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Watch A Bridge Get Quickly And Neatly Demolished In This Timelapse
Video: This footage from a few years back shows a bridge in Bedfordshire, England getting demolished in less than 15 hours. Basically, a night’s work was all it took to vaporise a steel and concrete structure. It’s really neat to see the progression and to see all the machines working in tandem. It’s also just…
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Moving An Elephant Looks Absolutely Crazy
A small group of elephants who had been displaced have been butting heads with local villagers in a village in Daloa in the Ivorty Coast. The elephants have damaged crops, ruined homes, injured people and so forth. The villagers wanted to kill the elephants. Luckily for everyone though, the International Fund for Animal Welfare figured…
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Meet The Floating Super-Crane Building The Tappan Zee Bridge
At 100m, the crane stands taller than the Statue of Liberty, plus has a lifting capacity of 1800 tonnes. But what makes The Left Coast Lifter extra spectacular is that it operates by floating on a 117m barge powered by three diesel generators.
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Watch Construction Cranes Come To Life And Dance In A Fun Light Show
There are 42 tower cranes working together to build a brand new city district for more than 20,000 people in Vienna, Austria. It’s the biggest construction site in Europe right now. But it’s not always work work work for the cranes, they get to dance in a fun light show on their off day.