Maintenance at 1700 feet
On Sep 16, 1:26*pm, dpb wrote:
DerbyDad03 wrote: ... ... At that height, I wouldn't want to be wondering "Hmmm ... will this work?" Thing is, after about 40-ft or so, it really makes little difference other than the time it will take (and generally less than that unless really fortunate). -- "after about 40-ft or so, it really makes little difference other than the time" True - physically - but that doesn't mean our brain processes it that way. Before we moved to an office park in the suburbs, I had a 12th floor office with floor to ceiling windows. Even though falling from that height would certainly have killed me, I could stand by those windows all day. I recently took a trip to Toronto and went up into the CN tower and stood over the glass floor. I wouldn't be any deader if I fell from there vs. my old office, but the knot in my stomach was awfully tight. Part of my brain knows that dead is dead, but some other part stills says "This deadly height is more scary than a lower deadly height." |
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