Okay, who'd be willing to take a walk on this glass bottomed "Skywalk?"



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For me, I'd need a a whole lot of liquid persuasion!

I Think i'll pass.

It's a great idea though, but i found that to get an overall picture of the canyon flying over it in a helicopter was fine.

Think the legs would give up.

Andy

I wouldn't mind trying it. My puls will no doubt go crazy and I would try not to think about the Tacoma narrows bridge.

I'm deathly afraid of heights, and yet I have no trouble being on top of a very tall building, or in an airplane, or even the rim of the Grand Canyon. It seems my fear is directly in proportion to my chances of falling. I think this thing would put it to the test. I suppose it would depend on if the thing was swaying in the breeze of not. I'd like to try it someday though.

You need to check out this photo CN Tower glass floor Bout 1100 feet above the city of Toronto Canada... Make you really happy when you get back down.... :-) :-) :-)


Dave

The skywalk was in Popular Science. There's a lot of engineering discussion about the draft winds rising up from the canyon.

Personally, I'd be scared not because of the heights or that the skywalk isn't strong enough, but for the other variables most engineers don't factor in such as too many people on it, lots of kids jumping up and down, snow load, sun's heat, some jerk decides to skydive right into it, another jerk decides to bungie off of it...all that crazy stuff that might cause it to fail because it wasn't engineered for such things. If people were behaved, fine, but many are not.

Mind over matter...

I'd love to have a walk on that. Just imagine 'walking in the air' whilst being supported by a structure designed to cope with the strain... The only problem I would have with the other 120 people on it is just them..I would like to be on my own.

Bring it on.

Cheers
Henk

My thoughts EXACTLY!

NO WAY! The good lord gave me feet to stand upon the earth and thats where mine are staying. A little story, many years ago I had a job as a tourist guide on Tower Bridge in London one day a eldery chap was sweating and shaking on the entrance to the covered ways which span the river his wife in a german accent said he was scared of heights could I help him, bit of smooth talking I managed to get him across, then he tells me he was a fallsturmjager in the war so natrually I picked his brain,then i asked if he was scared jumping from a plane.he told me it was easy when you got a size ten jackboot up your backside from the feldwebel :-)

Man oh man, I know that feeling!!!!! My trouble begins when I can't get a perspective of how far away something is. It even hit me at a height of about 2 feet one time! Don't know why I have it, it came on all at once when I was on a hotel balconey.

I'd still love to try and see if I could walk on it. Well........maybe crawl on my belly around it with my eyes closed.