Yesterday a demolition crew blew up a 275-foot tower at the old Mad River Power Plant in Springfield, Ohio to great fanfare. But there was one problem — it fell the wrong way and took out the area's electricity.

Don't you hate it when a perfectly nice festival day in the park is ruined by an inadvertent re-creation of the Hindenburg disaster? Still, you have to award bonus points any time science elicits screams from a terrified populace.

Qantas will keep its troubled A380 airplanes grounded for 72 hours while it figures out what caused last week's explosion.

Liquid metal comes to life in this clip, hungry for delicate nerd-flesh. Wait for the ending to see how close the treacherous assault comes to burning a hole in Tech #2. "Dude, I saved your hand."

Do you enjoy Halloween, destruction, pumpkins—or any combination of the three? Watch a nearly-1,200 pound pumpkin dropped onto a beat-up Pontiac. Views from all angles (plus aerial view) make this gigantic orange explosion awesome to watch!

A group of young Russians decided, for whatever reason (probably Vodka-induced patriotism), to set off fireworks in a bathtub while wearing strange hats. The results are brightly colored, painful, and hilarious.

A huge explosion in a Chinese coal mine killed 21 workers and left 16 trapped. Like Chile! Except, "mining accidents are so common in China that they rarely make newspaper front pages." So, way more tragic and awful.

The FBI videotaped themselves blowing up a Nissan Pathfinder in order to demonstrate how big the explosion would have been if attempted terrorist Faisal Shahzad's Times Square car bomb had actually worked. So, how big? Pretty big!

An enormous explosion just rocked San Bruno, California, a suburb just above San Francisco International Airport. Like, really big: A whole block is on fire with 200-foot flames. Six people are in critical condition. What the hell is going on?

An offshore rig to the West of the Deepwater Horizon disaster site has exploded. Luckily, it was non-producing and there are no reported deaths. But man, oil companies really shouldn't have listened to that sinister Explode-O-Rig 5000™ salesman. [NYT]

This is Snoop Dogg blowing up an armored, fake money-filled vehicle, all in the name of that game that clogs up your Facebook wall, Mafia Wars. Isn't America an awesome place?

A 23-year-old in India is believed to have been killed by an exploding phone after being found "near his farm along with remains of mobile phone and battery." Sounds like he was using... a bomb pilot. [Puts on sunglasses] YEEAAAOWWW!

Sure, it may just be another MythBusters clone, but I'm in favor of any show that increases the number of alternatively-fueled explosions on television. But is there no room for a "she deafened me with science" joke?

How did Joel McHale and The Soup say goodbye to its favorite punching bag? By pointing out all of the finale's gaping plot holes and recreating their own version of the show's trippy ending—this time, everyone dies!

With the Fourth of July just days away, Jimmy Kimmel aired a hilarious and informative video involving drunk mannequins and the potential danger involved with lighting off your own homemade fireworks.

A Radio Shack on Sixth Avenue and 19th St. in Manhattan has been totally destroyed after a manhole explosion at about 11:30 reportedly "sparked a transformer fire." Looks seriously apocalyptic. Daily Intel got this amazing photo; aftermath photos below.

There's nothing like enjoying a nice day in the outdoors with your friends. Oh, and blowing stuff up with a tank is cool, too.

What a beautiful sight. Serene sunset, tall grasses, a view for miles and...HEY! What's that stupid tree doing in the way?!

If anyone deserves to fail this class, it's the teacher! Watch this first-year chemistry professor blow up his lab during a science experiment. (But hey, explosions are what make chemistry fun anyway, right?)

WaPo writer Anne Applebaum has emerged from her cocoon of Polish Secret Service agents to assure everyone that her car explosion yesterday was simple mechanical trouble, not an assassination attempt. (Are you writing under duress, Anne? Blink twice.) The details!