The Ghost Bar at the Palms in Vegas has a little section of glass floor that you can stand on. It’s 55 stories up. I have an issue with heights and that wasn’t bad at all.
The Grand Canyon thing? No way.
The Ghost Bar at the Palms in Vegas has a little section of glass floor that you can stand on. It’s 55 stories up. I have an issue with heights and that wasn’t bad at all.
The Grand Canyon thing? No way.
I would certainly try. I love to be scared - it’s such a rare experience in today’s world. I’d much prefer if it were acrylic though, the brittleness of glass worries me. (I don’t even fully trust my glass aquarium - would much prefer if it were acrylic.)
I’m sure the structural engineers thought of that, but yeah, I’d be scared,a nd I’d do it.
Watching this guy on this ledge P5170068 | Karlen Sanberg | Flickr made me throw up a little in my mouth.
I did it on the one in the CN Tower… More like I stood near it and craned my head to look around, and then stood by the edge, and then finally, I had to get down on my hands and knees and put one hand on it, and that took a ton of effort, and then I tried to stand on it. It was SO HARD, the fear was never that bad before- I do have a crushing fear of heights, but I always try to rationalize it, but man, that was the single hardest thing trying to do- standing on that glass panel. I had to have someone hold me while I stood on it.
I did a helicopter ride over the Grand Canyon, many years ago.
Don’t do that if you have a tendency to get motion sick. Trust me on this. I didn’t actually throw up, but I felt like I was going to for a long time, which those of you who get motion sickness know can be just as bad as actually throwing up.
I actually had the opposite experinece at the CN tower as the others described here. On my friend’s 10th floor balcony, I thought: “Woooooo. High. Feelin’ whoozy.” But the CN Tower was too high. It lost all meaning of “high” as if my brain could no longer process it in any familiar context.
Intellectually I knew that I was practically in the muther-frakkin’ sky, but it was so far up that on a screaming-mimi instinct level, it actually no longer had any reference markers for my lizard brain to go “Whoa! High! Scary!”
Kind of like the words “ten thousand dollar debt” has meaning for me, but “one trillion dollar debt” much less so because I can’t really conceptualize it within my experience.
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With all due respect, I bet the folks involved in this event had even more trust in those engineers than you do in these.
I thought all this sounded familiar.
According to the program on the Grand Canyon thing, it can hold 73 (?) 747s or some crazy shit. It’s really very interesting. I hope they accomplish what they set out to. There was (and still is) a lot of controversy over the whole project, from the “trashing the canyon” perspective.
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.
Ah. Yes. Well. cough
It sounds like there were multiple points of failure there, and if any one person had done their job responsibly it would have been averted. I do take your point, though.
My mom and bro have been to the CN tower, and they’ve reported back. Apparently kids would run across the window, laughing and giggling and carrying on. Absolutely no fear. Their parents were an entirely different story. All the adults approached it very warily, and some/most couldn’t bring themselves to walk across it.
I’d love to go try, myself.
Nope. Never. I get queasy. I hate stores with multilevels that open to the entrance and you can see over the railing. I never went on the glass floor over the valley at The House On The Rock.
I remember that when I went to the Twin Towers in NY in 84, they had some sort of seats over a glass floor or something…
Ha! That baby is like, WTF??
Like Anne Neville, I’d be okay with a railing. I actually like the kind of vertigo thrill of being high up, so long as I have something to hang on to. Without that – no way, I would be too afraid of losing my balance and falling.
I have been to 2 places with glass sections in the floor- ine at the science center in St Louis, on the overpass across the highway and the other at the Newport aquarium… over the alligators. Both times, I sort of edged my way around them. I just don’t feel comfortable being able to see through the ground beneath my feet.
I’ve been on the St. Louis one as well.
I’d absolutely do the Sears Tower ledge. Twice been nearish enough to the Grand Canyon skywalk for us to consider it but my buddies and I have never made the trip.
Just thinking about it makes me feel oogy, but I think I’d have to try.
Hell no. Not a chance. I am ridiculously afraid of heights.