Demolishing a high-rise typically involves explosives kicking up enormous clouds of dust, but demolishing a building one level at a time can be remarkably quiet and clean:
(Hat tip to our Slovenian guest.)
Demolishing a high-rise typically involves explosives kicking up enormous clouds of dust, but demolishing a building one level at a time can be remarkably quiet and clean:
(Hat tip to our Slovenian guest.)
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I’m going to go out on a wild limb and say this is not the most cost efficient of processes.
I very much hope the Western environmentalists don’t start pushing for this as mandatory.
Neal Stephenson, Anathem:
That’s a great quote, JJ – is the rest of the book that good?
I think, after a second reading, it is my favorite Stephenson book.
Agreed about Anathem.
It’s by far my favorite Stephenson book.