Author Topic: Never in a million years…  (Read 160280 times)

Steph

  • Fast. Fast and bulbous. But fluffy.
Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #225 on: 25 February, 2018, 11:59:37 am »
Not that worrying at all. I suggest you google Glen Coe Five Points of Contact...
Mae angen arnaf i byw, a fe fydda'i

Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #226 on: 25 February, 2018, 12:38:13 pm »
How about SkyCycle in Japan?

Waaah! I've looked up at that a few times from the town at the bottom of the hill.
Had. No. Idea.

woollypigs

  • Mr Peli
    • woollypigs
Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #227 on: 04 May, 2018, 05:29:30 pm »
Current mood: AARRRGGGGHHHHH !!! #bollockstobrexit

Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #228 on: 04 May, 2018, 09:50:22 pm »
The movie is pretty good, and not all sweaty palmed thrills. I quite like Mr MacFarlane’s writing too.


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Steph

  • Fast. Fast and bulbous. But fluffy.
Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #229 on: 05 May, 2018, 07:34:15 pm »
I suppose it is an experience thing. If you are, or have been, a climber, the effect of some of the exposure (long drops/verticality) wears off. On the other hand, the knowledge of what can go wrong doesn't...
Mae angen arnaf i byw, a fe fydda'i

Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #230 on: 14 May, 2018, 06:56:59 pm »
Crewmen of the airship “Graf Zeppelin” repair the hull during a flight over the Atlantic, 1934:

https://twitter.com/at_RIN/status/995355446839054336
"He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." ~ Freidrich Neitzsche

Steph

  • Fast. Fast and bulbous. But fluffy.
Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #231 on: 17 May, 2018, 05:19:27 am »
The WWI Zeps used this as well. Bit lonely...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spy_basket
Mae angen arnaf i byw, a fe fydda'i

T42

  • Apprentice geezer
Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #232 on: 17 May, 2018, 08:01:33 am »
Crewmen of the airship “Graf Zeppelin” repair the hull during a flight over the Atlantic, 1934:

https://twitter.com/at_RIN/status/995355446839054336

I wonder if they used crampons...
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #233 on: 18 May, 2018, 05:53:40 am »
I doubt they had much choice with a hole that big.

I think the "hole" off to the lower right in the photo is an access hatch to get on the top.  The Hydrogen was in "bags" inside the skin.

Cudzoziemiec

  • Ride adventurously and stop for a brew.
Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #234 on: 18 May, 2018, 08:34:52 am »
It looks rather jagged to be an access hatch. They don't seem to be paying it much attention though.
Riding a concrete path through the nebulous and chaotic future.

Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #235 on: 21 May, 2018, 02:33:23 am »


woollypigs

  • Mr Peli
    • woollypigs
Current mood: AARRRGGGGHHHHH !!! #bollockstobrexit

Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #238 on: 22 March, 2019, 12:25:26 pm »
Duct tape is magic and should be worshipped

Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #239 on: 26 May, 2020, 12:14:20 am »

Riggers

  • Mine's a pipe, er… pint!
Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #240 on: 26 May, 2020, 10:28:04 am »
Thanks for giving me sweaty palms Molers. French lunatics!
Certainly never seen cycling south of Sussex

Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #241 on: 31 May, 2020, 03:57:14 pm »
300m up - utterly disintegrating concrete

https://youtu.be/fcczjFRcVcU
<i>Marmite slave</i>

LittleWheelsandBig

  • Whimsy Rider
Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #242 on: 31 May, 2020, 04:12:52 pm »
I believe that path has been completely rebuilt recently.
Wheel meet again, don't know where, don't know when...

Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #243 on: 13 June, 2020, 09:54:00 pm »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJpcJEOEvec


http://www.indiabuilding.co.uk


The arcade is beautiful, I often used to stroll through during my lunch break.    I'm extremely pissed off that the new tenants (HMRC) intend to stop public access for "security reasons"  >:(
Not fast & rarely furious

tweeting occasional in(s)anities as andrewxclark

Pingu

  • Put away those fiery biscuits!
  • Mrs Pingu's domestique
    • the Igloo
Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #244 on: 13 June, 2020, 10:44:13 pm »
Nice hats!

Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #245 on: 25 June, 2020, 10:01:02 pm »
I believe that path has been completely rebuilt recently.

Indeed it has been.

   Tom Scott - The World's Most Dangerous Path Isn't So Dangerous Any More

(... and I think there were previous links in this thread to other scary videos of it!)
Actually, it is rocket science.
 

Cudzoziemiec

  • Ride adventurously and stop for a brew.
Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #246 on: 26 June, 2020, 02:03:17 pm »
I always get that one mixed up with the South American road.
Riding a concrete path through the nebulous and chaotic future.

Cudzoziemiec

  • Ride adventurously and stop for a brew.
Riding a concrete path through the nebulous and chaotic future.

FifeingEejit

  • Not Small
Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #248 on: 29 August, 2020, 04:38:09 pm »
You'd never get me doing that because of heights, but I do note he's on a tether.

Re: Never in a million years…
« Reply #249 on: 25 September, 2020, 01:46:19 pm »