gotta say as someone with experience in this field the building that didn't fall all the way down is going to be a major pain in the ass to take care of. i mean it is china so they probably won't bat an eye at sending someone into that death trap... but here in the states, if you try to drop a building at it just squats and leans... your insurance company just dropped you and you probably just went out of business.
remember most of these high rise demo's require you to be out of there quickly so the rest of the area can get back to business as usual asap.
a building left leaning/squatted like that means everything stays shut down till you can figure out a way to deal with it.
I can speak a little bit to this. I have a several (non CCP) contacts who are experienced in dealing with China.
China will frequently pay someone for a job that is entirely pointless just to say that they have low unemployment. I can give two examples that a friend of mine witnessed (both of which annoyed the hell out of him):
First, three men who were paid to move rocks, one moving them up a hill and across a road, one moving them down a hill and across a road, and one stopping traffic when one of those two crossed said road while moving said rocks. Just three men, two piles of rocks a hundred meters apart, and some wheel barrows, all holding up traffic between my bud's apartment and his place of work for the entire two years he was contracted there.
Second, a person paid to stop people from taking their trash out outside of allowed hours. In this particular area (maybe all of the mainland), a rule was put in place that peons could only take their trash out while an attendant was present at the trash location, "to ensure that recyclables and compostables were not mixed in with landfill trash". This attendant worked basically whenever they wanted, shifting hours around different weeks. Naturally, people ignored the rule and would take their trash out when there was no attendant. So, the govt hired people to guard the trash location to stop people from taking out their trash (but not to sort it at convenient hours).
So, all this is to agree with comments that China will absolutely send in hoards of "unimportant" people to clean these buildings up, with utter disregard for safety or reason. In their eyes, they have created employment.
you're talking months of prep work ripping apart walls, jackhammering out concrete to get down to the rebar, making weakening cuts into the superstructure in order to allow for the placement of cutting charges...
for example if you have 10 supporting members you need to sever in order to bring something down, and the building is gutted... you can remove 5 or 6 of them with a cutting torch then place cutting charges on the remaining system.
according to the link they used 85,000 charges... which seems a bit overinflated... they may have been counting the individual bags or tubes of HE as "bombs" but i can't imagine rigging a job with 85,000 initiators and then running the det wires and det cord to connect them all back to a blasting box.
also it should be noted that in most blasts you don't initiate all of them at once, they are timed with some freaky precision to allow you to use gravity to your advantage...
for example, you'd want to blow out the connections at the top of a wall which pin it to a structure a fraction of a second before you blow the bottom to allow the structure to begin to fall but then kick the legs out from under it and let gravity do the rest.
the thing is you're dealing with an amount of mass and inertial forces most people can't wrap their minds around, TBH that building fell a long way before squatting and i was shocked to see anything made by the chinese withstand all those forces. usually when you get something that big moving it's fucking over with. those structures must be FULL of tensioned rebar to remain rigid like that. i'm actually shocked to see that.
anyway there's no chance in hell this was done on the sly.
gotta say as someone with experience in this field the building that didn't fall all the way down is going to be a major pain in the ass to take care of. i mean it is china so they probably won't bat an eye at sending someone into that death trap... but here in the states, if you try to drop a building at it just squats and leans... your insurance company just dropped you and you probably just went out of business.
remember most of these high rise demo's require you to be out of there quickly so the rest of the area can get back to business as usual asap.
a building left leaning/squatted like that means everything stays shut down till you can figure out a way to deal with it.
China will just hit it with a missle
Probably given to them by Biden
I can speak a little bit to this. I have a several (non CCP) contacts who are experienced in dealing with China.
China will frequently pay someone for a job that is entirely pointless just to say that they have low unemployment. I can give two examples that a friend of mine witnessed (both of which annoyed the hell out of him):
First, three men who were paid to move rocks, one moving them up a hill and across a road, one moving them down a hill and across a road, and one stopping traffic when one of those two crossed said road while moving said rocks. Just three men, two piles of rocks a hundred meters apart, and some wheel barrows, all holding up traffic between my bud's apartment and his place of work for the entire two years he was contracted there.
Second, a person paid to stop people from taking their trash out outside of allowed hours. In this particular area (maybe all of the mainland), a rule was put in place that peons could only take their trash out while an attendant was present at the trash location, "to ensure that recyclables and compostables were not mixed in with landfill trash". This attendant worked basically whenever they wanted, shifting hours around different weeks. Naturally, people ignored the rule and would take their trash out when there was no attendant. So, the govt hired people to guard the trash location to stop people from taking out their trash (but not to sort it at convenient hours).
So, all this is to agree with comments that China will absolutely send in hoards of "unimportant" people to clean these buildings up, with utter disregard for safety or reason. In their eyes, they have created employment.
IF a whitehat production, it could be specifically to break the economy more in the area.
How easy is it to make something like this happen?
lol, it's a MASSIVE undertaking.
you're talking months of prep work ripping apart walls, jackhammering out concrete to get down to the rebar, making weakening cuts into the superstructure in order to allow for the placement of cutting charges...
for example if you have 10 supporting members you need to sever in order to bring something down, and the building is gutted... you can remove 5 or 6 of them with a cutting torch then place cutting charges on the remaining system.
according to the link they used 85,000 charges... which seems a bit overinflated... they may have been counting the individual bags or tubes of HE as "bombs" but i can't imagine rigging a job with 85,000 initiators and then running the det wires and det cord to connect them all back to a blasting box.
also it should be noted that in most blasts you don't initiate all of them at once, they are timed with some freaky precision to allow you to use gravity to your advantage...
for example, you'd want to blow out the connections at the top of a wall which pin it to a structure a fraction of a second before you blow the bottom to allow the structure to begin to fall but then kick the legs out from under it and let gravity do the rest.
the thing is you're dealing with an amount of mass and inertial forces most people can't wrap their minds around, TBH that building fell a long way before squatting and i was shocked to see anything made by the chinese withstand all those forces. usually when you get something that big moving it's fucking over with. those structures must be FULL of tensioned rebar to remain rigid like that. i'm actually shocked to see that.
anyway there's no chance in hell this was done on the sly.
Thanks for the insight. That makes perfect sense.