When blow-out replaces blow-down.
Gravity has been an ever-present and unavoidable force since long before the first primitive creatures slithered from the primordial ooze (or since Adam and Eve got jiggy if you’re that way inclined.
And yet, several hundred years after Sir Issaac Newton became the world’s first victim of a drive-by fruiting and claimed the discovery of something that had been around him all along, it seems that the concept of gravity remains beyond the ken of many in the demolition field.
Take, for example, this Russian demolition crew who seem genuinely surprised that half a building should fall to Earth when prompted by an excavator, and even more surprised that it does so with the force of half a building:
