Acrophobics will want to avoid this thread...

[pokerfan]

The spire of the WTC being lifted into place from the POV of the spire.

On Friday the final piece of One World Trade Center was installed making it the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere at 1,776 feet and the third tallest building in the world. So this is what vertigo feels like?

The footage was captured with a GoPro camera by the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey and is simply breathtaking. Some other notable facts about the spire and the tower itself, include the following:

http://gizmodo.com/watch-the-world-trade-centers-spire-being-installed-fr-504737144

And of course, the video:

[Moondog]

1. And by processing through a video editor

one could reverse the footage and experience . . . well, never mind.

I quit jumping out of perfectly good airplanes for the fun of it years ago.

I get the rush. Really, I do. But some time after I began to realize that I might not actually be immortal, well, I just stopped. Quit hang gliding and that stuff too. Never did get in a HALO jump, damn it.

But I do miss the rush.

[pokerfan]

2. Yeah, I did that a few times

but I was in college and it's pretty expensive. After college, I got into climbing, so I could still get the thrill.

ETA: The gif in the OP, reversed:

[Moondog]

3. Never did climbing.

I live on the east coast now, so there really aren't any serious options in that regard.

And, sadly, many experiences really worth having do tend to be a bit spendy. But perhaps that is just the bias of an old guy who had Peter Pan syndrome for years, found a way to get Uncle to fund it for him, survived it all, who is now on the dark side of 60 and has been retired for a while.

[pokerfan]

4. Climbing was expensive too

Rope, climbing shoes, climbing boots, crampons, ice ax, etc. but at least I was out of college by then and could afford it.