From: John De Armond Newsgroups: rec.outdoors.rv-travel Subject: Re: Has anyone visited that big walkout glass deck at the Grand Can... Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:28:42 -0400 Message-ID: <i67v23la1n5qgchij9hphqv7qhcfup1h5a@4ax.com> On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 06:35:04 -0500, DaveInLakeVilla@webtv.net (Dave in Lake Villa) wrote: >'I guarantee I'd be on my hands and knees on that thing, slowly crawling >back to the entrance. >RCE' > >REPLY: I think id be ok so long as i look straight ahead ; but if i >looked down once i got all the way out ... id go into shock and >collapse... and theyd have to literally drag me out. Ill check the >Skywalk thread of 4-20. Thanks. I don't think it will be bad. They built a glass bottomed pedestrian bridge in Chattanooga as part of the tourist trap, er, Aquarium development. I visited about a week after it opened. The glass was already so dirty and scratched from the grit on peoples' shoes that peering down through the glass to the interstate far below gave no sense of height. More like watching a movie on a dirty drive-in screen I just can't imagine the glass staying clear enough to permit much of a feeling of height. Even if they have some sort of fancy shoe scrubbing machine, some grit will remain embedded in soles. John From: John De Armond Newsgroups: rec.outdoors.rv-travel Subject: Re: Has anyone visited that big walkout glass deck at the Grand Can... Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:32:22 -0400 Message-ID: <ddev23t45bjeiku32qoa6t8uspfjmsmmqm@4ax.com> On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:09:49 -0600, "Jeff Deeney" <jeff.nospam.deeney@hp.com> wrote: >> >> I just can't imagine the glass staying clear enough to permit much of >> a feeling of height. Even if they have some sort of fancy shoe >> scrubbing machine, some grit will remain embedded in soles. > >You are required to don special provided slippers for the Skywalk. I figured they might do that. That'll only delay the inevitable. Sand/ grit will drop off peoples' clothes and even their bodies and get ground in by the shoe covers. Maybe they'll bring in glass polishers every so often. Even with perfectly clear glass I still can't imagine much of a feeling of height. Too much glare and reflections. I know that when peering into a nuclear plant spent fuel pit that is >100 ft deep but filled with crystal clear water, there is no feeling of height. Though I'm not afraid of heights per se (I readily climb radio towers and telephone poles), I do get a queasy feeling when I step up to the edge of a roof. No sensation of that at all when looking into the spent fuel pit. It'll be interesting to see what actual visitors report. John |