You Sure You’re 140?

Holy Shit! I'm having a panic attack just looking at that.

Dr. Wedge

I helped build this; the hot glue gun stated that the glue would hold up to 30 degrees Celsius :)

brutek

@robinandtami: What if a sniper shoots at the thousands of existing windows?

This one little addition to the building doesn't decrease safety from snipers.

with the lego look of the Sears tower, if you fell, wouldnt you just fall onto the next section of the building that jutting out below you?

irfan

@phaota: Oh, and to add to what I said previously: I'm no longer afraid of heights. Last summer I spent some time working construction and worked 8 hour days 50+ feet up while moving on walkways that weren't wide enough for both of my feet. That'll scare fear right oughta ya.

@phaota: It's actually not the heights bit that concerns me. It's the stopping and/or moving very slowly. I can handle any roller coaster out there, but put me on a ferris wheel, or one of those things that go up really slowly and then drop fast, and I will freak.

If I was a (Japanese) Spiderman, I'd always hang out imeediately BELOW the glass floor.... For obvious reasons.

Offtopic: It may always be sunny in Philadelphia (BS) but it seems like it's always rainy in Chicago.

cynep

@CaptCaveman: The view from the Hancock is much nicer, especially around twilight.

vqro

Wait a minute... I live in Chicago, work a block from the Sears, been there more times than I remember and I've NEVER seen this... I feel deprived.

vqro

Oh, hell no.

Brian Richards

@my secret identity: You must be afraid of heights, because Ferris Wheels are kiddie toys compared to a ride like a "loop training", which I rode at Knott's Berry Farm many years ago and got me hooked on roller coasters. Starts off horizontally spinning, then goes vertical, spinning like a wheel with each enclosed car going upside-down/right-side-up for a little while. Not scary for me, but for others, definitely. Ferris Wheel's are boring, but great for looking at the view of the surrounding area.

What if a sniper hits this thing with armor piercing rounds and cracks it?

@bdk184: So I take it none of you have visited the CN Tower in Toronto and had your heart stop when some fat kid jumps out from around the corner while you're standing on the glass floor?

I was that fat kid.

@oceanwest: +2

Wow, there's a bunch of girly-men in here.

That thing looks awesome.

@Brandon Terrill: Ooooh, now you're thinking with steam.

NurseDave

@Signore Pinko-Panko!: Whachou talkin' 'bout Willis?

NurseDave

@CoolRiver45: FTW ! LOL, best comment!

aec007

@USB_Humping_Dog: I had a friend who used to love to swing on the ferris wheel. That is where I learned you can actually leave teeth marks in a seat with your ass!

@CoolRiver45:

:bravo: LOL

I love how Blackrider23 was on a call. Calls are just too boring these days NOT to browse gizmodo at the same time.

jjswee

@chrstphr: opens today (7/2)

asten77

@UniComp: Me too

EVEs_Mako

I feel a slight loss of control of my bladder just by looking at this pic.

No thanks.

EVEs_Mako

@CaptCaveman: People kept leaning over the indoor railings and putting their heads up against the glass.

It also refreshes a tourist attractions that's lost some of its lustre- not even close to the tallest building the world.

ARP

it should be called the Balls Shrinking Device....

mocax

OR a Glass cutter? Harmonic Tuner? I think there's a sign that reads "No Opera Singers Admitted".@shaneschofield:

@CoolRiver45:
LOL!!
Best comment of the day. I had to mute the phone call I was on!

Also. I agree.

blackrider23

I don't think that man's name is 'Mary'... and 240 might be more like it.

@CoolRiver45: No, Barnes & Noble is the 'best laxative'. Books just do something to relax people.

...I feel sorry for the workers who have to service those bathrooms.

@CoolRiver45: Mental picture of the day, my friend.

Ho0ber

@Stubborn Ass Hat STOLE his AVATAR: damn you for putting that idea into my head!!

Queyssel

@92BuickLeSabre: No. Friggin. Way.

I'd never truly forgive my dad if he did that to me. My permanently retracted scrotum would be my constant reminder.

USB_Humping_Dog

@PN - Long time reader, new commenter.: Quarter mile up or a half mile, it doesn't matter. You can't get deader than dead.

@Signore Pinko-Panko!: Ah, at first I thought that was shorthand for sudo ignore or something. Man, while some people can't RTFA, I can't even read!

@92BuickLeSabre: FERRIS WHEELS ARE THE SCARIEST THINGS EVER INVENTED!

I sincerely apologize for my use of caps lock, but I was forced, yes forced to go on a Ferris Wheel... twice!

I actually stopped breathing for quite a while.

I don't get it. How much did they spend on putting those in and why? it's not like they have a lot of competition in the observation deck market in Chicago. There's really only two choices (last I heard).

CaptCaveman

@i heart bacon hub: Oh come on. The thing can hold 5 tons. I don't care who you are, nobody is creating that much thrust while they're going at it.

CaptCaveman

@LastVigilante: Funny, I grew up in Chicago and I've been to the Sears tower several times. But I've never been to the Hancock.

Anyway, I would get in the special observation area only if I didn't have to sit through the movie that they make you watch before going up to the observation deck.

Last time I saw it (about 6 years ago) it seemed to be the same movie as when I was in high school (82-86). And I do mean the same original media, man was that copy in bad shape.

CaptCaveman

looks life fun to me.

