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