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11-17-2005, 09:14 AM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Houston, TX
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Break out the Depends!
There is no way I could get on this thing.....
New Grand Canyon Sky walk
* Scheduled to open Jan. 1, 2006 Hualapai Indian Reservation
* Juts about 70 feet into the canyon, 4000 ft above the Colorado River
* Will accommodate 120 people comfortably
* Built with more than a million pounds of steel beams, and includes dampeners that minimize the structure's vibration.
* Designed to hold 72 million pounds, withstand an 8.0 magnitude earthquake 50 miles away, and withstand winds in excess of 100 mph
* The walkway has a glass bottom and sides...four inches thick
http://www.destinationgrandcanyon.com/pressrelease.html
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11-17-2005, 10:20 AM
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Duper Mod !
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Illinois
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Looks Cool to me! But then I liked the roller coaster on top of the stratospehere in Vegas
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11-17-2005, 02:59 PM
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Oh no...not again!!!
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Colorado Springs
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Eww...I don't mind being $%#% (sorry still classified) feet underwater in a cramped rustbucket submarine but looking over the balcony at the Luxor on the 28th floor scared me.
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11-17-2005, 10:53 PM
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BIG SMELLY MOD
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Livingston Parish, Denham Springs, Louisiana
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Looks like it will be someplace to go .
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11-17-2005, 11:54 PM
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I've got the REEF rash!
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 26,380
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Very cool!
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11-18-2005, 12:09 AM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Jan 1999
Location: Southern Oregon, Way West of Dimples ;)
Posts: 22,364
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I am with you Perry, no way
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The heroism of the losing side rarely gets remembered
but we were all husbands and fathers, sons and bros
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11-18-2005, 02:53 AM
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The Ninja MOD
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Planet P.....Why Me?
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Hmmm, might have to go visit the Grand Canyon! I like getting the bejesus scared out of me! Wonder when the first BASE jumper will jump it?
Robert
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If you feel so angry, so ripped off, so stepped on,
You're not the only one refusing to back down
You're not the only one
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11-18-2005, 10:01 AM
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Admin/ Super mod
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: New Castle, Delaware
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hmmmm, oks cool but looks like an accident waiting to happen
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need something to read? just ask me.
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11-19-2005, 12:13 AM
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Birthday tracker
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Spartanburg, SC USA
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That's easy for me! NO WAY. I get the shivvers from just looking at the site. 
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11-20-2005, 12:23 PM
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TRT Staff The Mominator
Join Date: Jan 1999
Location: Just South Of Seattle
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I don't mind heights but wow, that looks like something Wile E Coyote ordered from Acme! It looks like a big diving board!
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