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Posted on 08/01/2007 3:41:49 AM PDT by Webby_surfer
A famous urban climber Alain Robert, aka Spiderman, who has “conquered” the Eiffel’s Tower, Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, and Empire State Building, is coming to Moscow to climb the highest building in Europe – the Federation Tower.
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What’s not to like about this guy. He’s probably a little crazy, but he has guts!
Moscow ain’t in Europe.
Isn’t west of the Urals Europe? Or did I flunk geography?
If Moscow is in Europe, they’ve changed the maps.
I’m sure Mr Putin would like to have his military back in Europe, though. :)
Moscow is in Europe
Inside the Urals, yup, quite right.
I always thought of it as more Eurasia.
I wish him good luck.
The Federation Tower is a really nice building.
I want to see more of skyscrapers here in Europe. There’s no conflict between preserving our old historical city centers and building new, exciting structures.
By the way, here’s a clip featuring another legend, Felix Baumgartner, jumping from the tallest skyscraper in Sweden (my country), called ‘Turning Torso’ (it’s actually a twisting and turning skyscraper! A true gem of architecture created by Spanish genius Calatrava);
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUXjEd83mwI
“Isn’t west of the Urals Europe?”
- Yes it is.
Therefore, Moscow is in Europe.
What is it that I win, anyway?
“What is it that I win, anyway?”
- If you ever visit Sweden, you will be bestowed the honor of cleaning my car :-D
Seriously, I’ll buy you a drink or something if we ever meet, just because you asked!
Greetings from Europe!
Back in the 80s there was “Spider†Dan Goodwin, who attempted to climb the Sears Tower here in Chicago. He developed these cool ratchet type climbers to utilize the tracks built into the side of the building for the automatic window washers. But he had a back up system, which he needed to utilize when the Chicago Police and Fire Departments removed some windows in his path. He exited the tracks and went to a suction cup system to move laterally along the building to another track. Eventually, and as God is my witness this happened, they shot water at the man, presumably to “discourage†him, as he clung there hundreds of feet up.
Here’s the original http://www.suntimes.com/realchicago/1980s/6.html
So will Spider Pig be with him?
In our society it’s evil for him to display passion and pursue it without abandon.
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