Two things come to mind after reading this article:
1. Who's gonna be the lucky guy to have to Windex the underside of this thing?
2. If I were Kieran Suckling, policy director for the Center for Biological Diversity, I'd change my name.
Posted on 02/11/2007 8:35:02 AM PST by FReepaholic
Arizona's Hualapai Tribe hopes to draw more visitors with a controversial structure that will jut over the crevasse.
GRAND CANYON WEST, ARIZ. — Perched over the Grand Canyon close to a mile above the Colorado River, a massive, multimillion-dollar glass walkway will soon open for business as the centerpiece of a struggling Indian tribe's plan to lure tourists to its remote reservation.
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Two things come to mind after reading this article:
1. Who's gonna be the lucky guy to have to Windex the underside of this thing?
2. If I were Kieran Suckling, policy director for the Center for Biological Diversity, I'd change my name.
Thanks but no thanks.....I can't stand going up more than three steps on a ladder.
No way would I step foot on this thing.
LOL!
Me too...a Caterpillar D10 tractor couldn't drag me on the thing.
That's the type of thing of which nightmares are made!
Pity that the Hualapai cannot follow traditional Native American activites: hunting, gathering, high-stakes Bingo...
The entire controversy ignores the bigger question that apparently may not be asked...why are these people self-imposing poverty on themselves under the absurd reservation system?
President Reagan was heavily criticized when he said that there is no greater example of the failure of socialism than the US indian reservation system. I say give them their land, eliminate the Bureau of Indian Affairs and all the hand outs and tell them they are on their own.
Gambling IS an Indian tradition! LOL.
I fly airplanes and hang upside down in the straps at 6000 feet.
Ladders and roofs, though, really creep me out.
I'd like to see the anchoring specs at the visitors' center, but if it is as solid as it could be, love it! They need to add a "Darwin Award Bunji Jumping" platform at the apex. Add that, shows twice daily, guaranteed money maker.
YOU don't have to want to go there, just realize that a lot of people will.
Oh I know they will and I'm sure it will be a big attraction. I don't mind heights, but I have this phobia about falling from high, open areas.
I'll be there skywalking in April (if it indeed opens by then). I just wish it didn't look like a see-through toilet seat!
later, ldf-skywalker
I think this is pretty cool. Plus it will drive the environmentalists cracy.
"What the Grand Canyon needs most is a place for quiet contemplation and recreation," said Kieran Suckling, policy director for the Center for Biological Diversity, an Arizona-based environmental group. "The Skywalk is part of a process that is turning the canyon into a tacky commercial playground."
OK, let me get this straight. The evil Native American developers are ravaging the land for mere financial gain, and the noble, gentle, tuned-in-to-nature Europeans are appalled but helpless to do anything?
I'm getting dizzy.
By the way, in the one picture of the walkway, it doesn't appear that it has guard rails. Are they crazy?
I hope the dang thing falls off.
Developmental psychologists are still debating whether depth perception and fear of heights is innate or learned.
In the photo of the construction worker on the skywalk, it is actually still on land. Click the link and view the gallery. An artist's sketch shows that there will be a see-through wall on both sides of the "skywalkers."
My first wife expressed the same hope.
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