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Post #370,459 by crazy 1/28/13 7:55:51 AM Reply	"JUST another 60 feet"?! Why are they designed like that? Why don't they have a 4 sided ladder cage that you climb the inside? This seems just dumb to me.
Post #370,460 by drook 1/28/13 7:58:26 AM Reply	Interferes with the signal, I would guess -- Drew
Post #370,461 by crazy 1/28/13 7:59:55 AM Reply	Nah Signal's on the top. Did you notice they misspelled the tower name on the title page of the video?
Post #370,471 by folkert 1/28/13 9:26:32 AM 1/28/13 9:28:56 AM Reply	Weight and wind load. Those are the single largest items they have to deal with in towers that tall. The more weight, the more they have to build up the lower structures, which increases wind load... higher wind load means larger guy wires. Larger guy wires means more pressure on the lower structures pulling down... which means larger structures... which means more wind load... which means larger guys wires... etc. Heck, it is wasn't for that... they'd all have elevators in them all the way... at least a cable lift up there. -- greg@gregfolkert.net PGP key 1024D/B524687C 2003-08-05 Fingerprint: E1D3 E3D7 5850 957E FED0 2B3A ED66 6971 B524 687C Edited by folkert Jan. 28, 2013, 09:28:56 AM EST Expand All History

I would pay to do this ... once - (drook) - (12) - Jan. 27, 2013, 09:23:06 PM EST

picture a shorter tower - (boxley) - Jan. 27, 2013, 09:31:43 PM EST

My dad did that when he was young. - (Another Scott) - Jan. 27, 2013, 09:50:18 PM EST

NOT ME, no way :-\ -NT - (Bman) - Jan. 27, 2013, 10:57:56 PM EST

Not I. - (static) - Jan. 27, 2013, 11:25:08 PM EST

This is about... - (folkert) - Jan. 28, 2013, 12:18:21 AM EST

"JUST another 60 feet"?! - (crazy) - (3) - Jan. 28, 2013, 07:55:51 AM EST

Interferes with the signal, I would guess -NT - (drook) - (2) - Jan. 28, 2013, 07:58:26 AM EST

Nah - (crazy) - Jan. 28, 2013, 07:59:55 AM EST

Weight and wind load. - (folkert) - Jan. 28, 2013, 09:28:56 AM EST

The only time I ever want to be that high, ... - (mmoffitt) - Jan. 28, 2013, 08:33:26 AM EST

According to other sources on the 'webs - (malraux) - Jan. 28, 2013, 02:59:28 PM EST

That's about what you have to do to get up there... - (scoenye) - Jan. 28, 2013, 07:04:02 PM EST

The parity bit is a bit that detects an error in itself 1/9th of the time.
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