That's not the Skydeck. That's part of the Skydeck, and it's called the Ledge. C'mon, now.

I've been up to the Skydeck before, multiple times, but I've never been on the Ledge. I'd love to try it out, though. It sounds like fun!

nforcer

@i heart bacon hub: Teehee, Wacker.

Here are a few more photos including the construction of the "ledges" the skydeck is the entire 103 floor. http://www.wbbm780.com/pages/4312287.php?imageGalleryXRefId=1190947#imgXR

NaldoKlient

Pales in comparison to the Grand Canyon Skywalk

@Brandon Terrill:

You'd need superman's eyes to see that far from the ground up to 103 stories. A NORMAL person on the ground would only see the ppl up there as dots.

chrnochime

@Gargamel:

...wuss.... LOL

chrnochime

@Brandon Terrill: Good idea!!!!

Kittenparade

@600Followers_GitEmSteveDave:You can spend your way to a better economy.

As long as (a) you aren't spending money that you don't have and (b) someone asks you to pay them back what you borrowed to spend because you didn't have it. When those two things occur, you have spent your way to a worse economy.

looks like the worlds smallest Apple Store

oceanwest

@sugardeath: You can't spend your way to a better economy. At least that's what I was told during the election.

scary.... but very epic.

Bantam

@Gargamel: I grew up here and I've never been up in Sears Tower. I've been up to the John Hancock building observing deck a few times, and now they have an "open air" deck, though all it really is that they replaced a few of the windows with mesh. Its really fun to sit down and feel the building sway in the wind.

Now I have a reason to do Sears Tower!

@Stubborn Ass Hat STOLE his AVATAR: I like to think I'm as virile as the next guy, but it would take a lot to get me to think of anything besides falling from over 1000 ft onto the sidewalk of Wacker Drive...

i heart bacon hub

@92BuickLeSabre:
Yeah... more money spent == better economy. Go figure.

@zarchitect: ...?

Shouldn't it be the other way around?

I thought the "140" in the title was a Twitter reference... Dear God, I've been infected.

isoSasquatch

@bill cant fart: O-kay there. Take a deep breath. Take a step back.

Now pull out your calendar and let's see when we can fit you in with a therapist.

@USB_Humping_Dog: That's like when I was a little kid, and my dad (6'3" probably 260 at the time) thought it was awesome to swing back and forth as hard as he could when we were at the top of the Ferris Wheel.

Holy crippity crap. I still have nightmares.

When was this added?

chrstphr

My 'nads are withering just looking at the picture.

hkancyr

What we really need is for someone across the way to install a webcam and a jumbo-tron playing this video on a loop.

+ Watch video

Isn't it the Willis tower now?

@Bon5ai: You mean hilarious.

Mammoth

LOL. Just after I'd walked across a glass floor some 'mother' walked across gingerly and her 'No Fear' daughter ran up to her and jumped hard on the glass floor next to her mother. The fright was saddening, but funny. Try it next time you're next to someone who seems a tad frightened walking across glass like this.

pobox90210

@uRbAnlP:

uRbAnlP

And to think that I actually couldn't stand the Westin Bonaventure elevators in Downtown LA.

uRbAnlP

I wonder if they would let me in there with a hammer.

shaneschofield

That's an "Oh, HELL, no" right there.

CaptainSnarky

Glass floor at CN Tower is worse.

would be fun to screw in, CMON, you all thought it too!

@GC: WHAT?! Can't you see I'm busy!?! GO TO YOUR ROOM!!!!!!

Perverts will also be charged a $15 admissions fee for the prime locations on-ground to gaze up at the booths, binoculars will run them an extra $5

Brandon Terrill

@Signore Pinko-Panko!: Ah; rtfa, signore... that happens later in the year....

Huh, coulda sworn they were renaming it the Willis tower.

@stan-the-man: and it isn't even an elevator! for shame.... (I really should RTFA)

@CoolRiver45: LOL

@600Followers_GitEmSteveDave: Still, I'd simultaneously piss my pants and have a heart attack if I was in this thing and anyone (massive man, skinny child) jumped.

If anyone tried to recreate the Titanic scene (I'm The King Of The World!), I'd throw him or her out through the three layers of half-inch thick glass.

USB_Humping_Dog

I live in Chicago and will never ever go on that thing. Looks way too scary.

Willy Wonka challenges this elevator and its effectiveness as a laxative

"is probably the best laxative"
I have to disagree, I think while being in this box my ass would be pinched so tight that for anything to come out it'd have to be through my ears.

CoolRiver45

caption #2: "Ooooh, look honey - FOG!"
...and people pay money to see that? no wonder the econ is in the crapper...

zarchitect

@600Followers_GitEmSteveDave: From this side view, it looks more like those bank safes in heist movies than something precarious.

Now imagine this on the top floor of burj dubai... I would have to get paid to go on it.

PN - Artest->Ariza

Not in a million years would I got on that.

@bdk184: It's not an elevator. And I doubt even he could "jar" this thing by jumping.

that looks scary!

Nick Silvestri

I pissed in my pants just looking at the pics.

$15 I went two weeks ago and it only cost $11. Why didn't I wait to go until this weekend?!!!

walker2151

...mommy.

i would not be able to get in that with my father. not only is he 300bs but he likes to jump in elevators. i would have a panic attack if he jumped in this elevator.

bdk184