Bank Tower owners OUE Limited announced today a new addition to the Skyspace observation deck tourist attraction that's guaranteed to give it that "thrill factor": a 36-foot long glass slide that will allow brave souls to slide from the 70th floor to the 69th along the outside of the building.
Called the Skyslide, the chute will be made of clear glass four inches thick [and] sit about 1,000 feet above the ground
— la.curbed.com
Don't look down.
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I wonder how well all that urine and feces will clean off the glass...
/Begin Harsh criticism
Ugh.... I'd be uncomfortable with that slide as the glass better not break.
If it breaks.... that's a 1000 ft. fall. I would be comfortable if it was ballistic laminated glass with reinforcement to it would be seismically stable and NEVER break even under magnitude 15.0 earthquake load for 3000 hours straight. Therefore, it will be guaranteed to NEVER fail under ANY natural generated earthquake. It is one of those things that also would and should be strong enough to stop 50 caliber Armor piercing rounds as well and still not fail under a 8 hour magnitude 15 level test before I would be comfortable with such glass slide that high up that the cost of failure is ABSOLUTE certain death for whoever that falls.
The weight test would also be 1000 psf to meet MY standards.
Whoever dreams this stuff up doesn't think HSW first. They think their grand idea and vision first and pass off the HSW issues to engineers.
EXCUSE ME !!!! Why are you licensed if you take such wanton disregard for public health, safety and welfare. Why not just say NO to the client if they throughout the idea when it is so insanely idiotic and dangerous when there is NO measure of safety to protect anyone if there was a failure. If it fell, that person that falls through the slide WILL be a corpse 1000 ft. below.
/ End of harsh criticism
PS.... There's no guarantee the person will necessarily slide. I don't know how this will pass building codes. Reinforced plastic and fiberglass or carbon fiber would satisfy my concerns more or less. However, glass is brittle compared to more elastic rubberize like plastics that even play slides normally are made of. They usually aren't 1000 ft. up above the ground, either.
proposed masters thesis: coney island to las vegas' integrated amusement parks in buildings,and how the extreme became standard in contemporary architecture.
Ricky, a mag 15 earthquake would instantly destroy the entire planet. I don't think your glass specifications will withstand that.
So you think the slide is a good idea Ricky?
is it a hollywood kind of natural selection? big k asses won't fit there
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