This has been making the viral rounds…makes me cringe!
Couple of Youtubes. This first is the most recent.
Crazy man rides hoverboard on edge of Dubai Skyscraper
and an oldie but goodie…
Enjoy. 
It’s usually more that the engineers don’t really think about serviceability aspects. Their primary concerns are that it works and that the initial assembly can be done–and sometimes, they don’t actually know how the piece they’re working on is going to be combined with other pieces. A lot of places compartmentalize their engineering. As a result, you may get things that technically fit together, based on the specs, but give you places like the overhangs that guy had to climb over.
Beancounters come in for a share of the blame as well, especially on mass-produced items. Adding elements to the design to enhance safety and serviceability costs money, but does not directly earn money. It’s probably not a big factor in this particular case, though.
I like the surprise at the end. It is one thing to be standing on a postage stamp BFThousand feet in the air, but to have to share it?
Dude, this is how I got my fear of heights in the first place. When I was in 4th grade we took a class trip and I was leery of going out on the glass floor of the CN tower. One of my classmates helpfully gave me a shove.
Sorta related and worth watching:
Worst falls
mmm
I don’t understand how people do that. At what point do you become conditioned or comfortable with those heights?
Am I the only one here who wasn’t particularly affected by that? The only part of it that seemed scary to me was when they said a thunderstorm was coming, because there’s no way to get down quickly (well, OK, one way to get down quickly).
And I’m surprised that they never called it a “third of a mile”, since that’s exactly what 1,760 feet is.
EDIT: octopus, I suspect that you mostly don’t become conditioned to it. You don’t go into that line of work in the first place unless you’re already completely without a fear of heights.
Holy shit. That actually made me shudder.
I wasn’t particularly affected by it, as you might gather from my earlier posts in the thread. I’ve climbed towers. None were nearly as tall as this one, but they had the charm of being only a foot wide all the way up, plus swaying so much that I could look up and watch the clouds apparently circling above me.
As you say, the scariest part was the potential for a storm. Mostly, I was annoyed by poor safety design and practices.
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This has been making the viral rounds…makes me cringe!
[/QUOTE]That person must be wearing some sort of safety harness, right? Some of jumps don’t seem possible otherwise.
I don’t know. If there’s a safety harness it’s not obvious…perhaps there’s a partner off screen with a safety line?
As with a lot of these viral clips, it’s difficult to get the background story behind it…
I usually sit by the window in an airplane, and the view downward does not bother me, even when the plane banks into a hard turn. At half a kilometer, I kind of think those guys have lost their direct association with the ground: it is just a thing down there a ways. They (unlike the stunters in those other videos) are just doing their job (though I think I would be checking the weather before ascending). What would bother me more than the height would be the wind. Oh, and the descent. Going back down must be a lot harder than the climbing.
besides them having a higher fear tolerance in general, this must be part of it. Like window-washers on a skyscraper – just washing this window like any other.
http://robinson-solutions.blogspot.ca/2015/11/photographers-window-washers-love-story.html(Love the guys dressed as superheroes outside the children’s hospital windows 
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You guys are lightweights. If you want a scare, check out what the cool kids are doing in Russia these days:
[/QUOTE]H.F.S. :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
No. Just… no.
Let me go lie down somewhere…
Perhaps it’s odd, given that heights in general don’t bother me, but I’m afraid of flying. Videos of other people flying don’t bother me, however. (The time the screen on the seat back in front of me was stuck on the belly cam of the plane sucked, though.)
standingwave’s El Camino del Rey link (post #42) unnerved me more than the OP link; every inch of that nightmare looked like it would come down if you so much as sneezed. And that safety line? :eek: :dubious: