Afraid of heights? Dont go here!

P0WER · 10-31-2005, 09:27 AM

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

kach22i · kach22i's Garage

True!

http://www.snopes.com/photos/architecture/skywalk.asp

RickM · RickM's Garage

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.

techweenie · techweenie's Garage

120 people? 72,000,000 lbs?

Are Americans really getting that fat?

cashflyer · 10-31-2005, 09:46 AM

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

notfarnow · 10-31-2005, 10:00 AM

I got the wim-wams just thinking about it!

TerryBPP · 10-31-2005, 10:08 AM

masraum · 10-31-2005, 10:10 AM

Yowza, that would be a helluvan experience

Jeff Higgins · 10-31-2005, 10:13 AM

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

legion · 10-31-2005, 10:17 AM

"Paul Bunyan's Crapper."

EdT82SC · 10-31-2005, 02:35 PM

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

Schrup · Schrup's Garage

Looks like a base jumper's wet dream.

stuartj · 10-31-2005, 02:43 PM

I dips me lid to the guys that built it.

dd74 · 10-31-2005, 02:53 PM

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

89911 · 10-31-2005, 08:40 PM

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!!

austin552 · austin552's Garage

Oh hell no!!
I had a hard enough time at the other overlooks.
By the way I proposed at Mathers Point.

}{arlequin · }{arlequin's Garage

Quote:

Originally posted by Schrup
Looks like a base jumper's wet dream.

i was thinking the same thing

Mulhollanddose · 10-31-2005, 08:56 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Schrup
Looks like a base jumper's wet dream.

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

Mulhollanddose · 10-31-2005, 09:23 PM

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

TerryBPP · 11-01-2005, 05:24 AM

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.