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right at the last moment.

Those GMs from the '70s (aka "the malaise era&quot had their faults, but they contained lots of steel.

(Apostrophe use in "'70s" per The Grammar Guru: Sixties, 60’s or ’60s.)

That is an "o-shit" moment for the people responsible for getting it down.

Now it is almost too dangerous to try to do more controlled demo because they don't know if it is stable enough to go back in side to work on it.

I bet they are going to have to take it apart much more carefully now.

According to CNN, the charges did cut all the steel supports as planned. It just wasn't enough for an immediate implosion.

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/03/us/detroit-silverdome-implosion-attempt/index.html

To add to their nut theories.

building not collapse.

Now we are robbed of the perfect visual analogy of taxpayer money going up in smoke.

So much money is going into these new stadiums that makes the old ones obsolete before their time.

I take this to mean he and I were built tough from superior materials in the 70s.

They imploded for nearly 40 consecutive years in the Pontiac Silverdome.

The old Hudson's (Macy's) building downtown was supposed to implode, but some of it EXploded, landing on the "People Mover" (a little trolley-like public transportation thing) and put it out of commission for months (or years, can't remember).