Sunday, April 17, 2011

The Unbreakable - Highest Glass Floor of the World

Highest Glass Floor of the World
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If you're scared of heights, it may be time to look away now.Not content with having the tallest building in America , the owners of Sears Tower in Chicago have installed four glass box viewing platforms which stick out of the building 103 floors up.The balconies are suspended 1,353 feet in the air and jut out four feet from the building's Skydeck.
Floating on air: Visitors get their first view from The Ledge, four glass balconies suspended from the 103rd floor of Chicago 's Sears Tower 
Designers say the platforms - collectively dubbed The Ledge - have been purposely designed to make visitors feel as they are floating above the city.
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The reward is unobstructed views of Chicago from the building's west side and a heart-stopping vista of the street and Chicago River below - for those brave enough to look straight down.
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'It's like walking on ice,' visitor Margaret Kemp, from Bishop, California said. 'The first step you take you think "Am I going down?"'
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Fearless: Anna Kane, five, spreads out on the floor of the 10ft square box which is 1,353ft up
  
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Spectacular: She also enjoyed amazing views out across the city
'At first I was kind of afraid but I got used to it,' 10-year-old Adam Kane from Alton , Illinois , said as clouds drifted by below.

'Look at all those tiny things that are usually huge.'
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Thrillseekers: The boxes jut out four feet from the building and were specifically designed to make visitors feel as if they are floating
  
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'The Sears Tower has always been about superlatives - tallest, largest, most iconic,' he said. 
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'The Ledge is the world's most awesome view, the world's most precipitous view, the view with the most wow in the world.'
The balconies are 10ft high and 10ft wide, can hold five tons, and have glass which is 1.5 inch thick.
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Unfazed: Although some adults felt dizzy after experiencing the Ledge, children seemed to take it in their stride
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Long way up: Even the floor of the platforms are glass - few were brave enough to look straight down 

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Inspiration came from the hundreds of forehead prints visitors left behind on Skydeck windows every week. Now, staff will have a new glass surface to clean: floors.

Architect Ross Wimer said: 'We did studies that showed a four-foot-deep (1.2 metres) enclosure makes you feel like you're floating since there's only room for one row of people, not two.'
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The Skydeck attracts 25,000 visitors on clear days. They each pay $15 to take an elevator ride up to the 103rd floor of the 110-story office building that opened in 1973.
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Towering: A view of the Sears Tower (black building in the foreground). The Ledge is on the 103rd floor

The World's Amazing largest bull- Chilli

 Chilli - the world's largest bull



Chilli is a black and white Fresian bull, weighing a whopping 1.25 tons and standing at 6 feet and 6 inches in height
Abandoned by its owner on the doorstep of the sanctuary he lives in today, when he was just 6 days old, back in 1999, Chilli grew up to become the biggest bovine in the world, according to Guinness Book of Records.
  According to Naomi Clarke, manager of the Ferne animal Sanctuary in Ferne, Somerset, the bull doesn’t eat as much as the other cows and yet he outgrows them by far. He’s also abnormally friendly and gentle.


You could say Chilli had a stroke of luck when he ended up in the shelter, because normally he would have ended up chopped into pieces and on the shelves of a meat market somewhere. Now he’s 9 years old and the proud owner of the title “Largest Bovine in the World“, nice going Chilli.