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Tribe set to open Grand Canyon Skywalk ($30M tourist overlook to provide 4,000 foot perspective)
The Sierra Times / AP ^
| March 16
| CHRIS KAHN
Posted on 03/20/2007 6:08:53 AM PDT by Stoat
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To: Stoat
With my acrophobia, no way - no how.
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posted on
03/20/2007 9:04:40 AM PDT
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
To: sergeantdave
62
posted on
03/20/2007 9:04:46 AM PDT
by
Gamecock
(Ecclesia reformata, semper reformanda secundum verbum Dei)
To: WBL 1952
Are you upset at Indians because they can do it and you can't? You should be upset at the Sierra club, not the Indians. As far as the Nation within a Nation goes, get over it, you can't do a damn thing about that but whine.
63
posted on
03/20/2007 9:10:10 AM PDT
by
fish hawk
(The religion of Darwinism = Monkey Intellect)
To: CT-Freeper
Why would someone pay $25 to jump off it when one can just jump off of the canyon lip almost anywhere else for a lot less? If you start from a point seventy feet out from the edge, you get a much longer ride before splatting on the canyon wall.
Of course, the extra ride comes at about ten bucks a second.
< }B^)
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posted on
03/20/2007 9:23:49 AM PDT
by
Erasmus
(This tagline on sabbatical.)
To: Gorzaloon
This office chair has no buttons on it anymore. Check your stool for them.
SLAP! SLAP! SLAP!
65
posted on
03/20/2007 9:28:22 AM PDT
by
Erasmus
(This tagline on sabbatical.)
To: Moonmad27
The "edge effect" is the perfect description for that feeling! I don't feel so alone after reading this thread. I personally LOVE having that "edge effect" hit me. Adrenaline rushes are the best feeling in the world. It makes me feel all tingly all over my insides.
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posted on
03/20/2007 9:40:00 AM PDT
by
CT-Freeper
(Said the perpetually dejected Mets (and, yes, sometimes Jets) fan.)
To: fish hawk
Are you upset at Indians because they can do it and you can't? I don't know about that poster, but damn right I can't.
I can't watch a video of Blackfoot and Mohawk skywalkers doing ironwork a hundred floors up, and have to look away while sitting in a comfy chair!
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posted on
03/20/2007 10:10:05 AM PDT
by
Gorzaloon
(Global Warming: A New Kind Of Scientology for the Rest Of Us.)
To: pgkdan
The Eiffel Tower elevators are exposed to an outside view as well. My daughter almost lost it on the way up.
To: fatnotlazy
Many years ago, I took one of those plane rides into the canyon...We did that too in the mid-70s. What was more dangerous than usual about it?
69
posted on
03/20/2007 10:39:11 AM PDT
by
GATOR NAVY
(QMC(SW) Ret.)
To: Stoat
I'm scared of heights and my stomach is turning just reading about it.
You couldn't pay me enough to get on that thing!
To: Stoat; Terpin
Looks like BASE jumpers have something new to play with!
In that case, I'm sure that the Arizona State Police (or Tribal Police) will be delighted to build a stylish police station down in the bottom of the Canyon below the Skywalk, perhaps incorporating a giant funnel to catch the jumpers and feed them directly into the holding cells :-) Interesting thought. But think about it. Most BASE jumpers have a way to escape after landing. In the Grand Canyon, unless you have a mule or helicopter already waiting at the bottom - you have no way out. And God help you if you land in the Colorado River (wearing a 'chute) instead of on one of its narrow beaches. Then, you'll just eventually end up stuck in the grates at Boulder Dam.
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posted on
03/20/2007 10:50:11 AM PDT
by
HiJinx
(Ask me about Troop Support...)
To: Stoat
I can see how they'd make some serious money here. I'd pay 'em $25 to go out there and another hunnert to send somebody out to pry my fingers from the railing with a crowbar and carry my gibbering carcass back to solid ground.
To: Moonmad27; Trailerpark Badass; Gorzaloon; All
I'm sitting here at my desk reeling, just from looking at the pictures!
It's almost like you feel like if you get close to the edge, you can't stop yourself from throwing yourself off.
I'm getting sick just talking about it, LOL!
To: ryan71
I love to fly but watching a movie with people hanging from a building makes me sweatWhen we rented King Kong, during certain points in the movie I started pacing the floor, breathing fast. I just couldn't watch it.
To: Billthedrill
To: Stoat; HairOfTheDog; SuziQ; g'nad; Lil'freeper; 2Jedismom; Overtaxed; osagebowman; JenB; ...
Since I had to escorted out of the St. Louis Arch, which is ~enclosed~, I think I'll pass on this one.
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posted on
03/20/2007 11:07:40 AM PDT
by
Corin Stormhands
(http://www.virginiaisforrudy.com * http://wardsmythe.com * http://www.rudyblogs.com)
To: WBL 1952
Non-Indians could never have built this monstrosity. Why is it a "monstrosity"? I think they did an excellent job of fitting it into the landscape. I can't wait to go on it.
To: Corin Stormhands
Yeah, I could see the possibility of panic attacks all around.
78
posted on
03/20/2007 11:19:24 AM PDT
by
SuziQ
To: Corin Stormhands
LOL! No kidding. I saw this earlier today and it doesn't appeal to me at ALL.
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posted on
03/20/2007 11:19:52 AM PDT
by
2Jedismom
(Expect me when you see me!)
To: Stoat
Just offering a comparison ... this glass overlook thingy lets you look straight down, and see rock ... 4000' below. BUT, you're surrounded by glass. Unless the structure collapses, you can't fall off.
OTOH, there are plenty of places where you can look straight down, and see the solid rock you're standing on. BUT you're just a few feet from a precipice, on at least two sides, and there's no railing, no wall, nothing but a whole lot of wind.
I'm going to have to check out the glass thing ... just to see which is more gut-dropping.
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posted on
03/20/2007 11:23:40 AM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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