Building implosion
In the controlled demolition industry, building implosion is the strategic placing of explosive material and timing of its detonation so that a structure collapses on itself in a matter of seconds, minimizing the physical damage to its immediate surroundings. Despite its terminology, building implosion also includes the controlled demolition of other structures, like bridges, smokestacks, towers, and tunnels. This is typically done to save time and money of what would otherwise be an extensive demolition process with construction equipment, as well as to reduce construction workers exposure to infrastructure that is in severe disrepair.
Building implosion, which reduces to seconds a process which could take months or years to achieve by other methods, typically occurs in urban areas[citation needed] and often involves large landmark structures.
The actual use of the term "implosion" to refer to the destruction of a building is a misnomer. This had been stated of the destruction of 1515 Tower in West Palm Beach, Florida. "What happens is, you use explosive materials in critical structural connections to allow gravity to bring it down.
The term "implosion" was coined by my grandmother back in, I guess, the '60s. It's a more descriptive way to explain what we do than "explosion". There are a series of small explosions, but the building itself isn't erupting outward. It's actually being pulled in on top of itself. What we're really doing is removing specific support columns within the structure and then cajoling the building in one direction or another, or straight down.
- βStacy Loizeaux, NOVA, December 1996
Building implosion techniques do not rely on the difference between internal and external pressure to collapse a structure. Instead, the goal is to induce a progressive collapse by weakening or removing critical supports; therefore, the building can no longer withstand gravity loads and will fail under its own weight
Numerous small explosives, strategically placed within the structure, are used to catalyze the collapse. Nitroglycerin, dynamite, or other explosives are used to shatter reinforced concrete supports. Linear shaped charges are used to sever steel supports. These explosives are progressively detonated on supports throughout the structure. Then, explosives on the lower floors initiate the controlled collapse.
A simple structure like a chimney can be prepared for demolition in less than a day. Larger or more complex structures can take up to six months of preparation to remove internal walls and wrap columns with fabric and fencing before firing the explosives.
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Star Wars nerds doing YouTube explaining videos of dumb expanded universe shit are SOOOO self referential. They assume you know what a bby is, I just heard a dude refer to some civilization with a dumb name as having 'some technology even more advanced than during the time of the empire.' And just leaves it at that. I've seen the movies, is the time of the empire the technological height of the galaxy? The original trilogy? Cause I kinda figured shit kinda looked worse than the prequels in cannon cause the empire was oppressive on the outside and a stagnate beurocracy on the inside with a sith center. Both visually and narratively I'm pretty sure we're shown a technological decline between the two eras and otherwise it's kinda giving the emperor some points. I just listen to this shit when I'm bored so I can tell my pal at work what star wars fans really believe.
i guess you could argue that the tech high of the empire was mostly seen in the military with things like the death star, super star destroyer and tie protector, but when it comes to civilian use tech its just the same as the republic if you really think about it, you could argue it kinda worst in the og trilogy because of the rising economic inequality forcing the working class mostly in the perifery to rely on old stuff instead of the high tech of the core worlds.
We've grown reliant on Imperial tech, and we've made ourselves vulnerable. There's a growing list of things we've known and forgotten, things they've pushed us to forget. Things like freedom- Nemik, Andor, the best thing star ears ever did and it isn't even close
man i should watch it some day, probably before season 2 since that will be the last star wars show in a while that wont be mandoverse
Andor is the single best piece of Star Wars media ever created and it isn't especially close
It's like Babylon 5 at its best level, Star Wars doesn't deserve Andor.
I don't recommend this one lightly. Put it at THE TOP of your watch list. First couple episodes are groundwork and won't seem special until retrospect, if you aren't hooked by the Aldani arc you literally aren't a communist and should be banned.
i will watch it eventually
Do it tomorrow. It's amazing. You will be like 'wow, this is amazing. Galaxybrain was quite the wordsmith in describing it. Woweez, this is like as good as The Wire somehow '
Ok i will
You're in for SUCH a good time. It's like they made a star wars specifically for communists.
Yea i read they based a plot on stalin's bank heist
There's that but like, also EVERYTHING. You will wonder how this was even made as anything let alone a star wars Disney property it's so blatantly pro revolution
It's insane to me that no one in the Star Wars fan community or an official source ever invented a better chronology system than that.
It's soooo absurd cause it only matters to us, not to anyone in universe
Everyone in the Star Wars Universe: "Damn, that Death Star battle was so cool, let's drop a new calendar."
The saving of the rebel base on Yavin 4 is culturally the same to them as the birth of christ.
This is why the dating system should have been based off of the most recent time a palpatine clone was killed. That way every 3 years the galaxy is resetting its calendar
Major mistake made in emperor strikes back to mewas making the emperor a force using guy as well. He should have just been evil as fuck and good at deception and otherwise been a normal guy.
Lucas's early idea for the Emperor was that he was a pawn of the corporate overlords who were really running the galaxy.
That's a better idea
IKR
If I had a time machine I'd travel to 1978 and replace George Lucas.
in canon they kinda try to dropped a canon calendar system in the form of the CRC but its only been used in a few stories
Yeah. That's never gonna catch on
they should have just used empire day as the new calendar honestly, more simple and believable
In canon the original trilogy starfighters are substantially better than prequel trilogy technology but it's largely because the imperial war machine kicked up and prioritized weapon's research and capital class fighter development/production over basically everything else (even lying to and then forcibly working research groups regarsing energy research that was really only meant to ever power the death star). This is the father of Rogue One's protagonist's plight if you'd forgotten. The empire also used tons of slavery and various dealings with regional feudal lords for mass raw resource extraction and the expanding colonization and resource extraction is what was fueling the entire war economy.
The core imperial worlds (and only really the aristocracy within them) were really the only beneficiaries of technological advances. The further you got from the imperial core the more explicit the relationship became "You and your planet exist to fuel our colonial war machine. Get in line or die."
In both new and old canon it's explained the Emperor basically backed the wrong camp (Grand Moff Tarkin) who decided having a superweapons and slow, large battleships, the Death Star and Star Destroyers/Super Star Destroyers respectively, were more important than a much, much greater quantity of better equipped and defended fighter group (the tie defender project).
I apologize to anyone reading this for me knowing it but I'm also glad to answer more questions if anyone is curious.
oh yea the Tarkin doctrine which was basically mass state terrorism vs thrawn that just wanted a effective colonial administration
Exactly. I haven't read enough of old Legends content to know about the Chiss Ascendancy in any real level of detail, but my tiny hope for new canon is that it provides more interesting storytelling foundation like Andor (and to a much lesser degree Ahsoka) than the other Disney content.
The further away they get from Lucas' work the more experimental the writing groups get (Dr. Aphra comics are a good time and The High Republic era has at least been novel albeit I feel it's dipping in quality currently).
I recognize Star Wars is slop, but I just hope they feel more empowered to try things rather than tell/re-tell "safe" stories.
I too like the slop and i wish they would take more risks like finally doing post sequel content, but then again mandoverse is the biggest risk they have taken. I wish they did more sith stories that arent about palpatine or vader.
I think the new canon thrawn book do explain a bit more of the chiss than the old legends ones if you havent read them
I liked the new Thrawn books a good bit, but I'm at the point now where my curiosity is with the Chiss Ascendancy itself and I want a story about it directly instead of Thrawn's navigation of his relationship to it and pacifying the Empire to its existence.
Star Wars needs new societies to explore and I think both Mandalore and the Chiss Ascendancy are great places to do that in interesting, novel ways.