier, and The Boardwalk, At least we have other youtube videos of the actual implosions and circus acts that went on with the implosions.
Another great video, who does not like watching stuff blow up, non terrorist related, & the bigger the better. On a side note, does anyone, including Simon, know how many videos he has done on all his channels ?, it's just on my bucket list to watch them all, if we're all in this bloody lock down we may as well enjoy it.
My stepfather worked for, (and eventually retired from,) the Construction demolition company that demolished the Kingdome (Turner Construction,) here, in Seattle. (Fun fact; The implosion set the Guinness World Record for the largest structure demolished by volume, at the time.) 👍 But, that's not exactly surprising since I was been born and raised here, in Seattle. Naturally, I've had many opportunities, especially as a kid, to see the occasional Mariner's and Seahawks games at the Kingdome, and one Metallica and Guns N Roses concert too lol before they finally blew the place up. 😇 (Having been born in 1976, we shared something in common, the Kingdome and I, and I would attend many Mariner's games there, always waiting out back afterwards as a kid by the busses for autographs,) mostly in the late 80's, early 90's.) We actually attended the very first opening Mariner's game at their new retractable roof "T-Mobile Park," Stadium, (back when it was called; "Safeco Field.") which, along with the Seahawks' new stadium; "Lumen Field," (originally called; "CenturyLink Field Arena,") were both built pretty much on the old footprint of the Kingdome. ✌
The evolution of your enunciation and presentation has been quite a pleasure to witness. I have no doubt that someday you will be paid lots of money for the way you pronounce Empire
I had always thought demolitions were great but had never bothered to watch one until Atlanta destroyed their dome stadium. I took my 8yo down to a friends apartment with a rooftop deck about a block away overlooking the stadium. Awesome!
1964 - "This just in from the White House. President Johnson sends the word to demolish the obsolete nuclear labs at Oak Ridge, Tennessee." 2014 - "Well boys, that's the last load. President Johnson would be proud. It took only FIFTY years."
It continued to operate in other capacities until the 1980's I think. And the site was heavily contaminated with radiation, the building was full of asbestos and was more than a mile long. Although that's the pace of government for ya when there are no outside economic incentives involved.
It's ironic how they completely fail to catch the fact that thermite is never used in actual demolitions. A tendency to drip straight down and a comparatively slow release of energy makes it a very poor demolitions explosive.
As a lifelong Seattleite, I remember the kingdome demolition pretty well. Yep, they had just spent a ton of money trying to repair it, only to tear it down. Saw many a Mariners baseball game there as a child.
Speaking of demolishing, have you already done a geographic about Las Vegas? I know demolishing the old hotels for the new ones is always neat to talk about.
8:15 "largest clock in the world" ... there is a list Sir! The Abraj al Bait awaits... one of my favorite pieces of horology ever produced, along with the clock face of Big Ben.
Washington State got 3 demolitions mentioned! Another fun fact about the Kingdom is it was the largest free span concrete dome in the world when built. Growing up I saw the original Bigfoot there for the first time as well as many sports and music events. - I was there in 2000 about 8 blocks away on the roof of a 5 story when building when they demolished it. Holy sh!t the pressure wave that hit us was intense. The dust plume went thousands of feet in the air. Quite the spectacular event.
I was at the Kingdome implosion. We were parked on the grassy knoll by I5. My sister had planned the trip, as she wanted to get it on film for her photography class. She aced the project, ofc. and the photos were amazing! I still have a small film cannister of the dust that filled the city that day, as there was considerably more than they had accounted for!
Very informative videos. I would really appreciate hearing you speak in customary measuring terms. I'm willing to bet that the vast majority of viewers live in the USA. You could easily put metric equivalents as a ticker tape along the bottom of the screen. Thanks
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1:10 - Chapter 1 - Singer building
2:55 - Chapter 2 - Deutsche bank building
4:20 - Chapter 3 - The J.L Hudson building
5:15 - Chapter 4 - Afe turm
6:30 - Chapter 5 - Elwha & glines canyon dams
7:50 - Chapter 6 - Landmark tower
9:00 - Chapter 7 - The kingdome
10:20 - Chapter 8 - K 25
11:25 - Chapter 9 - Zhuan yang viaduct
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I'm not normally unfaithful, but. 😏
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Biggest demolition in history has to be Simon's demolition of Dany and Sam's chances for escape.
