Wow

[cjsmith]

Now THIS would be a COOL JOB. Look, Ma, no feet!

glumbert.com - High Power Job

Might suck in bad weather though.

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[sunnydale47.livejournal.com]

WOW! You wouldn't catch me crawling around up there like that, though! My acrophobia has never been triggered simply by height, but only by fear of falling -- close to edges or on high things that appear flimsy. I can stand on the 86th floor observatory of the Empire State Building, with its very secure fencing, with no fear, and I can fly with no fear. I used to be afraid to go out on our 4th floor fire escape, though, and crossing a narrow bridge with no railings -- even a low one -- was out of the question. I couldn't even climb to the top of a 3-foot kitchen stepladder!

I've conquered the acrophobia for the most part, by self-programmed exposure therapy (I climbed up a 3-foot stepladder until I got comfortable with it, then moved to a 6-foot stepladder, and eventually an extension ladder.) I've helped install a large 2-meter antenna on a peaked roof of a two-story house. I walked on this bridge (http://www.petitmonde.com/cd_images/doc_29322_canyon.jpg) without fear. But there's no way I would crawl around on high-tension lines, or even sit on the outside of a helicopter, regardless of how easy that guy makes it look!

It's an amazing video, though!

On another subject, how did you embed the video? I tried to embed some glumbert.com videos a week or two ago, and failed completely.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I fear falling too, but I can learn to trust various things -- wings, a rock climbing rope, perhaps a high tension wire.

They changed it so you can embed more stuff now.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I'm very similar, I can climb a ladder until the top of it is below my hips, then I start to feel unprotected. I can ride a glass elevator, but I can't walk across a rope bridge. I need to know that if I slip and fall, I won't go anywhere.

I might be able to ride that helicopter seat on the outside, well strapped in -- I love amusement park rides, for instance -- but I'd be physically unable to move my body onto the cables.

I can't imagine walking out that new Grand Canyon walkway, either, even though it's got substantial railings. I might feel differently presented with it face to face, but the pictures make me shudder.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

There's a Grand Canyon WALKWAY?? Oh man, Google Images here I come.

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Oh. Um. Okay, that might make me twitch too, and I frankly LOVE heights. Hmm.

(Hiking the Canyon again was on my list of "in the next five years" before my feet went south. That, a marathon, Half Dome again, and Mount Whitney.)

[bastette-joyce.livejournal.com]

I can't imagine walking out that new Grand Canyon walkway, either, even though it's got substantial railings. I might feel differently presented with it face to face, but the pictures make me shudder.

Me, too! All I would be able to think about would be, "What if whatever is holding this thing up collapses??"

[eichin.livejournal.com]

What's holding it up is "leverage" :-) There's some enormous amount of counterweight, pretty far in from the edge, plus very deep anchors... There are some construction photos out there, I need to go see it just as an example of Glorious Engineering...