http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1196967/Dont-look-Terrifying-view-glass-box-balcony-jutting-skyscrapers-103rd-floor.html

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"Not content with having the tallest building in America, the owners of Sears Tower in Chicago have installed four glass box viewing platforms which stick out of the building 103 floors up. The balconies are suspended 1,353 feet in the air and jut out four feet from the building's Skydeck. "

7/4/2009 12:21:36 AM

I would die.

7/4/2009 12:22:37 AM

7/4/2009 12:24:17 AM

my palms got sweaty looking at those pics lol

[Edited on July 4, 2009 at 12:27 AM. Reason : lol]

7/4/2009 12:26:55 AM

I just want to know how thick the glass is. Once I know how thick it is I'd be OK with walking on it. Heights aren't that big a deal as long as mentally I know I'm walking on something solid.

7/4/2009 12:28:20 AM

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"The balconies are 10ft high and 10ft wide, can hold five tons, and have glass which is 1.5 inch thick."

7/4/2009 12:32:29 AM

Yeah, I'm sure they'd put use thin, flimsy glass for that.

7/4/2009 12:32:44 AM

wouldnt phase me...would be cool though...i bet cleaning them sucks

7/4/2009 12:33:58 AM

This gives me the heebee-jeebees just looking at it from my 2nd floor apartment.

7/4/2009 12:34:05 AM

THINGS TO DO WHILE DOING DRUGS!

Add this to that list, my friends.

You might actually feel like superman... Maybe... I don't know how drugs work on ya (never used shit like that).

But now I'm interested in walking on one of these balconies at some point in the future. I wonder if the Navy has any business dealings in Chicago which I could fly out there for at some point in the future.

7/4/2009 12:34:34 AM

The CN Tower in Toronto has a glass floor. It was pretty rad to walk on.

7/4/2009 12:37:34 AM

they had one of these for the tower in calgary, i jumped up and down and almost shit myself

7/4/2009 12:38:43 AM

They have one of these in the Petronas Towers when i went

7/4/2009 12:39:51 AM

little kid pictures ehy

7/4/2009 12:42:30 AM

^yeah, i had to find one that didn't focus on the little kids for the first pic

7/4/2009 12:43:47 AM

Grand Canyon Skywalk

7/4/2009 12:44:45 AM

as scary as it looks, I'd have to go out on it.

7/4/2009 12:56:37 AM

falling off the sears tower would be a cool way to die

7/4/2009 1:52:37 AM

I hate heights.

7/4/2009 2:33:40 AM

next time we're downtown, we're totally doing that

7/4/2009 2:37:07 AM

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"This gives me the heebee-jeebees just looking at it from my 2nd floor apartment."

the sears tower i could do. The grand canion skywalk.... only if gagged, bound to a dolly, and rolled on

7/4/2009 10:23:00 AM

7/4/2009 10:26:02 AM

the london eye orbs are all glass, too. i don't think these things would phase me much. i'm not really scared of heights.

7/4/2009 10:47:32 AM

7/4/2009 10:48:57 AM

London Eye isn't scary at all, overrated, but still worth riding

as for the other two in this thread, I'd love to do them, grand canyon wouldnt be bad out on it, just looking at it from a distance it looks pretty unsafe (of course it's not)

7/4/2009 10:54:00 AM

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"The CN Tower in Toronto has a glass floor. It was pretty rad to walk on."

Yep. This looks cooler in that you're just surrounded by glass, though.

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"the london eye orbs are all glass, too. "

well, yeah, but you're not standing on it. it's just a big, enclosed Ferris wheel.

7/4/2009 10:57:48 AM

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"i bet cleaning them sucks"

I saw a video on this the other day that showed how the whole balcony is hooked up to a track that allows the balconies to be pulled inside the building for easy cleaning

also, the balconies can support 5 tons of weight

7/4/2009 11:11:12 AM

f- this mess... i'll be that "pussy" sitting by the elevator while all yall go do this...

7/4/2009 11:15:10 AM

3 year old girl >>>>>>>>>>>>> Biopussy70

7/4/2009 11:22:32 AM

7/4/2009 11:43:34 AM

I would pee myself.

7/4/2009 11:50:04 AM

you would like that wouldn't you

7/4/2009 12:10:50 PM

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This looks like something out of star wars to me. Mostly because it looks impossible, it's in the middle of a desert, and I'm expecting a hutt to walk out onto it.

7/4/2009 12:22:32 PM

fuck

that

7/4/2009 12:28:10 PM

^^I thought the same thing

7/4/2009 12:31:37 PM

7/4/2009 3:00:10 PM

Quote :

"The CN Tower in Toronto has a glass floor. It was pretty rad to walk on."

I shit my pants on this back in the day.

7/4/2009 3:07:40 PM

reminds me of some li wei photographs

7/4/2009 3:14:28 PM

if there's enclosure I can feel I'm ok with heights

but I could never do this

7/5/2009 4:27:35 PM

^ i'm guessing those guys weren't in a union.

7/5/2009 4:31:01 PM

^that picture is a giant poster in our kitchen, i cant look at it too long without getting the heebie jeebies

7/5/2009 4:31:01 PM

Where'd you manage to get a poster like that? What a great, original idea. Is it next to your 16x20 glossy, unframed and hung with thumbtacks Starry Night print?

7/5/2009 4:40:41 PM

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"if there's enclosure I can feel I'm ok with heights "

Same here... I'm not afraid of heights, I'm afraid of the risk of falling.

7/5/2009 4:48:08 PM

^^You like being a smart ass don't you?

7/6/2009 12:13:15 AM

I, too, have seen that picture of the guys on the beam before. I think it's pretty neat. OSHA would not like.

7/6/2009 12:20:20 AM

FUCK NO

OH MY GOD NO

7/6/2009 12:21:12 AM

i heard there was like 20,000 people who died while building the empire state building
nowadays noone could get a away with a 1/10th of that casualties

7/6/2009 12:23:51 AM

^looks like it was closer to 20. about 30 have jumped off it to commit suicide though, including one in january. weird. seems like you'd hear about it.

7/6/2009 12:57:59 AM

the jumping... no

9/25/2009 12:55:02 AM

haha..you know everyone would be giving them evil looks

9/25/2009 12:57:43 AM