# Would You Go Out On A Ledge, Glass Ledge That Is **URL:** \ **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:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2009, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-out-on-a-ledge-glass-ledge-that-is/494993/41 "2009-05-02T00:27:09Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > I never went on the glass floor over the valley at The House On The Rock. Oo, I went on that, but I seriously felt like crawling on my hands and knees. Not entirely sure why that seemed like a better idea, but that’s what my reptile brain wanted. ---
**Author:** ![Shadez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Shadez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadez)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2009, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-out-on-a-ledge-glass-ledge-that-is/494993/42 "2009-05-02T00:29:13Z")
> [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](#): > > Did it at the CN tower. Jumped up and down on it. I hate steep staircases, but I’m not really afraid of heights; I’m afraid of losing my balance and falling. No chance of that? No chance of me being scared. I don’t think I was able to jump up and down at the CN tower. I walked across it after a bit, but I think I had a friend holding my hand. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2009, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-out-on-a-ledge-glass-ledge-that-is/494993/43 "2009-05-02T00:32:12Z")
Yes, I’d go out on a glass ledge, and I’d love it. I went on the Grand Canyon ‘Sky walk’, and I loved it. It’s a very strange feeling at first, and it takes a few minutes to get used to. But it’s a unique experience, and great fun. There are actually small gaps in the walkway (by design, I hasten to add), so you can lie down flat and look straight down a drop of about 4000 feet, without any thick glass in the way. This isn’t exactly encouraged, but if the Walkway isn’t too busy the guides don’t mind too much. It doesn’t take long to get used to the phenomenon, and after a while I was jumping up and down on it at the farthest point, just to see that it really is as safe and secure as anything. The only downside to the Canyon skywalk is that they do not let you take your own cameras out (they are very thorough about this, with full airport-style security and frisking). If you want a pic of yourself standing on the Skywalk, you have to buy the ‘official’ picture. This stinks, and I normally refuse to have anything to do with this policy. But I only found out having gone all the way there and having pre-paid for a ticket. ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2009, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-out-on-a-ledge-glass-ledge-that-is/494993/44 "2009-05-02T00:47:01Z")
I would _if_ I was with other people and they all were. I might feel a bit queasy, but I’d do it. I would not do it without peer pressure in a million years. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2009, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-out-on-a-ledge-glass-ledge-that-is/494993/45 "2009-05-02T00:55:49Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > Oo, I went on that, but I seriously felt like crawling on my hands and knees. Not entirely sure why that seemed like a better idea, but that’s what my reptile brain wanted. Crawling would spread your weight over a larger contact area, which means your ground pressure is lower. With a lower ground pressure you’re less likely to break through a surface. ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2009, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-out-on-a-ledge-glass-ledge-that-is/494993/46 "2009-05-02T03:34:07Z")
No no no never never never! waaaaaa! Scary. ---
**Author:** ![newcrasher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b3f665/32.png) [@newcrasher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcrasher)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2009, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-out-on-a-ledge-glass-ledge-that-is/494993/47 "2009-05-02T04:12:15Z")
[I will give $100 fake dollars to anyone afraid of heights who watches this all the way through.](http://www.break.com/usercontent/2008/5/Crane-hanging-506616.html) ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2009, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-out-on-a-ledge-glass-ledge-that-is/494993/48 "2009-05-02T04:18:14Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > Sounds similar to the [glass bridge](http://www.grandcanyonskywalk.com/mainmenu.html) they put in at the Grand Canyon. I was going to mention that one. Too slow, so I’ll have to go with the backup plan. Many years ago, a friend of mine had a glass plate installed in his living room, above a 15th century well. Man, that was weird. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2009, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-out-on-a-ledge-glass-ledge-that-is/494993/49 "2009-05-02T10:52:58Z")
Yeah, I think I’d do it. I don’t have a problem with heights, I have a problem with falling. No falling - no problem. ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2009, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-out-on-a-ledge-glass-ledge-that-is/494993/50 "2009-05-02T11:46:40Z")
> [@newcrasher](#): > > [I will give $100 fake dollars to anyone afraid of heights who watches this all the way through.](http://www.break.com/usercontent/2008/5/Crane-hanging-506616.html) Terrified of heights. Watched it. Where’s my money? (JEEEEEEzus… they didn’t even have any kind of safety harnesses on, did they??? My stomach was in knots!) ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2009, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-out-on-a-ledge-glass-ledge-that-is/494993/51 "2009-05-02T12:15:21Z")
Absolutely. When I was a kid, I had this idea for modern blimp cruises equipped with a transparent dance floor. I was a weird kid. ---
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2009, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-out-on-a-ledge-glass-ledge-that-is/494993/52 "2009-05-03T00:11:42Z")
> [@newcrasher](#): > > [I will give $100 fake dollars to anyone afraid of heights who watches this all the way through.](http://www.break.com/usercontent/2008/5/Crane-hanging-506616.html) Oh. My. God. I think my entire body just tried to crawl into my sphincter watching that. More fuel in the conversation I have with teh SO and other people about “HOW do enough males live for the species to reproduce when they do such crazy stuff?” ---
**Author:** ![Jammer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df705f/32.png) [@Jammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jammer)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2009, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-out-on-a-ledge-glass-ledge-that-is/494993/53 "2009-05-03T02:00:34Z")
I found [this picture](http://www.wwtdd.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/sp21019l97381.jpg) attached to a story about this glass ledge at the Sears Tower. I can’t tell if this is just an artist’s depiction or if they actually have the thing open, but looks cool if you ask me. I would do it in a heartbeat. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Mondegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/91b2a8/32.png) [@Lord\_Mondegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Mondegreen)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2009, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-out-on-a-ledge-glass-ledge-that-is/494993/54 "2009-05-04T05:14:52Z")
> [@newcrasher](#): > > [I will give $100 fake dollars to anyone afraid of heights who watches this all the way through.](http://www.break.com/usercontent/2008/5/Crane-hanging-506616.html) I’m not afraid of heights. I’ve walked on the glass floor of the CN Tower, been in a glass-bottomed cable car across a valley in the Blue Mountains (just outside Sydney) and would do the one at Sears Tower if I got the chance, but that video freaked me out. There’s a huge difference between doing something which is actually safe but challenges your senses (walking on a glass floor), and doing something which is insane (hanging off a crane with no harness). Unless of course their backpacks had parachutes, but they looked way too small for that. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2009, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-out-on-a-ledge-glass-ledge-that-is/494993/55 "2009-05-04T07:33:30Z")
Yeah, but why else would he be wearing a backpack? Also, that Grand Canyon deck costs 70 bucks and you can’t even bring a camera? I hope the whole damn thing tips over into the canyon (with nobody on it, of course.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-out-on-a-ledge-glass-ledge-that-is/494993.md?page=2)