Here's what launching a whole fireworks display at once looks like

It's pretty incredible.
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Here's what launching a whole fireworks display at once looks like
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Ever wonder how much planning goes into a fireworks show?

YouTuber Tom Scott set off ten minutes' worth of fireworks in ten seconds, creating an enormous explosion.

"There are plenty of stories and videos of fireworks display companies that have made the same change by accident ... which, in the media is called a technical hitch, or worse, human error," Scott said. "And the investigation ends there. Someone hit the button wrong, that explains it, we don't need to look any further."

Scott thinks that's wrong, and put together this light show to prove just how much effort it takes to "accidentally" set off all all the fireworks in a display at the same time.

"This isn't about fireworks," he said, "it's about anything that is somehow one human error away from disaster."


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