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Suspended jaccuzzi
- aerique 12y agoAh, humans. What will they think of next?
- alexivanovs 12y agoThose are some high spirited friends, wish you could order them in mail just like that. But anyway, what about the permissions, is everyone going to start doing this now?
- Carrok 12y agoWith the amount of effort clearly involved in such an operation, I think it is fairly safe to say that no, everyone is not going to start doing this now.
- alexivanovs 12y agoIt's all about scale.
- TeMPOraL 12y agoUntil someone decides it's time to dirsupt the jaccuzzi industry and starts a bridge-breaking start-up.
- mseebach 12y agoWhat a kill-joy. Rules! Permission! We can't just have people running around doing epic shit! What if everybody did it?!
- TeMPOraL 12y agoYes. What they did here is the very essence of hacking.
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- noelwelsh 12y agoI like that they're all wearing helmets while in the jacuzzi. Because, you know, it would be completely irresponsible not to. (They're probably more worried about knocking a helmet off the side by accident, if they were taken off, than the utility of wearing a helmet should the cables holding the jacuzzi break.)
- tlrobinson 12y agoIt looks like they all have safety harnesses/ropes. I'd be glad to be wearing a helmet if my jacuzzi were to suddenly drop out from under me.
- SideburnsOfDoom 12y agoThe real issue is that a jacuzzi full of water weights a lot. The bridge is not designed for holding such a large load on the edge. A helmet won't help you for this, and a harness and rope attached to the bridge at the same point as the jacuzzi may not either.
- donny554 12y agoThe helmets may be worn to protect from objects falling from above.
- verytrivial 12y agoI would assume this was to protect against falling champagne flutes.
- fla 12y agoOne can't image how hard a small little object falling from a few dozen meters can hit you. That's what the helmets are for ;)
- PJDK 12y agoThe reason is that there are lots of people on the edge of the cliff fiddling around with carabiners and other bits of gear and it's quite easy to drop one by accident. Being hit by a lump of metal is pretty unpleasant. Climbing helmets are designed to divert glancing blows from falling objects, not save you from falling. Often with sports climbing you'll see the person belaying (at the bottom holding the rope) wearing a helmet, while the person half way up the climb isn't - the risk is the climber will drop something on the person at the bottom.
- easytiger 12y agoAre the side walls of the bridge specified to take directional load like that?
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- diarmuidie 12y agoI thought the same thing. It seems like it would have been a better idea to bring the cables/ropes in through the hole at the bottom of the wall, rather than over the top. The lateral compressive load would then have been taken up by the bridge itself, rather than the walls.
- jacquesm 12y agoExactly. Really really dumb this.
- jacquesm 12y agoSpectacularly dumb idea to hang that much weight (6 Tons!?) from the top of those walls. Those walls are clearly meant for vertical loads. And a much better option (if you feel you have to do this) was available so I really don't understand what made them choose this particular setup. Anybody with an ounce of structural engineering knowledge would have looped the cables through the drainage ports. Right now this looks like a Darwin award candidate. They're very lucky that those walls contained enough rebar vertically to withstand this load, it's at the worst possible attachment point and at the worst possible angle (especially for the inner wall). Edit: looking more closely at the picture it seems as though the cables under tension are actually running through the drainage ports of the back wall, the ropes at the top seem slack or loaded both top and bottom of the opposite so there is in fact mostly compressive load on the front wall and about 50% of sideways load on the opposing wall. Still, that structure was definitely not meant to be loaded like this.
- gambiting 12y agoYeah, in this picture you can see the cables running through the drainage port: http://jaccuzzi.ch/photos/700/1754_264_seb_7_.jpg http://jaccuzzi.ch/photos/700/1754_264_seb_7_.jpg So I "think" most of the load would be applied vertically, but that would be my biggest concern still.
- 2810 12y agoWhat about hot air balloon jaccuzzi?
- draugadrotten 12y agoJacuzzi on the torch of the statue of Liberty
- jacquesm 12y agoGood luck lifting 6 tons with a hot air balloon. (That's what this contraption weighs). Even a small one would be out. A four person hot air balloon can lift about 1 ton max, including all the gear, gas, burners etc. That leaves very little room for deadweight such as water, on the plus side you wouldn't have to take any ballast at all.
- schainks 12y agoOf all the gear and prep that was needed, they even made sure there was pie and cake. Really important. Really.
