And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Top of the Empire State Building. I've visited it several times over the past 60 years and it can get very windy. By the way that curved fencing wasn't there on my first few visits during the 1950's and it wasn't meant to keep King Kong away. It was put up after a few people took dives off. And it wasn't really meant to "save the poor unhinged folk's lives either. it was there to keep innocent pedestrian from being squashed by a person falling at 125 mph.
I've read that it only takes about a 22 story fall to reach terminal velocity. Anything higher than that is overkill. Unless you just wanted to prolong that final rush.
Brushing it out must have been interesting.
ReplyDeleteTop of the Empire State Building. I've visited it several times over the past 60 years and it can get very windy. By the way that curved fencing wasn't there on my first few visits during the 1950's and it wasn't meant to keep King Kong away. It was put up after a few people took dives off. And it wasn't really meant to "save the poor unhinged folk's lives either. it was there to keep innocent pedestrian from being squashed by a person falling at 125 mph.
ReplyDeleteterminal velocity with a swirly. imagine that.
ReplyDeleteI've read that it only takes about a 22 story fall to reach terminal velocity. Anything higher than that is overkill. Unless you just wanted to prolong that final rush.
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