Reply With QuoteIs this a matter of opinion or do you mean what's the quickest route?
I would however take the bridge.
Here’s one I just put to Mrs Draft.
There are two skyscrapers, one on each side of the street. They are connected by a bridge at the 65th floor. The bridge has a glass floor so you can see the street, cars, pedestrians etc 65 storeys below if you look straight down while crossing.
You’re at a meeting on the 65th floor in one building. Lunch is served on the 65th floor in the other building.
Do you walk across the bridge? Or do you take the lift 65 floors down, cross the street and take the other lift 65 floors up again.
Mrs Draft would opt for lift-cross-lift. I’d do the bridge of course.
Is this a matter of opinion or do you mean what's the quickest route?
I would however take the bridge.
LOL!
I think most men would do the bridge and probably 50/50 on the ladies, no science involved just a gut feeling.
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2 lifts for me. Glass floors = Code Brown.
65th floor? Balls to the glass bridge AND the lift, I'll grab a hot-dog and meet you in a (ground floor) bar in a bit.
I don't eat lunch so no dilemma :p
For any other reason though, why wouldn't I take the bridge? I'm very bad with heights, but that's because I think I'll fall. Bridge would be cool.
Originally Posted by kevkojak
I'll grab a hot-dog and meet you in a (ground floor) bar in a bit.
Sounds perfect Kev. Just ketchup on mine please
What's being served for lunch? Might make a difference.
Depends on how hungry I was and prevailing weather conditions.
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Bridge for sure! Couldn't be bothered with the faff of the up/down with the lifts.
I'd take the bridge, through laziness rather than bravery.
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Bridge for me. I’m not a fan of heights but common sense says if it’s there it’s safe.
Easy. I'd take the bridge. In fact I'd take the bridge even if there was no lunch at the other side just for the fun of it. I'm far more comfortable at heights than in confined spaces anyway, so two extra lift journeys are not an attractive proposition.
Meanwhile in China...
Lifts for me. I suffer from L'appel du vide.
I've no problem at all with heights, but the high level glass floor platforms or bridges are a bit disconcerting. I walked across the glass floor of the Sky Tower in Auckland (think it's about the 50th floor), the glass is 1.5" thick, I can say it definitely made me a little unsteady. It was hilarious to see some people crawl across on all fours! Even if you know it's completely safe I guess the brain can still play tricks...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Tower_(Auckland)
The high level walkway of Tower Bridge also has some glass floor sections. My kids played on them, my wife crawled round the edge, so maybe it's an age thing?
Absolutely definitely an age thing. When I was younger (in the Merchant Navy) heights held no bother at all for me, I cringe when I think about what I did in engine rooms. Now passed 40 I seize up above 4meters high regularly...
One senses ones finite presence on this earth !
I see absolutely no attraction in going anywhere near such things
I would take a day off work, buy my own ticket to the city in question and go up to the 65th floor just to cross the bridge while admiring the view. I'd even pay for lunch.
When I used to visit Bang & Olufsen's HQ offices called 'The Farm' in Denmark, (it had cattle and sheep grazing under it!) a lot of the floors and stairways were glass which was a bit unnerving (but perfectly safe) Of course female staff wore trousers. Fascinating place to see....
https://www.beoworld.org/article_view.asp?id=27
You Sir, clearly have balls of steel. I salute you
I’d be a blubbering mess
I'm fine with heights, it's depths that scare the crap out of me.You Sir, clearly have balls of steel. I salute you
I’d be a blubbering mess
I work in the Lift Industry, so obviously I would take the bridge.
Ditto. Last week at the yacht show a colleague was drooling over a miniature submarine. The thought of going underwater in something about the size of a washing machine scares the bejesus out of me.I'm fine with heights, it's depths that scare the crap out of me.
For me it's all about mineshafts, specifically falling down one and breaking your back and foot. Then having to get back out again before you can even think about being rescued.
Well I’d also pay to cross the bridge
What's the dilemma?
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
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Not sure, but I think some members are worried their mangina' could be seen through a glass bridge
mike
PMSL!Not sure, but I think some members are worried their mangina' could be seen through a glass bridge
mike
Fas est ab hoste doceri
Perhaps a leisurely swim across?
I would cover it in washing up liquid and water and slide naked across it for fun
RIAC
Now that could be an Olympic sport!
Having stood on a glass floored platform that jutted out from the top of at least one very tall building I'd walk over the bridge. These things are way over-engineered.
Probably not if I was wearing a kilt though.
I have no issue with heights providing that whatever I am on is secure and stable.
This is because I do have an issue with falling and would like to avoid it.
As for the bridge, I'd use it and take my time looking down to ensure I enjoyed the view.
I had a Chinese girlfriend who wouldn't walk across the section of glass floor in Tower Records at Piccadilly, a dizzying height of (at a guess) 10 ft from the floor of the basement below.
I remember a few years ago heading up Blackpool tower with work colleagues during a conference. Plucked up the courage to stand on the glass & then someone jumped onto it next to me - called him a few 4 letter words & then realised it was the MD lol!
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Definitely the bridge for me. I used to be terrified of heights but that has completely gone. I now rather enjoy them although I do ‘suffer’ from ‘High Place Phenomenon’. Apparently the name that has been given for the urge to jump of high places.
Hard to say.
I hate heights like that and 65 floors is a hell of a height!
That said, I tend to trust engineering, so I would probably do the bridge but feel dizzy doing so!
M
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I’d be taking the lift. I’ve done parachute and bungee jumps but have a fear of heights! It took me about 30 minutes to pick up the courage to walk on the glass floor on the cn tower in Toronto and even then I had to slide on to it backwards before I stood up on it.
I'm not scared of height per se just of falling - so I'm fine as long as I "feel safe".
Thus - glass bridge - no problem at all (jumped up and down on the glass floor in the CN Tower).
I have to either have a railing of at least half my height or about 2/3 my height distance to the edge of a structure to "feel safe" (wind conditions make a difference too). So - I can walk along cliff edges up to about 4 feet from the edge - closer than that and I start to get twitchy.
Mark C
Your fun rather than observers', presumably!!
Coming soon in Nine Elms...Perhaps a leisurely swim across?
Links to two YouTube videos for you:
You can find a nice restaurant in one of our northern cities, with a mind boggling interior. One of the funny parts of the restaurant is the 'all you can eat dessert' buffet. But... to reach the buffet, you have to walk over a glass floor... When you fill your plate, you're on... a glass floor. Initially, the architects considered a shattered glass floor at the end of the buffet! But that was too much according to some.
Menno
You may not have realised this but the lifts up the Toronto CN Tower have glass floors.
People were reluctant to use them so they covered them with carpet. Problem solved!
Bridge without a doubt
LOL ... friend of mine used to work in the lift industry and again would do anything to avoid lifts .. not for fear of life but because they get stuck all too often apparently ...
I did get trapped in a broken lift once, in a small office block in Malta. It was one of those 2-3 person lifts. It was August. It wasn’t air-conditioned. I was there for over an hour until the engineer came and freed me. Not a great experience.
Unless it has no sides, I can't imagine a glass bottomed bridge gives that same feeling of exposure that say scrambling a ridge gives you.
As someone else said, is this a sheet of glass with no sides or an enclosed bridge?
At 65 floors up, it would probably need to be a glass corridor.
I don't like heights (crossing the glass floor in the Spinnaker Tower is stressful for me, not particularly but it requires a conscious decision), but I'd probably make myself take the bridge (65 floors, you'd probably lose the impression of height, much as you do in a plane), unless the lift was a superfast one, because I rather enjoy those!
M
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