#freedanny
Shhh, don't tell anybody.
Still waiting for the mega project video of Simon’s RUclips career
I think that would be a multipart video for each channel
That should be Business Blaze video :D
@@Reynevan100 Biographics surely?
Right? I don't understand Simon Whistler - I love his content, but the number of channels he's featured on is perplexing. I've always wondered if he makes these channels himself or is a sort of "freelance RUclips host" that gets paid by the creators of these channels to host the videos.
@@igelbeatz both!
If you like BIG explosions you should do an episode on the removal of "Ripple Rock", at one time the largest non-nuclear explosion ever. Ripple Rock was a navigational obstacle in Discovery channel between Vancouver Island and mainland British Columbia... after many attemps they finally blew it up in 1958 by tunneling under the sea floor and up into the rock, filling it with explosives and KABLOOEY
Wow looking this up ASAP. Thanks!
Edit: there's an awesome old documentary sort of video on it. Super fascinating, worth looking up
also the explosion of war munitions and bunkers on the island of Helgoland. largest "controlled" man-made non-nuclear explosion
@@amon_san cool
Sounds lit 🔥 🧨
@@jarnold1789 ya pretty cool. I live a short distance from the area and have hiked the trail to the top of the bluff overlooking the channel.... on the way up you pass lots of large boulders (like car sized) that look out of place but only after I watched the video did I realize they were blasted up onto the bluff....
The Most Visually Compelling Topic with the Fewest Video Clips.
Now you need to do the worst examples of "controlled" demolitions, the ones that went spectacularly wrong... :P
But do it on Business Blaze.
I was present for the Royal Canberra Hospital "Implosion" that sent 100kg+ chunks of steel and concrete serveral kilometers across the lake and raining the spectators, killing poor schoolgirl Katie Bender
I'd say 9-11 would be at the top of that list.
@@smartycat528 Yeah I remember the talk of the Royal Canberra being "rotten and unfit for expansion" except that it was designed to have ten more floors for expansion... rotten thing to do to a perfectly good hospital....
Maybe he can include footage of actual control demolitions like WTC in that video.
No conspiracy theories. For the Deutchebank building, if you get one of "those" insurance adjusters... His job is to minimize the size of the claim saying things like.... there's nothing wrong with these bricks, they can be used again. Nothing wrong here that a little paint wouldn't fix. Tell you what, I've got a glass guy, tell me how many panes of broken glass you have & he'll deliver some new onea. Is there any other damage? How many gallons of paint do you think you neef? I've got a paint guy too.
Sounds like your typical insurance company's tactics
You may be our "host" here, but we all know you're always our boy with the blaze.
Another great vid.
I remember being a kid and going to a Mariners baseball game in the Kingdome. I also remember images of the demolition being front page on the newspapers. There was a lot of sentiment that it was a waste to blow the Kingdome up, so the designers of the new arena taking its place hyped up the new, retractable roof.
I watched seahawk & mariner games, I went to rv sales and antique sales, and who knows what else from 1980 to mid 1990's and i've been in the new stadiums they erected in it's place, I liked the baseball stadium which now sites on the original spot, wasn't so enamored with the football stadium.
Some of my youngest memories are of my dad taking me to mariners games at the kingdome. Listening to the stadium announcer call Ken griffey Jr. to bat, the smoke from the fireworks when a home run was hit... and me with my signed griffey mitt knee high to a grasshopper in the upper deck, waiting excitedly for the wave to come by. I cried watching them bring it down on tv. Safeco is great but it was never the same.
I never went to any sporting events there. But I was there for the implosion on my way to work. So much dust.
I love that Simon switches between metric and imperial measurements between channels.
9:54 The King dome was the largest structure to ever be demolished,
but we're just gonna show a still photo.
Might be me, but others have noted that the Kingdome was a massive concrete structure in an area where snow isn’t much of a threat, but the HHHumphrey Metrodome in MSP was almost like a giant hefty bag over a metal girder structure. Both were built around the same time, (mid-70s)
Honourable mention to Top Gear’s effort to demolish a Toyota HiLux
They tried not to kill it
@G Petro no they're not. Try again
@G Petro the Hilux is much closer though also not the same thing as the Tacoma. Google is your friend, use it
@J D yeah mate, I don't wanna be rude but Tacoma's/Tundras aren't Hiluxes. They're much bigger than a Hilux, although sort of similar. It's sort of the bigger, more upmarket, 'americanised' version of a true hilux
@@jamestoomer1330
We have Hiluxs here in America, as well. We just call them Toyota “Trucks”. They sell very well on the secondary market.
