Its A Tall As The Eiffel Tower & Being Built In London...

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Zad said:

Cookie220 said:

AHAHAHAHA. Sweet jesus I can't breathe! 16 hours for that! There is a slim to no chance that can be seen to the naked eye from the ground

You think?

It was seen around the world for 16 hours, and is on today's newspapers and news web sites.

That is why it took them 16 hours to do it. It doesn't matter what they did at the end of the climb. The climb was the stunt, not the weedy flag.

I'm sure Shell's Oil Execs took one look at those news feeds and have immediately cancelled all further Oil drilling in the Arctic/Antarctic.

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Vipers said:

dxg said:

(I was walking past, I had an hour to spare, £30 I didn't need, and so did the other suited-up guy in the lift with me, it transpired. Actually, the lifts are damn impressive...)

Damn impressive tad understatement, but that will do

Agreed...amazingly rapid ascent!

Think my tickets were £25 and frankly it's over-priced. View is tremendous as you'd expect...reminded me of the Eiffel Tower for breadth and depth of vision - but there the comparison ends.

Paris is so much more beautiful to look at look from that height.

Still, I'm a Londoner and proud of it so to see many-many places from that height that I'd only seen previously seen from either the ground or very fleetingly from an inbound flight was very nice.

The photos are a complete tourist rip-off though.

If the Eiffel Tower is a 10/10 experience then the Shard is.......7/10 by comparison but the rating is based solely on the view as obviously the Shard has far better facilities.

All IMHO.

Blib: Cancelled the restaurant as most of the reviews are very very poor. Went to ZsiZsi's in Covent Garden instead.

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LordGrover said:

Hmmm.

Who's that?

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That's outrageous...I can actually tell its the Shard!

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LordGrover said:

First one's a repost! crap

Fixed.

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anonymous said:

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Hmmm...that shadow...that reminds me of something...

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Vipers said:

I always thought the Shard was taller than the Eiffel Tower, so how when I google is shows the Shard to be 310 metres, and the Eiffel Tower to be 324 metres, I am confused

Page 4 of this thread explains with a diagram but in essence

To the roof:

Eiffel 300m
Shard 305m

With (cheating) Antenna:

Eiffel 324m
Shard 310m

Yes, the French stuck a long thin aerial on it.

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Zad said:

Halmyre said:

Well, we could be all quibbly and differentiate between buildings, i.e. structures with habitable space, and transmitter masts.

Emley Moor has an "office" (link room) at the top though, which was intended to be manned 24 hours a day. That makes it a building.

No, that makes it a giant aerial with a platform 9/10ths the way up.

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Sway said:

PM if preferred so we don't accidentally turn this into a photography thread!

There's no fear of that whilst Blib keeps contributing.

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A real photographer!

Get out, get out now!

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Interesting picture...raises a few questions like why can't you turn right at that junction?

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mickk said:

im said:

Interesting picture...raises a few questions like why can't you turn right at that junction?

A lorry's approaching.

It's not moving in that clip. I think it's parked.

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hornetrider said:

im said:

Interesting picture...raises a few questions like why can't you turn right at that junction?

Elfen safety. The tree is about to fall over.

I'm not surprised...it appears to holding the weight of a tall pointy building.

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AJLintern said:

I just clicked back to the first post on the thread and it's almost the same picture Interesting to see how it compares to the artist's impression...

Plagiarism? Surely not?

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That was well worth the wait Blib and, I feel, summarizes and encpsulates your talents for all to see.

I salute you and your etch a sketch camera...surely a compendium of photos of a single subject the like of which you'll surely not find published anywhere else on the web.

Ever.