Posts Tagged ‘crazy’

January 16th, 2009

I wonder what he gets paid

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I love this guy, he seems like the coolest and smoothest man ever. He might be the guy from the Dos Equis commercials minus the accent!

Reason I live him: you’ve gotta have serious stones to repair high-voltage cables from a helicopter while wearing a faraday cage suit. Not only are you dealing with heights, but tons of electricity as well.

His suit is 75% Nomex to prevent him from catching on fire and 25% stainless steel thread, which creates a faraday cage around him that pumps about a half a million volts around him at all times. The steel allows the electricity to flow around the outside of his suit, completing a circuit, but none of it touches him.

The best part of this video? The quote at the end: “There’s only three things I’ve ever been afraid of: electricity, heights, and women. And I’m married too.”

Props to you, you’re a better man than I am for facing all three of your fears.

Tags: crazy, electricity. Nomex suit, helicopter, insane, job, repairing high voltage vabels, stainless steel, worldgaming

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November 21st, 2008

the tallest bridge in the world is pretty scary

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China is a pretty wild place, and with the addition of this it’s going to be even crazier. They’re currently working on the Siduhe Grand Bridge, which will be the tallest bridge in the world when it’s done.

So how tall is tall? Put it this way, you could put the Empire State Building in the valley below it and it wouldn’t touch the bridge, which has an insane 360 feet of overhead. So know that the next thing I wanted to know was how the hell do you get cables across a chasm that large to build a bridge?

Simple. Rockets, of course.

First, they erected huge towers on either side of the valley to anchor the bridge. Next, they attached 3,200-foot cables to rockets, accurately firing them across the valley to the other side. The old way of building large bridges was through using helicopters or kites, that was just a little too practical for these guys.

But hey, it worked perfectly, so who am I to judge? The bridge is still under construction, but at this point officials say that the really hard part is done. You know, the part with the rockets.

So, who wants to be the first to drive across it?