"The Kingdome had a seating capacity of 59,000 for baseball ..." Oh, how optimistic the architects were about the prospects of the Mariners.
The mariners had some pretty amazing teams in the kingdome friend. Griffey, Randy Johnson, Jay buhner, Edgar martinez... some of the best players ever to touch the field imo. The dome was often packed, and when the wave came by it was like a force of nature. Was a hell of a place to watch a game.
@@thermitelogic Nothing but love for the Kingdome here. Even in the dark days of the 80s it was always great to go to a big league ballgame and have my grandfather teach me box score. We were there for Gaylord Perry's 300th win in '82. It was a dark time from a win/loss perspective, but they never cared if you jumped seats after a few innings and the grub was cheap.
Back when they played in the kingdome the mariners were good for the only time in their 43 years of existence lol
The info and lack of ads is incomparable against other infotainment videos on all of your channels love it
My grandfather designed an earthen dam for his creak because he wanted it for irrigation and he wanted one that would eventually ware itself out - preferably not too much longer than the rest of his life. But before Spartanburg County gave him the permits he had an accident that forced him to move back to the northeast. If he and my grandmother remained in South Carolina it would have been a dam that would have demolished itself.
I was at an Implosion in Atlanta, GA once. It was midway during a pub crawl that included over 150 people. Half of us got lost because the building they brought down was a landmark we had been using. We had no idea it was going to happen. I felt a bit like Hitchhikers guide lol
My dad was a firefighter in Newark, NJ when I was growing up. The fire department had to be present for any demolitions. He took me and my sister to those demolitions all the time. I loved it. Maybe that's why I love tearing sh💩t up. I'm good at it.
Simon, how many channels would you like on RUclips?
Simon: Yes
This dude is everywhere 😂
His empire is so big.. it needed to be broken up to a number of sub channels...
Now Simon...yes is not the correct answer here...
Simon: It is now
I worked on the 38th floor in the Deutschebank Building (at the time, it was still the Bankers Trust Building, 130 Liberty Street, or 1 Liberty Plaza). My desk had a panoramic view of NY harbor, Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty (I was there for the Statue's Centennial celebration with the parade of tall ships, and went in that evening to look DOWN at the fireworks!), Verrazano Bridge, Staten Island, Governor's Island etc. We had a satellite data center across the Hudson in New Jersey. I left there in 1992, a few months before the truck bomb was set off in the parking garage of the Trade Center. When the south tower came down it put a 24-floor gash down the front of the building, about one office deep.
We had a skybridge to the WTC plaza and would hang out for lunch or shop in the hug underground complex that was under the WTC. When they took the building down it was the largest floor-by-floor dismantling of a building ever done...there was no room around it for any type of explosive demolition.
You're an awesome guy, Mr Whistler. I'm gonna end up spending my last twenty five years grazing general knowledge on a comfy chair just like my dad and you're gonna be the first place I look every time.
6:29 "All dams have negative effects on the aquatic environment where they're located. But these adverse effects are usually canceled out by the benefits of hydroelectric power and flood control."
Um...I'm no fish scientist, but I doubt very much the fish agree with that assessment, Simon. The salmon electric bills are already pretty low.
Yeah I dunno, those underwater plasma screens are pretty inefficient. Plus, you know, refrigerators have never been all that great. The seals are a nightmare, having to keep all that water out. Those lying Pacific bastards have always been shifty about how much it costs to run the average salmon household. I'll take the reports from their Atlantic cousins much more seriously, at least they're more honest about the cost of living. They report that it's the lights that are the real killer when it comes to the bills. They're been looking into LED lighting, but it keeps burning their retinas.....
Yeah I know. That last one was terrible.
dude simon its crazy how many channels you have I literally follow them all, my whole family does, my moms freakin loves you
WTC 7, 1 and 2 on the same day is the record. Doesn't matter who did it or why.
2 planes 3 buildings i mean...
Those weren't controlled.
@@jbrisby So you're saying that all three buildings fell like houses of cards because of wind and no human causes?
