Not *quite* according to plan

A building in Turkey, 2009: the plan was for it to simply implode. Ooops.

[youtube 28xTAXgDB4E]

Without the CNN screen-crawlies:

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Chimney go THAT way:

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Or THAT way:

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Or maybe THAT way:

[youtube M3JT-IT60Es]

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D’oh:

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And this? This is just stupid:

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I’m pretty sure this isn’t how you park a boat:

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Nor this:

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A lesson: each of these was, in retrospect, pretty easily preventable. And yet they happened… bad planning, bad thinking, bad luck, whatever. This can happen to *any* projects. If demolitions experts can screw up knocking over a simply chimney, imagine how wrong a missile, an airplane or a starship can go.