Men Love Explosions

There is one law about being a man that people should realize and that law would be that men love stuff that goes boom. Now, I am actually not talking about anything of a sexual nature here. The simple fact is that men tend to love things that explode. Also, for the most part, men all go through a period as children where they want to blow things up.

I make this point simply because I recently found a website with clips of nothing but buildings, bridges and smokestacks being demolished. For those of us who have always had a thing for making other things go boom this has to be the coolest job ever. Yes, you can have rock stars and movie stars and whatever other kind of stars but the guy who can hit a button and cause an building to go down and then get paid for it has to be some kind of star.

There is just something very cool about the whole thing. Yes, I know, there are also tragic demolitions and certain events in the not-too-distant past seemed to resemble one of these demolition explosions. I know that. I am also willing to concede that it is now far enough in the past that I can, at the very least, now once again sit in amazement at the site of old and abandoned buildings being brought down in that slow-motion descent followed by dust.

Apparently in China they just set a record, too, at least that’s what this particular website claims. They brought down sixteen buildings at once. The video for this has to be one of the coolest I have ever seen. Sixteen old apartment buildings in a small cluster all slowly falling to the side like gigantic dominoes is truly something to behold. Seeing the other camera angles where you see just how tiny these buildings were compared to the newer buildings around it makes you understand why this had to be done.