@@jbrisby So you're saying that they were accidents.
@@jbrisby So WTC 7 collapsing in it's own footprint, not being hit by a plane, accidentally fell. Got it.
>>Mr. Whistler: Good show! I too, love a decent demo (too bad about Singer and the other architecturally brilliant projects). >>Speaking of which, how is Notre Dame and France's efforts at re-building it? Might this be a subject for Side Projects? There is surely a great deal of history.
Warmly Yada, Yada, Yada.
I am glad that you started this new channel.
Sad Story: In 1997 In Canberra Australia I went to a controlled demolition of a hospital, it was on a small island in a lake (small lake).
It was a big public event, I was there fairly close.
The explosion went wrong, and it was not contained, large chunks of rock and steal were ejected from the explosion and you could see them splashing into the lake, all around people in boats also watching.
I think about 12 people were struck and injured, and one young girl (12) was tragically killed (not far from me). Her name was Katie Bender she was killed instantly. (details are quite horrific).
From memory the company that did the implosion was called "Controlled Demolition".. Was a very sad time for a small city of 300,000 at the time.
Hey can you do one of the Forth rail and road bridges please? It is three rather large bridges that are very close together and show some of the most iconic bridge types.
Clicked on this so damn fast that I punched a hole clear through my phone. 💥
How about the biggest uncontrolled demolitions (not by terrorists, definitely not by terrorists) more like demolitions that have gone wrong (hopefully without people getting hurt)
If they went wrong most likely someone got hurt
@@eagonten: Not necessarily. There are all sorts of videos of structures collapsing only partially, or falling the wrong way, or failing to collapse altogether. And then everyone's just standing there awkwardly (usually at a safe distance), while the contractor has to figure out a safe way to demolish the rest of the structure without losing too much money.
Yea there is some really good failed demos .
Like chemical plant explosions.
That list would be mostly fireworks/ammunition factories or dumps, I suspect.
I love when your new pages are still small because you’re more comfortable cussing a ton
😂 And who has more RUclips channels than this guy, I love it
No conspiracy when there are FACTS !
The implosion of the Kingdome was expected to set off minor earthquakes. The University of Washingtons’ Seismology Department set up sensors allover the region to record the results. All those tiny earthquakes that got triggered gave a lot of insight into the local fault lines.
The kinda topics you talk about are rare ....sometimes I don't know I wanna watch some these things until you put it to mind
I've been copy & pasting the below message for ages on your other channel, Geographics. This is a fascinating place with so much history and so many stories to tell, not least our own wedding there in 2005! I don't want to have to be spamming TWO of your channels now! Allegendly! OG Blaze reference there!
Simon, please could you possibly do a video of the Rosslyn Chapel?
This place is so worthy of a video! Building commenced in 1456 and took many years to complete, despite it's relatively small size. The main reason was the sheer volume of intricate carvings within. Virtually every square inch has been carved with symbols both Christian as well as Pagan, depictions from the bible and even a type of corn from America that pre-dates Columbus' supposed discovery.
Two aspects that must be mentioned when discussing Rosslyn are that the Holy Grail is alleged by some to be hidden there, as portrayed in the Dan Brown novel The Da Vinci Code with Tom Hanks playing the lead role in the film.
The other aspect is The Apprentice Pillar. The Master Mason carved his pillar (on the left as you look down the aisle) and apparently had to go away on some other business only to discover on his return the Apprentice mason had done his own 'freestyle' work on a pillar to the right. The apprentice's pillar was such a thing of beauty the Master mason killed the apprentice out of jealousy!
This is such an amazing place with so much history and so many stories I honestly think Geographics should do a video on it.
I live in Jacksonville, Fl, and was able to watch the demolition of the old Veteran's memorial collysium, and the cooling towers at the old power plant. It is exteemely satisfying to watch as it happened.
Lol your forgetting 911
I, too, LOVE controlled demolition videos! My son and I used to watch explosions gone wrong type videos all the time, too.
Great video Simon. Why didn’t you show more of the buildings actually blowing up? That’s the best part
Because he's becoming addicted to the sound of his own voice
Really enjoy the style and presentation of these Simon 👍🍻
There was a controlled demolition of high rise flats many years ago in the Gorbals Glasgow. It was due to happen at 11am so I went down with a hangover. They pushed the blast back two hours and when it happened I just clenched myself tightly. An elderly lady was killed by debris.
