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I Blew Up A 24 Story Building

Mark Rober

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Building imploded via Angry Birds game

They blew up a 24-story building using a giant Angry Birds game. The winner of a "Demolympics" competition got to trigger the implosion by hitting a specific target with a bowling ball.

  • ๐Ÿ’ฅ The building was imploded using controlled demolition techniques, with explosives weakening key structural points.
  • ๐ŸŽฏ The final trigger involved a giant Angry Birds setup where a bowling ball had to hit a specific pillar to detonate the main charges.
  • ๐Ÿ† A "Demolympics" competition between Mark Rober and Bam determined who would get to trigger the building's destruction.
  • ๐Ÿ—๏ธ The demolition process involved pre-weakening structural walls and using thousands of sticks of dynamite to leverage gravitational potential energy.
  • ๐Ÿ“น Over 20 security cameras inside the building captured the implosion in 4K.

A man in a hard hat looks shocked as a large building explodes behind him in a cloud of dust.