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Terrifying 4,600ft Glass Walkway Opens In China, And Just Looking At The Pics Will Give You Vertigo
themindcircle ^ | 18 Novemer 2017 | themindcircle

Posted on 11/18/2017 4:59:10 PM PST by COBOL2Java

If you’re scared of heights, you’re going to find that this walkway is going to scare you just looking at the photos! You aren’t alone, though, and many people would take one look at this adventure and simply turn the other way. After all, who needs to walk around 5000 feet in the air, anyway, right?

If, however, you are taking one look at this glass option and thinking “How fast can I get there?”, you aren’t alone either. All you have to do is take a look at the photos and see that there are other adventurers that are looking to get in some excellent time in the world of heights. You have to admit that it would make some incredible pictures, there’s no question about that. Can you stomach the heights? That, it seems, is the question that everyone is asking themselves when they look about going on it.




TOPICS: Travel; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: china; glasswalkways; nojustno
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To: SamAdams76

My dad was in military aircraft design from 1939 to 1982. He could not ride in a glass elevator however.


41 posted on 11/18/2017 5:28:19 PM PST by mgstarr ("Some of us drink because we're not poets." Arthur (1981))
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To: LostInBayport

I have my private pilots license and instrument rating and this makes me ill also. It’s nuts. I’d walk it but why? I wouldn’t enjoy it AT ALL. Especially knowing Chi Coms built it.


42 posted on 11/18/2017 5:31:13 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: COBOL2Java

43 posted on 11/18/2017 5:35:31 PM PST by gaijin (Basically Obama lawyers would blatantly make up some totally groundless allegation against a fat cas)
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To: Guenevere
Opposite me: I LOVED Soarin ! I could do that all day !

But put me in front of a video game with 3D movement, after 15 minutes I am puking sick and worthless for the rest of the day.

44 posted on 11/18/2017 5:36:03 PM PST by onona
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To: COBOL2Java

Upset me that, when I went to the skywalk at Grand Canyon, you could not take your phone with you for pictures. When the lady at the gate told me that, I left.


45 posted on 11/18/2017 5:36:20 PM PST by ThePatriotsFlag (If GOP won House, Senate and Presidency...why are the Democrats still in charge?)
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To: Inyo-Mono

How was this thing built?

Don’t know about this thing, but in the mid 60s in Hong Kong they used bamboo scaffolding to get up to however many stories they were constructing then.


46 posted on 11/18/2017 5:38:59 PM PST by Western Phil
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To: COBOL2Java

If you think it’s brave just walking out there, imagine how brave you had to be to be one of the people who built it!


47 posted on 11/18/2017 5:39:22 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: pcottraux

“I’m trying to figure out how picture number 4 was taken.”

Look closely at pic 7. The darker portion of the walkway bends in such a way as to allow that photo from the walkway.


48 posted on 11/18/2017 5:41:59 PM PST by bk1000 (I stand with Trump.)
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To: COBOL2Java

No thank you on the glass bridge.

I’ve crossed a few bridges in China and it wasn’t fun. One was a wooden shaky suspension bridge high over a dry river. I was only a short way across when some jerky college guys decided to shake it more by jumping up and down. I quickly backed up and got off.


49 posted on 11/18/2017 5:42:19 PM PST by Exit148 ((Loose Chnge Club founder) Put yours aside for the next Freepathon!)
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To: COBOL2Java
The iconic Seattle Space Needle is undergoing a multi-million dollar renovation which will have ALL the restaurant's walls and floors completely encased in transparent steel glass.

Who wants to look 600 feet below them when their dining?

I think it's going to be a huge multi-million dollar mistake.

Maybe it's just me.

50 posted on 11/18/2017 5:43:04 PM PST by PROCON (#MAGA)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Falling is not as bad as the landing.....


51 posted on 11/18/2017 5:43:04 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

But the rocks at the bottom will break your fall.


52 posted on 11/18/2017 5:43:26 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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53 posted on 11/18/2017 5:44:01 PM PST by wastedyears (US out of the UN, UN out of the US.)
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To: Tucker39

I know the seat doesn’t move much....it’s an illusion

But I could only watch through slits.....too afraid to open my eyes


54 posted on 11/18/2017 5:44:39 PM PST by Guenevere
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To: tumblindice
And that would not be all it would break.
55 posted on 11/18/2017 5:45:07 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: COBOL2Java

Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope, and NOPE!!!!


56 posted on 11/18/2017 5:45:34 PM PST by freedombird (When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness. -A. DeTocqueville)
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To: Western Phil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT3pk3Sw78E


57 posted on 11/18/2017 5:45:45 PM PST by Western Phil
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To: Guenevere

Love soaring did you remeber the aroma of oranges ?


58 posted on 11/18/2017 5:47:10 PM PST by al baby (May the Forceps be with you Hi Mom Its a Joke friends)
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To: al baby

No!.....all senses stalled!


59 posted on 11/18/2017 5:49:04 PM PST by Guenevere
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To: al baby

Actually, I vaguely do.


60 posted on 11/18/2017 5:49:43 PM PST by Guenevere
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