Thanks for saving my lunch break you guys. Keep it up!
I like how they Side Project has a TopTenz feel to it. Stay awesome Simon!
While living in Las Vegas for 20 years I was able to witness the implosion of several old casinos. It's a very impressive experience.
Mike Rowe = interesting cable programs
Simon Whistler = interesting RUclips content
This is a great channel idea, extremely flexible. You can also cover iconic objects as well on this channel.
I watched the Hudson Building go down. It was a very sad day as Hudson's was a major icon in Detroit, especially at Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Alright, five channels it is my man! You now dominate my feed. Thank you.
I really enjoy this channel :) I enjoy your story time videos a lot actually!
I grew up in a house near a closed power plant from the 60s and when I was in highschool the city decided to have a controlled demolition and it was amazing to see the towers just topple
Do you think you could do a video on the Nevada-Class Battleships as both ships had interesting careers. One of which USS Nevada tried to escape Pearl Harbor, fought at D-Day , Iwo Jima, and Okinawa, and survived 2 atomic bombs. I would say that's a mega ship. Awesome video. Hope more videos are coming.
No love for the Pontiac Silver dome which has a better implosion record than the Detroit Lions.
Got to give Credit to the Sander Hall demolition in Cincinnati for the sake of it not only being one of the largest ever implosions, but for the MASSIVE asbestos cloud that washed over thousands of spectators who were standing too close.
Hell, the entire story of that building is interesting as fuck thanks to how much of a disaster it was. It was the youngest building to ever be imploded, after having been demolished only like 10 years after it's completion.
Super interesting stuff. Thanks Simon :)
3:30 Simon's greatest moment on the internet, bar none.
Does it effect the watch time if I watch at 2x speed? (Yall should try it, he becomes Simon The Chipmunk)
For comedic value this is glorious!
Simon, I hope there is a part 2 of this video covering controlled implosions GONE WRONG. Yes, seeing them work correctly is great, but seeing the explosions go off and the building is still standing is better and a bit funny. This is even better when it takes more than 2 tries to implode the structure.
I saw the Rolling Stones in the Seattle Kingdome upfront on the floor in 1981, one of the best of many concerts over my life!
About time you started another channel! I was wondering what you were doing with all your free time! Here I am subscribing to yet another Simon Whistler channel. 😂
Good job as usual!
I remember as a kid watching the King Dome coming down
Always down to watch things go boom.
I love no nonsense Simon!
The Las Vegas Strip didn't even get an honorable mention. RIP The Dunes, The Landmark, The Sands, Mandaly Bay, The Alladin, El Rancho, Desert Inn, Bourbon Street, Castaways, The Stardust, New Frontier, and The Boardwalk, At least we have other youtube videos of the actual implosions and circus acts that went on with the implosions.
Another great video, who does not like watching stuff blow up, non terrorist related, & the bigger the better. On a side note, does anyone, including Simon, know how many videos he has done on all his channels ?, it's just on my bucket list to watch them all, if we're all in this bloody lock down we may as well enjoy it.
I remember going to Mariners and Seahawk games in the Kingdome, me and my dad went and watched the demo from I-5... we had tears in our eyes that day.
My stepfather worked for, (and eventually retired from,) the Construction demolition company that demolished the Kingdome (Turner Construction,) here, in Seattle.
(Fun fact; The implosion set the Guinness World Record for the largest structure demolished by volume, at the time.) 👍
But, that's not exactly surprising since I was been born and raised here, in Seattle. Naturally, I've had many opportunities, especially as a kid, to see the occasional Mariner's and Seahawks games at the Kingdome, and one Metallica and Guns N Roses concert too lol before they finally blew the place up. 😇
(Having been born in 1976, we shared something in common, the Kingdome and I, and I would attend many Mariner's games there, always waiting out back afterwards as a kid by the busses for autographs,) mostly in the late 80's, early 90's.)
We actually attended the very first opening Mariner's game at their new retractable roof "T-Mobile Park," Stadium, (back when it was called; "Safeco Field.")
which, along with the Seahawks' new stadium; "Lumen Field," (originally called; "CenturyLink Field Arena,")
were both built pretty much on the old footprint of the Kingdome. ✌
White LED lights vs. anti-reflective glasses coating with a green bias: GO!
