Massive boulder that rolled onto Colorado highway is too expensive to move, will now be a tourist attraction

[L0ki]

@fuzzyfungus

I’d be curious to know if the change is cultural(eg. risk sensitivity in the face of the casualties you mention); or whether it’s a matter of the overall growth of multiple layers of government(in this case it sounds like blowing up the rock is actually the cheaper option in absolute terms

@fuzzyfungus

I share your surprise at ‘blow it up real good’ being dismissed as infeasible(especially since Colorado and vicinity have a decent amount of mining and quarrying activity; and those are industries where blowing up a rock real good is just another day at the office);

They have apparently blown up the other rock that came down. It’s just this particular one which is considered too big/too expensive.

Transportation officials destroyed the smaller 2.3-million-pound rock with explosives.

Crews on CO 145 successfully blast boulders following rock slide

Warning: photos and video footage of traumatic damage to innocent boulder.