Back to you MOE!
Eh, good for him even with the tether. I was down about it at first but it was cool to watch.
Dean Potter>this dude…
Do you have your passport? Ah man, jk here it is. What is your reason for coming to Canada? To inspire people across the world. And you did do that. Fucking lame if you ask me lol should of made him walk back…
Philippe Petit walked from tower to tower at 1,368 ft and made the 200ft crossing 8 TIMES on a 3/4" wire rope. That guy is sooooo badass.
3/4" wire rope>2" steel cable. The wire size alone has to up the difficulty factory enormously.
Has any mentioned that a 3/4" steel cable would have likely snapped if had to have been drawn tight over that length of span? 2" was likely an engineering design requirement, not a decision of comfort.
It’s funny how everybody is knit picking this as if he chickened out. I’ve been hanging/walking at 600+ft with a safety harness and it’s still scarey as shit, especially with wind gusts.
Wallenda had been seen having dinner with Lance Armstrong months before the walk. There is rumor he has been using performance enhancing drugs (which has run rampant through the daredevil industry) and officials are considering changing his title from Man of the Mist to Bitch of the Mist.
Anyone could do it…no. Anyone could try it…maybe. While I still respect his focus, balance and endurance that harness reduced the awe effect like 50+% for me. There was no fear of death therefore it wasn’t a death defying stunt.
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In to watch the lulz and backouts.
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That doesn’t look like a NASA designed or approved wire. And I can see a tether under his monk cloak. J/K
Cool and good for him.
Frankly though, I didn’t give a shit about this whole thing.
Inspire people? By doing what? Wasting 2 million dollars to walk across a wire.
If I wanted to waste a ton of money for something meaningless I’d go back to school for another college degree.
that guy bounced up and down on the wire and layed down on it^^
It depends on how much allowable sag there is over the length of the run. ive personally seen 3/8" 7 strand steel guy wire strung just as long if not longer. It just depends on how tight you really need to get it
^No shit.
3/8 is a far cry from 3/4" when you’re fighting the weight of the cable in order to draw it tight with minimal slack/sag.
The BREAKING strength of 3/4" guy wire is in the neighbor hood of 60K-75K#. To get a 3/4 guy wire tight enough to walk on over that span would need to be close to the breaking strength. I’m willing to bet it was tensioned WELL over 100,000 lbs on that 2" cable. Hell, the cable must have weighed 15,000lbs by itself, let alone to draw it tight.
I was TOLD that the cable weighed 8 tons and the tensioning counterweight was 40 tons…
I thought the media vultures with their earpiece interview was f’in ridiculous. Does he really need more to deal with? Next time, just hire sharp shooters to zing shots by his ear.
lol i feel ya.
i was saying to myself. STFU and let the guy walk it. leave him alone
Really made me angry every time ABC said “defies death”. Fuck you ABC, you’re the pussies who mandated he wear a tether, removing the whole “death defying” part. Knowing the vast majority of the risk had been removed made this only slightly more exciting than watching paint dry. This should have been brought to you by RedBull and halfway through they would have one of their pylon race planes fly under an untethered Wallenda. Now that would be a fucking show! :lol:
I like your thinking. You should work directly with managemrnt on nyspeed events.
I request 1 addition…Travis Pastrana triple backflips over the falls while the planes are under the untethered Wallenda.
Bump.
Walking 1,300 feet up right now in Atlantic City… no harness :tup:
I think once you cross Niagara Falls, the rest is just child’s play.
So now he’s planning on the Grand Canyon, no sissy strap, 1500 feet high. Would seem to me you would wear the strap where there’s no water below, and leave it off where there is.