I'm from Detroit. I recall when the J. L. Hudson building went bye-bye. It also damaged a section of the People Mover track in the process.
The evolution of your enunciation and presentation has been quite a pleasure to witness. I have no doubt that someday you will be paid lots of money for the way you pronounce Empire
How many channels does this man have?
Pretty sure Simon is a robot. No living human can produce so much good content on so many successful channels simultaneously.
Got to attend a demo in Houston. No one expected the billowing clouds of dust to reach the crowd. But it did.
I had always thought demolitions were great but had never bothered to watch one until Atlanta destroyed their dome stadium. I took my 8yo down to a friends apartment with a rooftop deck about a block away overlooking the stadium. Awesome!
1964 - "This just in from the White House. President Johnson sends the word to demolish the obsolete nuclear labs at Oak Ridge, Tennessee."
2014 - "Well boys, that's the last load. President Johnson would be proud. It took only FIFTY years."
It continued to operate in other capacities until the 1980's I think. And the site was heavily contaminated with radiation, the building was full of asbestos and was more than a mile long. Although that's the pace of government for ya when there are no outside economic incentives involved.
You forgot the world trade center buildings in 2001....
Here's a single word that will fuel the conspiracy theorists: Thermite
It's ironic how they completely fail to catch the fact that thermite is never used in actual demolitions. A tendency to drip straight down and a comparatively slow release of energy makes it a very poor demolitions explosive.
@@Codraroll Bah, who cares about nonsense like facts? You need to wake up, sheeple! 😂 /s
(Man do I hate those people...)
That was cool as hell. Great topic!!!
The Singer Tower is an example of why we needed architectural heritage protection back then. Such a shame.
Most of these are ugly AF though 😂
Having been to Helgoland, I had hoped for it to feature.
Get on it Simon! Please!
As a lifelong Seattleite, I remember the kingdome demolition pretty well. Yep, they had just spent a ton of money trying to repair it, only to tear it down. Saw many a Mariners baseball game there as a child.
Speaking of demolishing, have you already done a geographic about Las Vegas? I know demolishing the old hotels for the new ones is always neat to talk about.
Gold Star Mr. Simon!
8:15 "largest clock in the world" ... there is a list Sir! The Abraj al Bait awaits... one of my favorite pieces of horology ever produced, along with the clock face of Big Ben.
Washington State got 3 demolitions mentioned! Another fun fact about the Kingdom is it was the largest free span concrete dome in the world when built. Growing up I saw the original Bigfoot there for the first time as well as many sports and music events.
- I was there in 2000 about 8 blocks away on the roof of a 5 story when building when they demolished it. Holy sh!t the pressure wave that hit us was intense. The dust plume went thousands of feet in the air. Quite the spectacular event.
Seeing huge structures collapse perfectly vertically is so satisfying to watch
This is my kind of topic!! Looking forward to #2 & #3 & #4 & #5.........
Not enough explosions!!! 😝
"The Kingdome...around 24 years and hosted COUNTLESS events". Okay Simon... CANCELED! - Sincerely , A Seattle resident
You should do a video on the largest explosions caused by conventional explosives
Not enough footage of giant things come a'tumblin down!
People seem to be vey wasteful. Have you ever done a video on the the Walled City of Kowloon? Fascinating example of ingenuity and resourcefulness.
I was at the Kingdome implosion. We were parked on the grassy knoll by I5. My sister had planned the trip, as she wanted to get it on film for her photography class. She aced the project, ofc. and the photos were amazing! I still have a small film cannister of the dust that filled the city that day, as there was considerably more than they had accounted for!
If "Financial Place Incorporated" isn't a thing, it really needs to be.
Simon. Stop having so many channels that I have to watch 🤣
Very informative videos. I would really appreciate hearing you speak in customary measuring terms. I'm willing to bet that the vast majority of viewers live in the USA. You could easily put metric equivalents as a ticker tape along the bottom of the screen. Thanks
Last controlled demolition I witnessed via television, was WTC 9/11.
Episodes like this make me think of some top tenz channel.
The biggest demolition in the world is my life and heart
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I like watching your videos because of the lack of ads keep it up
Nobody better mention nine eleven two thousand and one. The similarities of physics might birth more truth. That's where rabbits dig holes in reality.
This reminds me of that tragedy