Grand Canyon glass walkway.....

Collapse
X
Collapse
 
  • Page of 1
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts
Previous template Next
  • Dr Mordrid
    Moderator
    • Apr 2001
    • 26592
    #1

    Grand Canyon glass walkway.....

    that juts 70 feet out over the canyon;



    It's been proposed by a native American tribe that owns the land around part of the canyon.

    Story....

    My kids and I would love it, but you couldn't get Margie closer than 200 feet without a team of horses

    Dr. Mordrid
    Dr. Mordrid
    ----------------------------
    An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.

    I carry a gun because I can't throw a rock 1,250 fps
    Tags: None
    • Claymonkey
      Super MURCer
      • Dec 2000
      • 1871
      #2
      ooooooo I'd love to check that out. Heck I just need to go again, I haven't been since I was 8.
      Wikipedia and Google.... the needles to my tangent habit.
      ________________________________________________

      That special feeling we get in the cockles of our hearts, Or maybe below the cockles, Maybe in the sub-cockle area, Maybe in the liver, Maybe in the kidneys, Maybe even in the colon, We don't know.

        Comment

        • SitFlyer
          Super MURCer
          • Aug 2002
          • 7178
          #3
          I wonder how long before some BASE jumper takes advantage of that structure.

            Comment

            • GNEP
              Super MURCer
              • Feb 2002
              • 5241
              #4
              Indiana Jones all over
              DM says: Crunch with Matrox Users@ClimatePrediction.net

                Comment

                • degrub
                  MURCer
                  • Jan 2004
                  • 882
                  #5
                  ! Try that puppy out in a thunderstorm !!!!

                    Comment

                    • KvHagedorn
                      Super MURCer
                      • Aug 1999
                      • 10725
                      #6
                      Under no circumstances would I step out onto that thing.

                        Comment

                        • Brian Ellis
                          Super MURCer
                          • Sep 1999
                          • 9623
                          #7
                          As I get vertigo on a thick carpet, guess it's not for me. Hey, you mech/civil engineering guys, what would happen if a bunch of 7-year-olds start jumping synchronously up and down at the extreme tip, especially if they hit resonance?

                          When I visited the place, I kept well behind the barriers at the public viewing spots

                          Has anyone suffered from vertigo? I have had two severe bouts where I simply could do nothing but freeze. The first was on a solid wooden platform with safety rail inside the battlements of the Château de Grandson, designed so that you can pour boiling oil or molten lead on the attackers. The drop was perhaps 15 m. I just froze solid, as helpless as a babe. Apparently I wasn't the first, as one of the custodians came with a blindfold, told me to face the stone wall and put my hands on it. He then told me to take a series of small sideways steps while he stood behind me, with his hands on my waist. He thus guided me blindly to the stone steps in a turret. Relief! The second time was on a kind of narrow steel pedestrian bridge with a grilled walkway, just wide enough for one person. Again the drop must have been in the 15 m region. I was the only person there when I froze, so could not get help. Having experienced the effect of the blindfold, I screwed my eyes shut, put a hand on each rail and shuffled my way slowly back from whence I came. It really is a horrifying experience when it hits like that.
                          Brian (the devil incarnate)

                            Comment

                            • GuchiGuh
                              Comic Relief
                              • Jun 2002
                              • 1656
                              #8
                              Hey, you mech/civil engineering guys, what would happen if a bunch of 7-year-olds start jumping synchronously up and down at the extreme tip, especially if they hit resonance?
                              Uuhh, well.....it would shake a bit more in the vertical direction than usual, I suppose

                                Comment

                                Previous template Next
                                Working...