My legs feel funny just watching…
Me and a few pals found a nice trail in the Palisades overlooking the Hudson River. There was a perfect platform that was cleared out. Being golfers we thought it would make a nice tee box to hit balls into the river. The drop was about 400 feet.
I couldn’t follow through. I was developing a reverse pivot. I had to stop.
I’ve worked on rooves on and off over the years. Each time I am nervous at first but then I get used to it after a while. I don’t know if I could get used to that elevation though…
That ball is out, and………..it’s gone!
They can’t play normally. There is no room in the corners for a pro player.
The things you can accomplish when eco-terrorists aren’t stopping you from being a supplier of oil to the world.
The Democratic party hates America. Pass it on.
Heights don’t bother me.
The thought of falling negates that fact.
Height is bad, being Dubia wouldn’t the heat up there be stifling or would there be a breeze to help cool the body down.
I hate heights, but that’s good because I get really cautious on ladders and roof tops.
I used to climb ladders on tanks and towers up to 200 feet for 30 years, then one day at about 50 feet I froze in sheer terror, I was in the ladder cage dragging my monkey tail up the rail all safety rules followed. I kept working those jobs for a few more years but the little panic attack still lives in my mind.
Many years ago I watched a documentary demonstrating the natural fear babies have of heights and falling. Apparently it is the only natural, innate fear that is hard wired into our DNA. I’m okay with heights as long as I know I’m safe from falling.
…but I’m not a thrill seeker who would bungee jump, zip line over the Alps, or walk across that glass deck jutting over the Grand Canyon. No thanks.
That little net encircling the platform? Not good enough to keep anyone from flipping off the edge if the players didn’t have to sacrifice their game to be careful. One lunge at a ball heading to the corner would end their game. For good.
I used to scamper around on house roofs like a deranged squirrel. Now the only thing that would get me on a roof is a Biblical flood.
I’m having trouble getting my underwear out of my butt-crack just watching……….
@ Dr. Tar OCTOBER 11, 2022 AT 10:03 AM
The higher you go the cooler it is. It’s ground that retains and reflects the heat and you’re right in the middle of it.
Try going in an open cockpit airplane and you’ll see that even at 500 feet on a 100 degree day it gets pretty cool.
I’m sure we have some flyers here that can confirm that.
I can confirm that Dadof4’s statement is accurate. I’ve been in a hot air balloon at 700 ft on a hot day in Michigan in August. It was so pleasant up there.
And it was not caused by the breeze. No breeze, since the balloon is blown by the wind, thus you don’t feel the breeze as it moves along with the wind.
Nope.
I wonder if it’s actually used to play
St Claudia just admitted she got high once.
Put that in the records. 😉
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A trip to Dubai is on my bucket list. That hotel even has an indoor snow ski hill with year-round snow on the slope.
@Dadof4: “I’m sure we have some flyers here that can confirm that.”
You failed to take into account what is termed a “Temperature Inversion”. This is where temperature increases with an increase in altitude. Meteorology 101.
Building to building jumps in F&F 7. I know it is mostly CGI, but fun to watch.
https://youtu.be/TaIRKXKGyqE
Within normal bounds, the dry air adiabatic lapse rate is 5.4° F per 1,000 feet. (“Adiabatic” means there’s no mechanism to pump heat into or out of the mass you’re measuring.) As a rule of thumb, given natural variables, temperature goes down 3 to 5° F per thousand feet.
That tennis court is about 1,000 feet up, so figure the temp is about 4° F cooler up there at a minimum, and likely a lot cooler given ground level re-radiation of sunlight.
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Still not as high as Kamala Harris.
I invented the dry air adiabatic lapse rate.
The old Aladdin in Vegas had a nice tennis court on the roof.
We use to play it every time we visited.
Of course there was no danger, except in the casino.
Elvis was married there so it was a favorite hotel.
Of course they tore it down…
It gives new meaning to the term, “double fault”.
What happened to the Umpire? Did he fall asleep and fall off?
Have worked at heights for the last 48 years.
Never let on to anybody that it bothered me,just made sure i was safe and carried on.
A new sport. Suicide Tennis.