This year Sears (soon to be Willis) Tower will install “glass” ledges that will allow the visitors on the observation deck to go out on it and look directly down, like on a glass bottom boat.
I don’t know exactly what the material is or if it is indeed some kind of glass, but it sounds like something that could freak you out. I don’t think I’d have enough nerve to do that. I recall when I lived in Florida, our hotel had a marina with glass bottom boats, and some people would say, though they never got seasick in their lives would get seasick looking through the glass bottom
I don’t think I could do it either. I was in a museum that had a small section of glass-tiled floor on the second story. I had dificulty trusting that. Don’t they have something similar at the Grand Canyon? off to do some googling
I get a queasy feeling in the pit of my stomach just thinking about it, but I would definitely work up the nerve to do it. I would probably have to go out on my hands and knees though. It just seems safer that way.
Hell yes I would. I trust that engineers wouldn’t build something like that without making damn sure of its safety, and I’m not scared of heights…as long as I’m looking down. When I look up, that’s when I get queasy.
Definitely. I love heights and happen to think that the only fun thing about the CN tower is the glass floor. I’d love to walk on the glass cantilever at the Grand Canyon, too. I’m also the one who will climb to the highest point on cruise ships/hotel (rooftop pools, for example) and look down over the edge, generally freaking out the people near me.
I stood on the glass floor at the CN Tower and thought that was cool. I’d be less inclined to do it if it was a jutting ledge, without the surrounding obvious floor that that had, so it’d depend on how it was structured I guess.
There is not enough money in the universe to get me near it. It would not be transparent in my area, but yellow and brown and covered with chunkiness.:eek:
I don’t think it would bother me too much as long as it had a railing that I could hang onto for dear life. I think I’d be OK with a glass floor, but not with a ledge with no railing.
I can do this sort of thing if there’s a railing. If there isn’t a railing at least tall enough for me to comfortably grab it with my hands while standing up, I won’t go anywhere near the edge.
I’m afraid I might get an uncontrollable urge to jump off, if there’s no railing. I don’t know why I would do that, but I’m scared anyway. There’s also the entirely reasonable fear that I might trip (I can trip on a flat floor, I’m such a klutz) or lose my balance (also not unlikely), but it’s overwhelmed by the irrational fear of hurling myself over the edge.