SEE IT HERE...the bridge is down
It didn't take more than a few seconds. Some flashes, a big muffled boom, and the arch of the Crown Point Bridge dropped into Lake Champlain shortly after 10 this morning. WCAX has a really cool slow-motion video of the demolition. It's after two takes of real-time.
posted by Martha Foley @ 12/28/2009 01:50:00 PM
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6 Comments:
hmmm.
I wish I could have seen it, to really appreciate the scale, but this will do.
Interesting how some man-made things seem to be in harmony with the natural space they occupy. The Crown Point bridge was truly harmonious. An amazing explosion but I feel sad.
Wow! Truly amazing how in a flash, this ey-pleasing bridge structure, which took thousands of man-hours to build, was destroyed in seconds.
Makes me realize how fragile and impermanent are the works of man-kind.
Then again, everything and everywhere on this planet is impermanent and subject to change -the oceans, deserts, mountains, valleys, cities - all life within and on planet earth is impermanet.
The planet changes its 'face' through time, and the creatures that dwell on earth create changes as well.
Buddhists will spend days making painstakingly beautiful mandalas, which then are swept away in a flash.
In Judeo-Christian terms, "from dust to dust, ashes to ashes."
Every time I learn of something destroyed that was built by the hands of human beings I am reminded of this.
Take for example, the Buddhas of Bamyan; huge statues built into a cliffside in the 500's CE. in central Afghanistan.
The people who did this amazing feat were working at an altitude of 8,200 ft.!
The Taliban destroyed all of them with dynamite in 2001.
and the twin towers fjthies
And most of the infrastructure of Iraq, anon., which had nothing to do with the attack on the "Twin Towers."
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