Afraid of heights? Dont go here!
 

Grand Canyon Skywalk

Scheduled to open Jan. 1, 2006 Hualapai Indian Reservation

* Juts about 70 feet into the canyon, 4000 ft above Colorado River

* Will accommodate 120 people comfortably (how comfortable would you be?)

* Built with more than a million pounds of steel beams, and includes

dampeners that minimize the structure's vibration

* Designed to hold 72 million pounds, withstand an 8.0 magnitude

earthquake 50 miles away, and withstand winds in excess of 100 mph

* The walkway has a glass bottom and sides...four inches thick

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True!:)

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Wouldn't the ability to hold 72 mill pounds seem like overkill for 120 people? Could 4 inches of glass withstand 72 million pounds of pressure?

Looks like a trip to walk out onto that clear platform.

120 people? 72,000,000 lbs?

Are Americans really getting that fat?

NO FRIKKIN WAY IN H377 WOULD I GO ON THAT THING!!!!!!!

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I got the wim-wams just thinking about it!

Yowza, that would be a helluvan experience

Looks like a toilet seat. I'd be affraid of getting flushed.

"Paul Bunyan's Crapper."

I'd pay $25 for that. They should do bunjee jumping off of it. Now that would be really cool!

Looks like a base jumper's wet dream.

I dips me lid to the guys that built it.

It's the $25 spent just to look through glass that'd get me sick...

I could do that with a long 1 x 8, some 2 x 4's for a lot less!! And it will give much more thrills then their's!!:eek:

Oh hell no!!
I had a hard enough time at the other overlooks.
By the way I proposed at Mathers Point.
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i was thinking the same thing :cool:

Base only made me want to stay home and look out the peep-hole, wide awake.

Didn't Frank Lloyd Wright smash that 3rds theory?

Frank Lloyd was a spectacular architect but a sh_t engineer. His homes have stress cracks runnning through out them and are all said to be very unstable. Google it.