Huge explosion rocks uptown Manhattan - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Yellowamoeba;44215284]So THAT'S where that missing plane got to![/QUOTE] people still make these jokes?

[QUOTE=SonicHitman;44215344]people still make these jokes?[/QUOTE] What jokes? Dark ones? Dark humour is pretty much universal.

[QUOTE=Supermatic200;44215211][IMG]http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1718845.1394634610!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/explosion-east-harlem.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] Why does the building in the bottom picture look so cleanly sliced?

[QUOTE=Berkin;44215442]Why does the building in the bottom picture look so cleanly sliced?[/QUOTE] It was a cyborg ninja attack.

[QUOTE=mchapra;44215486]It was a cyborg ninja attack.[/QUOTE] It was a serious question.

[QUOTE=Berkin;44215521]It was a serious question.[/QUOTE] it has something to do with the way the support structures are built

This was obviously made by "terrorists", so the USA have a reason to invade an another country in the middle east.

[QUOTE=Berkin;44215521]It was a serious question.[/QUOTE] Probably because it is actually a different building, and therefore had its own structural supports. When the building came down after the explosion it was probably left standing. The windows where it meets the other building appear to already be half-windows, so it sort of looks like they where sliced in half.

[QUOTE=Berkin;44215442]Why does the building in the bottom picture look so cleanly sliced?[/QUOTE] From google maps, it looks like the explosion followed the perfect slit going down from the windows. [IMG]http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/1650/skje.png[/IMG]

[QUOTE=freaka;44215552]This was obviously made by "terrorists", so the USA have a reason to invade an another country in the middle east.[/QUOTE] It must be so interesting to live in your version of the world.

it was a gas main explosion, it should be noted in the OP... [url]http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/uptown/building-collapse-harlem-article-1.1718814[/url]

Given the magnitude of the explosion, this could have gone much worse

It was a gas explosion if you dont know already. ConEdison was called out before the explosion happened

[QUOTE=Killuah;44212924]As long as it's not a dirty bomb or some shit...[/QUOTE] I don't think you know how dirty bombs work.

Apparently the owner of this place racked up like $2k in fines for building violations he hasn't fixed over the past 2 years, this was just a culmination of bad building maintenance and a lack of responsibility. People had been smelling gas for weeks and he apparently kept telling them it was not the building (read from the news article posted earlier)

chaos dunk

[QUOTE=ewitwins;44215666]Apparently the owner of this place racked up like $2k in fines for building violations he hasn't fixed over the past 2 years, this was just a culmination of bad building maintenance and a lack of responsibility. People had been smelling gas for weeks and he apparently kept telling them it was not the building (read from the news article posted earlier)[/QUOTE] Well, he's gonna fry now.

nein

It's in Manhattan! Alien invasion, no less.

[QUOTE=Berkin;44215442]Why does the building in the bottom picture look so cleanly sliced?[/QUOTE] line of sight optical illusion, there's a wall from the collapsed building still standing and the top of it lines up with the corner of the next building down. That's why there's a strangely clean line through a window with an apparent wall where there should be a room [t]http://i.imgur.com/Z7KFfL7.png[/t] the wall likely survived because not only does it have load-bearing structure, but it was likely attached to the building next door for extra reinforcement, in which the adjacent wall is also supportive. You've got two high-strenght walls acting as one unit. if structure inside the collapsed building was damaged (like a few supporting walls or even the central stair/elevator shaft), the weight of everything above it would pull a lot of shit inward and down, but given the exterior walls aren't built to withstand horizontal forces, the floors/walls attached to it were much easier to break off than the wall itself from another supporting structure

Apparently the explosion was so loud my mom heard it all the way in the Bronx.

I hope no one got a piano wire mythbuster'd through them.

Aren't they supposed to add a smelly substance to natural gas so you can smell it when it's leaking?

[QUOTE=godfatherk;44217392]Aren't they supposed to add a smelly substance to natural gas so you can smell it when it's leaking?[/QUOTE] Apparently nearby residents did, for several days. But nobody reported it or gave a shit because--well, uptown Manhattan--things will smell funny from time to time, it's a busy place.

Just heard on the news that the same thing almost happened in Minneapolis, which is really close to where I live. Luckily they stopped it in time. Holy shit.

[QUOTE=Berkin;44215442]Why does the building in the bottom picture look so cleanly sliced?[/QUOTE] Some combination of cinderblock and asbestos, I'd imagine.

Hopefully the building that replaces it will have similar architecture and not the cheap steel boxes.

For those still confused about the building, here's another angle I took from a video on BBC: [img]http://puu.sh/7tpoL.jpg[/img]

some dude in something awful claims to have worked for Consolidated Edison and he had this to say [QUOTE]Apparently a gas leak was reported shortly before the explosion. Careless residents, haphazard building, and lovely Con Edison maintenance causes a major disaster in Manhattan once every few years or so. When I was working there a major steam pipe junction blew and sent a column of steam taller than the Chrysler Building shooting up like a volcano in the middle of Midtown. ... Not only that, but until the beginning of the 20th Century, there were three different power companies providing electricity, gas, and steam heat to NYC. Eventually the three merged together becoming Consolidated Edison (ConEd) but for years and years before that there were three different companies laying three different gauges of pipes all throughout New York, and most of the maps that they made have been lost or destroyed in the intervening years. [B]ConEd literally doesn't have a clue as to what certain portions of their pipe networks are made of and precisely where they're laid in the street.[/B] [B]So there are pipes a century old running under the streets of one of the largest cities in the world carrying high-pressure steam all over the place and some portions of the map just read "???"[/B].[/QUOTE] if true, its terrifying.

[QUOTE=Wizards Court;44220118]some dude in something awful claims to have worked for Consolidated Edison and he had this to say if true, its terrifying.[/QUOTE] Pretty par for the course. It's why manhole covers shoot fifty feet into the sky on occasion.