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Amazing anyone could have survived. 

I can't imagine the terror those people must have experienced during that fall. 

3 minutes ago, Michael Knight said:

The fall probably killed them

the impact. 

3 minutes ago, Michael Knight said:

The fall probably killed them

I think it's the landing, not the fall that kills ya.

where did you see hundreds of feet? this isn’t hundreds of feet.
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The news story reported it was about 300 feet where they fell.
4 minutes ago, Hate said:


The news story reported it was about 300 feet where they fell.

which story? the one linked says it failed about 300m from the top of the mountain. but the cable itself looked to be at about the top of the tree line in the video and in pictures. nobody is surviving a 300 foot fall in a cable car. 

13 minutes ago, futureman said:

which story? the one linked says it failed about 300m from the top of the mountain. but the cable itself looked to be at about the top of the tree line in the video and in pictures. nobody is surviving a 300 foot fall in a cable car. 

Local mayor Marcella Severino told local media the accident is believed to have been caused by one of the cables breaking. She said the lift plunged some 65ft and rolled several times down the slopes before it was stopped by trees, while hikers said they had heard a loud hiss just before the crash.

Yeah, I thought I had seen a story earlier (not the linked story) that said 300 feet.  I've seen several now that says is was between 50-65 feet.  That's about a 2 second free fall.  Hopefully it was quick enough so those people didn't have time to think.

 

 

25 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

And people want these in Austin

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Hmmm. I wouldn’t mind one running from RR to downtown. Just not over the main road ways like that. Lol. Drunk asses in cable cars. What could go wrong? Imagine being employee tasked with getting people out and in. 
 

 

7 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

Hmmm. I wouldn’t mind one running from RR to downtown. Just not over the main road ways like that. Lol. Drunk asses in cable cars. What could go wrong? Imagine being employee tasked with getting people out and in. 
 

 

And cleaning them after a Saturday night. Well we could hire the homeless right? 

20 meters . . . roughly 2 seconds.  I seriously doubt many of those killed had even the slightest idea of what was happening, thank goodness.

1 hour ago, Michael Knight said:

The fall probably killed them

Nope, Italy is in the northern hemisphere.

1 hour ago, InkaUtexas said:

And cleaning them after a Saturday night. Well we could hire the homeless right? 

Wait, I thought we were putting the homeless in the gondolas?

4 minutes ago, HornOnTheBayou said:

Wait, I thought we were putting the homeless in the gondolas?

They can drive em and clean em. Get overtime this way. 

1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

20 meters . . . roughly 2 seconds.  I seriously doubt many of those killed had even the slightest idea of what was happening, thank goodness.

You don't think you'd realize within 2 seconds that you were in freefall?

2 hours ago, futureman said:

nobody is surviving a 300 foot fall in a cable car. 

 

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18 minutes ago, WBT said:

You don't think you'd realize within 2 seconds that you were in freefall?

Oh, I think I'd realize it, but I'd probably be dead before the terror set in.

4 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

And people want these in Austin

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Will that put our town on the map?

9 minutes ago, 0xdeadbeef said:

Will that put our town on the map?

If we ever when we build that thing, oh yeah, Austin will make headlines.

It was probably the rolling that killed them. Snapped necks and all.

7 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:


I thought it was the sudden stop

It was COVID. 

44 minutes ago, 0xdeadbeef said:

Will that put our town on the map?

Yessir. Right next to Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook.

46 minutes ago, 0xdeadbeef said:

Will that put our town on the map?

Damnit SA beat me to it.  

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Just now, Homercles said:

It worked for Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook.  

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13 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:


I thought it was the sudden stop

Technical term is "rapid deceleration trauma"

1 hour ago, 0xdeadbeef said:

Will that put our town on the map?

 Probably the greatest... Aw, it's not for you. It's more of a Shelbyville Pflugerville idea.

1 hour ago, Deej said:

Fuck anything involving heights.

1234.  Done the skydiving thing when I was younger, had a blast, never bothered me. Flying, doesn't bother me.

But have me go up to the top of an actual high-rise and walk over to a window and look out...

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I can only take so many ethnic disasters in one day. 

What's next, 34 Frenchmen die doing some fruity French shit?

1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

1234.  Done the skydiving thing when I was younger, had a blast, never bothered me. Flying, doesn't bother me.

But have me go up to the top of an actual high-rise and walk over to a window and look out...

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 Same here except skydiving. Fuck that too. If I encounter anything remotely high, my balls retract into my stomach but oddly enough, I'm cool with airplanes.

8 minutes ago, Hmbre97 said:

 Same here except skydiving. Fuck that too. If I encounter anything remotely high, my balls retract into my stomach but oddly enough, I'm cool with airplanes.

Yep same with me. Even weirder is that as a kid I would climb 30 feet up an oak tree no problem. 

21 minutes ago, Hmbre97 said:

 Same here except skydiving. Fuck that too. If I encounter anything remotely high, my balls retract into my stomach but oddly enough, I'm cool with airplanes.

Ever fly in a Chinese glass-bottom airplane?

Remember this video? It’s still tough to watch. You couldn’t pay me enough. I’d rather work in a sewer.

 

20 minutes ago, clapclapclap said:

Ever fly in a Chinese glass-bottom airplane?

With areas that look like broken glass and piped in cracking sounds? Nope

But I flew Aeroflot from Moscow to Novosibirsk. The plane looked like shit with no carpeting and upholstery and everything creaked and with all the passengers smoking it was hard to tell if the haze was from the engines or the passengers.

I have been in a large float plane where the engines shut off mid-flight. Yeah, that wasn't fun whether you are scared of flying or not.

1 hour ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Remember this video? It’s still tough to watch. You couldn’t pay me enough. I’d rather work in a sewer.

I try to forget it. There at about the 3:50 mark, when he gets to the small ladder my balls fully retract.

I don't care how deep the tower's base is, don't care how many supporting cables/wires are coming off of that tower to keep it upright.  There is no way I could trust that tiny little ladder.

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2 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Remember this video? It’s still tough to watch. You couldn’t pay me enough. I’d rather work in a sewer.

 

I might be having a panic attack. Am I correctly seeing that they are only “tied off” (if that’s what you call slipping the clip over a thin rod) when they take breaks and at the very top?  How many people die a year climbing that thing?

27 minutes ago, UT_OB1 said:

I might be having a panic attack. Am I correctly seeing that they are only “tied off” (if that’s what you call slipping the clip over a thin rod) when they take breaks and at the very top?  How many people die a year climbing that thing?

That’s correct. I don’t know how many people die doing that job but if I had it then I would definitely account for one. 

The cables on these outside of Vancouver have been cut, twice, over the last 2 years.    No one was hurt as the cars were empty but they did go tumbling down. 

Environmentalists not happy with the cars and their placement.   

 

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I can't watch more than 30 seconds of that tower climbing video.  It literally makes me nauseous.  

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