No one has ever seen the world's tallest tower collapse... until now

Wake up. The antenna was not part of the Soviet Union's radio communications. He was in Poland. It was a Polish radio station, not a Soviet one. The antenna was not located in Warsaw, but in Konstantynów.

The Burj Khalifa and the Warsaw Tower share something. No restrooms.

Love the GTA5 pause music

Thanks to the Warsaw Antenna, the 629-meter KTHI-TV tower in Blanchard, North Dakota has the distinction of twice being the tallest structure on Earth: from its 1963 erection until the Warsaw Antenna's completion in 1974, and then from the Warsaw Antenna's 1991 collapse until Burj Khalifa "topped off" in 2008. The Blanchard tower, now KVLY-DTV, still stands sixty years later.

646m, the most extreme spot for skydiving. Too bad it’s now gone. :(

Underrated content. Nearly forgot Poland had the world's tallest structure before it collapsed. What physics SIM did you use for this?

The great pyramid held the title of tallest building far longer than the Empire building.

I used to pass by the WECT Tower a lot as a child before it was demolished. It was 663 meters tall. I was always amazed by the thought of someone having to climb to the top to service the beacons.

There are different stories about the collapse. I personally read of successfully replacing the main rope with two temporary ones, but then hours after workers left the area one of the temporary ropes slipped off of it's clamp, causing the disaster. This is why there were no killed or injuried, as everybody had left the site prior to the collapse. Also I heard that the signal wasn't getting it's way to the Antarctica, but it could have been received in the north and central Africa. The mast was never rebuilt, after years of waiting they finally replaced it with another one (actually an array of two "half-wave" masts) near the city of Solec Kujawski (/solets kooyavski/). You can still receive it at 225 kHz, AM band of course. It's not as powerful as the old one, but I believe it still covers most of Europe and maybe even larger area. Greetings from Poland.

This video is unbelievably underrated

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Finally someone did it... greetings From Poland!

This is a way better production than I was expecting from a small channel. Nice work and narration :)

I bet that must have looked really creepy when it fall like some enormous snake falling to the earth.

In Poland, we generally liked to broadcast the radio. We had several transmitters capable of transmitting signals far beyond the horizon. And every time some man had to ruin it. (babice transatlantic, several radio broadcasting centers disrupting propaganda radios from the west during the USSR)

Excellent presentation! I love these kind of computer simulated disaster recreations. Very well done. I feel lucky to be subscriber #310. You're channel will be in the 10's of thousands (and beyond) in no time if you keep this kind of production quality!

"You built your tower strong & tall, don't you know it had to fall someday." (Townes Van Zandt--Tower Song)

At least it (probably) fell within it's own footprint + guy wires.

Amazing video, thanks for making it!

Is it possible to validate the result of this simulation against images of the collapsed tower? As someone who has worked with computer simulations, many people assume that a simulation is correct simply because it was done on computer with a visually impressive model, when in reality boundary conditions and assumptions can make enormous differences in how the simulation plays out.