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Watch the Georgia Dome Implode Into Rubble

Photo credit: Hearst Communications, Inc. All rights reserved
Photo credit: Hearst Communications, Inc. All rights reserved

From Popular Mechanics

One of the world's largest domed stadiums in now a pile of rubble. This morning the Georgia World Congress Center Authority set off 5,000 lbs. of explosives to implode the Georgia Dome, the former home of the Atlanta Falcons.

In the video you can see the blasts go off in a spiral around the stadium. It took only 15 seconds to flatten the dome, which opened in 1992.

This fall the NFL's Falcons moved into Mercedes-Benz Stadium, a new $1.6 billion retractable roof monstrosity across the street from the team's old home. (In fact, the two buildings stood just 30 yards apart. A 5-story tall industrial strength curtain was put in place between them to protect the new stadium from the implosion, the AP says.)

The fancy new park, which will also host the upstart Atlanta United MLS soccer team, doomed the old Georgia Dome to irrelevancy. The oft-maligned dome hosted years and years of SEC championship football games, as well as NCAA Final Fours, Super Bowls, Peach Bowls, and other events.

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