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Title: Look down...if you dare
Post by: sheldor on July 01, 2009, 04:54:28 PM
103 stories high - all glass.  No way man !
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Post by: Rico on July 01, 2009, 05:00:56 PM
OH MY!
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Post by: Bromptonboy on July 01, 2009, 05:12:01 PM
Vertigo kicks in!
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Post by: moyer777 on July 01, 2009, 05:12:57 PM
The floor would be lined with puke if that was me.  Man, I get the shivers just looking at that.  I can't look anymore   :eekout
Title: Re: Look down...if you dare
Post by: Omra on July 01, 2009, 05:14:07 PM
How would you like to wake up on that balcony after an all nighter...... :ohmy
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Post by: Vartok on July 01, 2009, 06:36:34 PM
More photos show that it is enclosed all around, so you won't fall out.  Wouldn't it be cool to just stand there and feel your body react?!  Have a niece in the Windy, will have to ask if she has considered it yet.

V
Title: Re: Look down...if you dare
Post by: ElfManDan on July 02, 2009, 08:08:24 AM
I have no fear of heights so I think that would be pretty cool to see, least in my opinion.
Title: Re: Look down...if you dare
Post by: sheldor on July 02, 2009, 08:10:44 AM
Quote from: Vartok on July 01, 2009, 06:36:34 PM
More photos show that it is enclosed all around, so you won't fall out.  Wouldn't it be cool to just stand there and feel your body react?!  Have a niece in the Windy, will have to ask if she has considered it yet.

V


It has to be windy up there.  That would just freak me out if I was in that thing and a gust of wind kicked up.
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Post by: Feathers on July 02, 2009, 08:11:46 AM
I have a definite fear of heights. Even the picture makes me panic!
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Post by: Meds on July 02, 2009, 09:28:29 AM
Love it, i would LOVE THAT
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Post by: ChadH on July 02, 2009, 11:57:53 AM
I've heard that the parks dept was planning on extending something similar to this out over the grand canyon. Very cool.
Title: Re: Look down...if you dare
Post by: Omra on July 02, 2009, 12:08:29 PM
The indians built it on a portion of the park they own.  It has been up for a few years now, it extends out about fifty feet.  It is wicked... :jawdrop
Title: Re: Look down...if you dare
Post by: Geekyfanboy on July 02, 2009, 12:17:37 PM
Here the story about the glass balcony, and there are more pictures.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j-naIx2ZJPF816zgNIy2Dds8ieZwD995T18O0 (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j-naIx2ZJPF816zgNIy2Dds8ieZwD995T18O0)
Title: Re: Look down...if you dare
Post by: Geekyfanboy on July 02, 2009, 12:19:03 PM
(http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/media/ALeqM5gPzBf0E-xsUequnLJ3Xwc9Odbcaw?size=l)

(http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/media/ALeqM5hoiX5zlmgsKJp6iUk8SvFbsXpNTQ?size=l)

(http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/media/ALeqM5heNJesPi4DFIVOvS_VG8nsPqKTmw?size=l)
Title: Re: Look down...if you dare
Post by: KingIsaacLinksr on July 02, 2009, 03:37:01 PM
My mind is telling me to run away from that.  That is way too creepy.  Although I am a little more immune to puking.....I doubt I could stay in there too long. 


SCARY!

King
Title: Re: Look down...if you dare
Post by: X on July 02, 2009, 04:24:24 PM
I'd love to be there!
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Post by: iceman on July 02, 2009, 05:25:08 PM
That first step is a biggy
Title: Re: Look down...if you dare
Post by: sheldor on July 02, 2009, 05:48:42 PM
I took a ride on the Millenium Wheel.  Great for taking some cool pictures.  It goes up a few hundred feet but this is completely different.
Title: Re: Look down...if you dare
Post by: Omra on July 02, 2009, 08:09:23 PM
Here is some video...

http://www.noob.us/miscellaneous/not-for-the-scared-of-heights/ (http://www.noob.us/miscellaneous/not-for-the-scared-of-heights/)
Title: Re: Look down...if you dare
Post by: Data on July 03, 2009, 03:53:25 AM
No sorry you have to be mad to use that. i found the view hole in the floor of the Eiffel tower bad enough and that's only the size of a manhole.
Title: Re: Look down...if you dare
Post by: wraith1701 on July 09, 2009, 01:11:04 PM
Quote from: Omra on July 02, 2009, 08:09:23 PM
Here is some video...

http://www.noob.us/miscellaneous/not-for-the-scared-of-heights/ (http://www.noob.us/miscellaneous/not-for-the-scared-of-heights/)

Man; my knees get weak just looking at that video!  I wonder what it is about a kid's psychology that makes it easy for them to deal with being in a room like that?  Blind faith in the security of the 'grown-up' world? 

I'd dare anyone to do more than 20 jumping-jacks in that thing. ;)
Title: Re: Look down...if you dare
Post by: ElfManDan on July 09, 2009, 09:54:47 PM
Quote from: wraith1701 on July 09, 2009, 01:11:04 PM
Quote from: Omra on July 02, 2009, 08:09:23 PM
Here is some video...

http://www.noob.us/miscellaneous/not-for-the-scared-of-heights/ (http://www.noob.us/miscellaneous/not-for-the-scared-of-heights/)

Man; my knees get weak just looking at that video!  I wonder what it is about a kid's psychology that makes it easy for them to deal with being in a room like that?  Blind faith in the security of the 'grown-up' world? 

I'd dare anyone to do more than 20 jumping-jacks in that thing. ;)

I'd do the 20 if I was given the chance. Again no fear of heights. I'm betting for me growing up with an airplane pilot for a father I'm just used to high places.