EfreetSK@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoTIL Bologna was a city full of towers between the 12th and the 13th centurylemmy.worldimagemessage-square44linkfedilinkarrow-up1469arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up1462arrow-down1imageTIL Bologna was a city full of towers between the 12th and the 13th centurylemmy.worldEfreetSK@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square44linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareTooManyFoods@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·7 months agoSeems like it would be a nightmare to take them down. Demolition back then must have been pretty methodical, taking it apart from the top to bottom.
minus-squareranzispa@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·7 months agoMuch easier than that: just wait for a while and there won’t be no tower anymore. Either it falls down on its own or people come around to pick a few bricks and stones to build their own house.
minus-squareacockworkorange@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 months agoLook around them. It would have to be like that today too. Too crowded.
minus-squareBlumpkinhead@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·7 months agoAre you suggesting that this isn’t a real photograph of 12th century Bologna??
minus-squareacockworkorange@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 months agohttps://duckduckgo.com/?q=Bologna+towers&ia=images&iax=images Here are real images. Tell me how you can safely demolish those with explosives while guaranteeing it’s not going to topple over adjacent buildings.
minus-squareMinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 months agodemolish the adjacent buildings first
minus-squareacockworkorange@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 months agoUse the tower and demolish them all in one fell swoop! Demolitionists hate this one trick!
minus-squareMinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoone big explosion is less fun than a lot of little explosions and one big explosion
minus-squareLojcs@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·7 months agoI don’t know? But it’s definitely easier than what the picture in the post suggests
minus-squareacockworkorange@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down3·7 months agoMaybe just stick to the first sentence.
minus-squareLojcs@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·7 months ago? Demolishing 2 detached towers is definitely easier than 50 built directly on buildings.
minus-squareStarya67@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoTowers like this still exist in places like San Gimignano.
Seems like it would be a nightmare to take them down. Demolition back then must have been pretty methodical, taking it apart from the top to bottom.
Much easier than that: just wait for a while and there won’t be no tower anymore.
Either it falls down on its own or people come around to pick a few bricks and stones to build their own house.
Look around them. It would have to be like that today too. Too crowded.
Image isn’t real
Are you suggesting that this isn’t a real photograph of 12th century Bologna??
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Bologna+towers&ia=images&iax=images
Here are real images. Tell me how you can safely demolish those with explosives while guaranteeing it’s not going to topple over adjacent buildings.
demolish the adjacent buildings first
Use the tower and demolish them all in one fell swoop! Demolitionists hate this one trick!
one big explosion is less fun than a lot of little explosions and one big explosion
I don’t know? But it’s definitely easier than what the picture in the post suggests
Maybe just stick to the first sentence.
? Demolishing 2 detached towers is definitely easier than 50 built directly on buildings.
Towers like this still exist in places like San Gimignano.