I've seen this before, but I don't think I cross-posted it previously.
Biggest balls ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yCYZZPwJr_c
Im not afraid to admit it. I couldn't do it, no matter how much you paid me. :-X
Oh, I have trouble even thinking about doing it. Actually doing it never even occurred to me.
That was freaky. I had to make myself watch the last of it :P
GAH! :o Yeah, I can't even imagine actually doing that.
It seems like a stupid design to me. Things that would make that safer are not expensive.
Quote from: Mr. Bigglesworth on December 13, 2012, 01:58:30 AM
It seems like a stupid design to me. Things that would make that safer are not expensive.
The problem is that whoever came up with changes would have to climb up there to put them in place. ;D
the job doesnt bug me that much, nor the height.
the perspective of that video being shot with a helmet cam while that climber looks up and down all the time give me vertigo.
Quote from: TheCommandTent on December 12, 2012, 11:06:08 PM
Im not afraid to admit it. I couldn't do it, no matter how much you paid me. :-X
Same here. I got clammy just from watching that! :o
Pretty impressive!
The narrator said you could see 55 miles from the top. Shouldn't it be more like several hundred miles?
Quote from: TheCommandTent on December 12, 2012, 11:06:08 PM
Im not afraid to admit it. I couldn't do it, no matter how much you paid me. :-X
Yeah man. I'd like to think that I could do it for $1 million, but I don't think that I could. Not even $10 million. Maybe if I spent a year or two training how to overcome my own instincts, but if someone came up to me tomorrow and said "40, tax-free 10 mill if you climb to the top of that tower." Well, there is just no way! I wouldn't even make it half way. I can even climb all the stairs in the fricken Statue of Liberty!!
^I might consider it if I could be tethered to the tower the entire way and wear a parachute. But those guys were free climbing and only tied to the tower when they took a break during climbing! :o
Quote from: TheCommandTent on December 14, 2012, 08:35:42 AM
^I might consider it if I could be tethered to the tower the entire way and wear a parachute. But those guys were free climbing and only tied to the tower when they took a break during climbing! :o
I might try it under those conditions as well, for a million + dollars. I'd also need to wear gloves, as my hands would be too sweaty to get a good grip. And I'd need to have a sunny (hmmm, maybe cloudy would be better), calm, temperate day.
Quote from: TheCommandTent on December 14, 2012, 08:35:42 AM
^I might consider it if I could be tethered to the tower the entire way and wear a parachute. But those guys were free climbing and only tied to the tower when they took a break during climbing! :o
I'd want a chute too. I don't think I'd mind being the height, but being up on that antenna, totally exposed, with just those little handholds to grab onto - no thanks. Even if by some miracle I made it up, I think I'd lose it on the climb back down.
Quote from: mirth on December 14, 2012, 08:58:45 AM
Quote from: TheCommandTent on December 14, 2012, 08:35:42 AM
^I might consider it if I could be tethered to the tower the entire way and wear a parachute. But those guys were free climbing and only tied to the tower when they took a break during climbing! :o
I'd want a chute too. I don't think I'd mind being the height, but being up on that antenna, totally exposed, with just those little handholds to grab onto - no thanks. Even if by some miracle I made it up, I think I'd lose it on the climb back down.
I'd take up a few mg of atavan, or something like that for the trip back. Mind you, if the deal was that I get the million for the trip up, and it didn't require a trip down, then I'd dial 911 at the top and try to get plucked-off by a helo rescue crew. I'd pay for the ride out of my earnings.
I could do it for a million. Of course, after taxes and weeks of therapy with a shrink afterwards, there wouldn't be much left.
Quote from: Steelgrave on December 14, 2012, 09:37:58 AM
I could do it for a million. Of course, after taxes and weeks of therapy with a shrink afterwards, there wouldn't be much left.
I'll be we use the same therapist. Guy named Jack Daniels?
^That's the one. And his cousin, Crown Royal.
I don't think there's enough Jack or Crown on the entire planet that could make go up there in the first place, much less help me recover from the ordeal.
Quote from: Martok on December 14, 2012, 11:06:30 AM
I don't think there's enough Jack or Crown on the entire planet that could make go up there in the first place, much less help me recover from the ordeal.
God help you if you happened to find a cobweb halfway up!
Cobwebs I can handle. It's the demon-Hellspawn-bastards that live in them I can't take. :P
Ain't no way in hell I could climb that!