# Would You Go Out On A Ledge, Glass Ledge That Is
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-out-on-a-ledge-glass-ledge-that-is/494993
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [May 1, 2009, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-out-on-a-ledge-glass-ledge-that-is/494993 "2009-05-01T17:32:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2009, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-out-on-a-ledge-glass-ledge-that-is/494993/1 "2009-05-01T17:32:03Z")
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
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### Author:  [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2009, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-out-on-a-ledge-glass-ledge-that-is/494993/2 "2009-05-01T17:48:27Z")
Wouldn’t stay transparent for long with me standing on it.
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### Author:  [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2009, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-out-on-a-ledge-glass-ledge-that-is/494993/3 "2009-05-01T17:48:31Z")
No way. I’m absolutely terrified of hights. Even looking out the window in a tall building is enough to make me break out into sweats.
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### Author:  [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2009, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-out-on-a-ledge-glass-ledge-that-is/494993/4 "2009-05-01T17:53:37Z")
The CN tower in Toronto has a glass floor in one portion. I’ve never been able to work up the nerve to go near it.
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### Author:  [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2009, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-out-on-a-ledge-glass-ledge-that-is/494993/5 "2009-05-01T17:54:52Z")
Not unless I got ten million dollars, and a night alone with Salma Hayek out of it.
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### Author:  [@maladroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maladroit)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2009, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-out-on-a-ledge-glass-ledge-that-is/494993/6 "2009-05-01T17:56:35Z")
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
[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,259863,00.html](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,259863,00.html) found a news story, no pics, not good ones anyway
article says it’s a 3 foot glass floor extending over the Grand Canyon ‘with no visible supports’ eek
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### Author:  [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2009, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-out-on-a-ledge-glass-ledge-that-is/494993/7 "2009-05-01T18:01:23Z")
Sounds similar to the [glass bridge](http://www.grandcanyonskywalk.com/mainmenu.html) they put in at the Grand Canyon.
The Guthrie in Minneapolis has a section of glass floor you can stand on several stories up. Kind of fun to stand on that.
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### Author:  [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2009, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-out-on-a-ledge-glass-ledge-that-is/494993/8 "2009-05-01T18:02:42Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2009, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-out-on-a-ledge-glass-ledge-that-is/494993/9 "2009-05-01T18:03:13Z")
Here are some pictures that will give you an idea how the Grand Canyon skywalk was built.
> **[Oops! 404 Error | Page Not Found](https://www.thecanyon.com/oops)**
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> Your travels have taken you into unfamiliar territory. Let's try to get you back on track!
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### Author:  [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2009, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-out-on-a-ledge-glass-ledge-that-is/494993/10 "2009-05-01T18:21:22Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2009, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-out-on-a-ledge-glass-ledge-that-is/494993/11 "2009-05-01T18:25:51Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@DaphneBlack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaphneBlack)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2009, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-out-on-a-ledge-glass-ledge-that-is/494993/12 "2009-05-01T18:36:26Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2009, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-out-on-a-ledge-glass-ledge-that-is/494993/13 "2009-05-01T18:39:00Z")
> [@PunditLisa](#):
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> Here are some pictures that will give you an idea how the Grand Canyon skywalk was built.
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> [Oops! 404 Error | Page Not Found](http://www.thecanyon.com/webpage.php/swmc/webpages/grand-canyon-skywalk-pictures)
There’s an hour long program on the construction of this platform on one of those “how the fuck they do it” channels. Astonishing…that’s what it is.
And no, I don’t think I’ve got what it takes to walk out on a windy glass ledge in paper booties just so I can see where I’m going to die.
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### Author:  [@schnuckiputzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schnuckiputzi)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2009, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-out-on-a-ledge-glass-ledge-that-is/494993/14 "2009-05-01T18:42:51Z")
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:
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### Author:  [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2009, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-out-on-a-ledge-glass-ledge-that-is/494993/15 "2009-05-01T18:46:31Z")
Sure, I’d check it out.
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### Author:  [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-out-on-a-ledge-glass-ledge-that-is/494993/16 "2009-05-01T18:48:14Z")
Definitely, as long as I feel that I’m on a secure platform or have something solid to hang onto I have no problem with heights.
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### Author:  [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2009, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-out-on-a-ledge-glass-ledge-that-is/494993/17 "2009-05-01T18:50:50Z")
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.
> [@mnemosyne](#):
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> 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 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.
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### Author:  [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2009, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-out-on-a-ledge-glass-ledge-that-is/494993/18 "2009-05-01T18:53:48Z")
I thought it would be cool to do the Grand Canyon’s glass ledge (although I hear I would be disappointed) so yes, I would.
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### Author:  [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2009, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-out-on-a-ledge-glass-ledge-that-is/494993/19 "2009-05-01T18:56:56Z")
Yes, I can usually rationalize away the inherent fear.
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### Author:  [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2009, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-out-on-a-ledge-glass-ledge-that-is/494993/20 "2009-05-01T18:59:58Z")
> [@Khadaji](#):
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> I thought it would be cool to do the Grand Canyon’s glass ledge (although I hear I would be disappointed) so yes, I would.
We did a small airplane ride, which was cool. The Ledge costs something like $70 per. The plane was like $120-ish if I remember correctly.
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