Fyi that’s Jamestown on the island of Saint Helena
Beachfront property
Submitted 2 months ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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EfreetSK@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Trebuchet@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I assume everyone living in the vicinity has buns of steel and a resting heart rate of 40?
slingstone@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I recognized it from my research into islands as far away from all the bullshit of the modern world as possible. I would love to visit.
GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 2 months ago
I’ve genuinely considered moving there.
They have a radio station, and it’s run by the chillest guy ever. Just playing tunes, and chatting between.
someguy3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Fun fact: This is why landings are required at certain distances.
FelixCress@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So you can bounce from them while falling?
sulgoth@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well you’re meant to “land” on them but momentum can be a bitch.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Apparently not though.
someguy3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Only not I’m some 3rd world countries.
SARGE@startrek.website 2 months ago
At first I thought “wow, really? Only 8 seconds?”
Count out 8 full seconds in your head.
Now imagine you’re being hit by young teenagers with baseball bats.
8 seconds is a LONG time
Frozengyro@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s what I told her, but she insisted it really wasn’t…
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I guess she’s used to being pounded on by teenagers?
123nope567@lemmy.world 2 months ago
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
My irrational fear of heights would cause me paralysis on these stairs. It happened in a train station that had plexiglass walls around the stairs. It felt too open and I crouched uncontrollable fear as my partner tried to console me. A cop came to see what was wrong and d that was the thing that motivated me to push through and make it the rest of the way.
ickplant@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I feel you. I also have that fear, and one time we went to a local opera house that has very steep balconies. When you are walking down the stairs to your seat, it seriously feels like you can fall to your death if you wobble or trip. I needed my husband holding my hand and his constant reassurance just to make it to our seats. Didn’t get up the whole intermission and then high-tailed it out of there. Never again.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
I walked out of a concert because we were at the top of those stairs in a huge arena. Just felt like I would fall forward out of my seat for no reason, which is completely ludicrous but that didn’t stop my unease. The seats sucked anyway.
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
I feel that way in some sports stadiums. Like… I can intellectually recognize that hundreds of thousands of people use these stairs without incident every year. But it does not feel that way in the moment.
toynbee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s not irrational at all. Falling from heights hurts. I’m afraid of being hurt (including from heights). It makes perfect sense.
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
I have to do a double-take every time I try to go on a boring, run of the mill down escalator. (I’m perfectly fine going up.) It’s like I’m waiting for vertigo that never quite comes, just threatens.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
The vertigo passes you and lands on me. It’s been a problem lately.
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Fun fact, there is a stairway like this but so much more run down near me. It’s known locally as the Jacob’s Ladder, it’s under the Forth Rail Bridge and it’s actually terrifying but it’s the quickest way between the station and the Pier.
DrDystopia@lemy.lol 2 months ago
My dude, this is Jacob’s Ladder as well.
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I feel safer on that one than the one at Queensferry. Behold.
Every other step? Rotten. Parts of the Handrail? Broken. The steps? Uneven. The Alternative? A winding road that takes you out into the country or a walk into the village.
Monzcarro@feddit.uk 1 month ago
fubarx@lemmy.world 2 months ago
8 seconds in freefall from 1000ft. Longer if you hit solid things on the way rolling down.
Also, if you bring air resistance into it, nationality will affect outcome.
rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I wasn’t aware air resistance was dependent on nationality
fubarx@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Correlation with mass and surface area.
sirico@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Connect S K A T E on the way down
JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Sock ass grind combo or you won’t have to worry about being cool ever again.
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
I firmly believe that the gene for “wants to do crazy shit” and the gene for “has mad skills” will converge given enough time.
danc4498@lemmy.world 2 months ago
5 minutes there, 45 minutes back.
emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Imagine how fun it would be to rig up a luge sled with little rings to go over the railings. The hardest part would be designing brakes that would work effectively, but assumjng you could figure that out, (or i guess even if you couldnt) that first 6 seconds would be fun as hell.
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Just put a slide there, much quicker. The real problem is getting all your stuff there when you move.
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Add a slide
FelixCress@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And a cable car to go back.
bappity@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I bet this would be sick when it’s icy if you have a big sled to go down it
fin@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I don’t see the beach
Ascend910@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I know this place in Queenstown nz
thorhop@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
$4,000
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 months ago
A little rail cart on a winch would work quite nicely.
As usual, the answer to the transportation problem is a train.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
That’s basically what Angels Flight in Los Angeles is. Locals got sick of walking up the fuck off steep hill and built a 300 foot rail to go up and down it.
realitista@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I’m just sliding down the handrail, thanks.
frog@feddit.uk 2 months ago
I too have played Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater.
Seems easy enough.
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 2 months ago
They have these already. They are called funiculars
BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 2 months ago
need to get steps in though
SeekPie@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Put an treadmill on it.
Sergio@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_inclines_in_Pittsburgh