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Originally Posted by
awright
I hate to show my ignorance of mechanics, but I do not understand how cutting the guy wires results in a vertical collapse straight down into its footprint instead of starting to tip over away from the cut wires and then buckling into a tangled mass of steel over a large area. I was not able to detect any explosive event at the base of the tower in the video. ]
I would think there would be no need to cut the guy wires. Rather, I would have expected that a small array of explosive charges or cutters like used on the wire anchor in the video at the tower base woulld better control the descent of the tower over a minimum area.
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