{"id":4104,"date":"2011-11-04T21:54:12","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T01:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=4104"},"modified":"2023-04-29T12:48:24","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T16:48:24","slug":"tower-take-down-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2011\/11\/tower-take-down-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Tower take down video"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Since the inception of youtube, I&#8217;ve watched hundreds of this tower collapse videos. I don&#8217;t know why, it interests me. This video is of the <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.loran-history.info\/port_clarence\/port_clarence.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Coast Guard LORAN C tower<\/a> in <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Port_Clarence,_Alaska\" target=\"_blank\">Port Clarence, Alaska<\/a>. For what it&#8217;s worth, Port Clarence looks like a forlorn place, I am inclined to think my duty on Guam was rather nice in comparison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7zqj1hy9NS8\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was filmed from six separate camera locations, including one at the base. It demonstrates how most towers fall within 1\/3 of their constructed height. In this demolition, all three guy points are cut at the same time, removing the equalizing forces simultaneously. This would be the same situation as a catastrophic failure of a load-bearing tower member.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The best parts of this video are the camera view of the tower base, around 1:04-1:19, and the side view where the camera almost gets hit by a tower section, 2:02-2:13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I love physics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the inception of youtube, I&#8217;ve watched hundreds of this tower collapse videos. I don&#8217;t know why, it interests me. This video is of the Coast Guard LORAN C tower in Port Clarence, Alaska. For what it&#8217;s worth, Port Clarence looks like a forlorn place, I am inclined to think my duty on Guam was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2011\/11\/tower-take-down-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tower take down video<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-4104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-tower"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4104"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11686,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104\/revisions\/11686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}