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The sky doesn't lie, though.
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Even tilted that gives me the shakes :p
@Bruce - eww...no way dewd |
In that first cliff picture, the distortion isn't a tilt; it's a fisheye. I think it was probably pretty much vertical originally, but the horizon looked tilted because it was curved down as it moved away from center, and that fact was hidden on the right side by the cliff.
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I think you're right.
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OK, I'll just post this and then stop.
The young smartly dressed male in the photo above must be like lots of young males who don't consider that they can die. Here he is in a collection of short animated GIFs, climbing the face of Half Dome without any safety ropes. Safety ropes, when used by a skilled climber, don't do anything and basically just get in the way and slow you down. But you use them for a reason. In a three hour climb, where you get a new new handhold or foothold about 10,000 times, you have 10,000 chances to make a mistake that kills you. You may have mad skillz and great stamina, but the math is going to eventually work against you. |
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...and on the way back he did it blindfolded! http://s22.postimg.org/lczhm47dt/nik_wallenda.jpg Just the thought of this endeavour brings me out in a cold sweat. I take my hat off to the chap for having the courage to do it, but I still have to ask myself 'why'? National Post |
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I agree with the why, but I suppose it's better than working at walmart. |
Bewildering and horrifying in equal measure. |
I would rather eat a tarantula (sorry Clod-babies, but they do in Cambodia, ask Mummy never to tell you how people survived the Khemer Rouge).
No more heights please. |
Nope nope nope. Give me heights over spiders any day of the week. Even Monday. Funny I'm more afraid of things that probably won't hurt me than things that are obviously dangerous. Well, actually, I won't be crossing anything on a wire, but those glass platform things don't bother me. And spiders chase me, I know they're trying to kill me. They would if they could. I see it in their multiple eyes. *shudders*
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I had and worked out of a 52 foot bucket truck. That was plenty for me.
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I spent a while trying to figure out exactly where they walked. In Google Earth, Victoria Falls is 1.1 miles long, but they use a Big Shot Pro line launcher to get the line over to the other side, and the Big Shot Pro can only shoot up in the air about 100 feet or so. So I imagine at a 45 degree angle, it can go about 200 feet. That's far short of the 1.1 miles they would need. (I want a Big Shot launcher, by the way.)
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Another one from the heights department.
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