- ck2 12y agoMeanwhile today in Syria...
- shittyanalogy 12y agoSome people do things. Some don't. Do you do things?
- digi604 12y agothey also did one on top of Mont Blanc (highest mountain of Europe): http://jaccuzzi.ch/html/affichjacc.php?id=112 http://jaccuzzi.ch/html/affichjacc.php?id=112 and inside a cave where you need to dive to reach the spot: http://jaccuzzi.ch/html/affichjacc.php?id=171 http://jaccuzzi.ch/html/affichjacc.php?id=171
- jkot 12y agoMB is not highest mountain in Europe, but in EU.
- felixvolny 12y agoI'm from Europe and this is news to me. The caucasus isn't in Europe, you know?
- arethuza 12y ago"The Caucasus or Caucasia is a region at the border of Europe and Asia" "It is home to the Caucasus Mountains, which contain Europe's highest mountain, Mount Elbrus" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasus NB I've always thought of Europe stopping at the Urals, the Caucasus and the Bosphorus.
- unklefolk 12y agoI didn't realise this. However, it would seem that it isn't as clear cut as you suggest: (From Wikipedia): The generally accepted highest summit is Mount Elbrus (5,642 m or 18,510 ft) in the Caucasus, appearing on both the Bass and Messner lists. However, because the location of the boundary between Asia and Europe is not universally agreed upon, its inclusion in Europe is disputed: if the Kuma–Manych Depression is used as geological border between Asia and Europe, Caucasus and Elbrus lie wholly in Asia. If the Greater Caucasus watershed is used instead, Elbrus' peaks are wholly in Europe, albeit close to the border with Asia. Mont Blanc (4,810 m or 15,781 ft), lying on the border between France and Italy in the Graian Alps, is seen by some to be the highest mountain in Europe.
- folli 12y agoTheir other project, jacuzzi on the Mont Blanc (highest summit of the alps) is equally crazy: http://jaccuzzi.ch/index_e.html http://jaccuzzi.ch/index_e.html 20 sweaty alpinists in one tub :)
- arethuza 12y agoI noticed the other people hanging about on the summit of Mont Blanc looking slightly miffed - not sure if this is because they are unhappy at finding a party on what they were expecting to be a peaceful mountain top or disappointed that they aren't getting an invite to join in!
- paganel 12y ago> not sure if this is because they are unhappy at finding a party on what they were expecting to be a peaceful mountain top o I may sound like a hater, but I would certainly understand the frustration of those having climbed Mont Blanc only to find a bunch of party-people in there (if that really was the case for their looks). And a serious question: How do these people have money and especially free time for this? Later edit: Before people start down-voting me, I found this comment of a guy who was among the "other" people on the top of Mont Blanc (meaning he was not invited to the jacuzzi party). He pretty much disapproves of it all, with quite good reasons (text is in French): > Me trouvant avec mes deux clients au sommet du Mt Blanc ce 13 septembre, je ne peut que vous faire part de notre consternation devant la débauche de bruit et d'agitation ridicule qui polluait l'endroit ce jour-là. Est-ce paraître pisse froid que de ne pas partager votre enthousiasme pour cette réalisation qui contribue à rabaisser un sommet majeur au rang d'exutoire de nos névroses et théatre de nos délires les plus vains ? En a t-il subi, ce pauvre Mont Blanc, des idées absurdes : la tentative de descente en voiture, celle en poële à paella, une autre en VTT et j'en passe. Victime d'égos surdimmensionnés, les sommets phares sont chaque jour dévoyés par des personnes donnant de l'alpinisme une image aberrante (CF la tentative de l'ascension de l'Everest...en short ! Vous y verra-t-on bientôt en mailot de bain ?).Promotion dont nous nous passerions bien à l'heure ou nos effort tendent à rendre à ces montagnes leur véritable statut. Mes clients n'avaient-ils pas le droit de jouir au terme d'un effort que vous avez vécu, d'un sommet conforme ou presque à leur idéal ? Il me semble que cette façon de s'approprier un lieu au mépris des nuissances causées à l'égard des autres personnes qui le fréquente, celà sans autre objectif que de s'offrir un délire de potaches se situe à la limite del'incivilité. Salutations. Denis Crabieres, guide de montagne, secrétaire du syndicat national des guides de montagne
- dvdplm 12y agoI for one wonder if they had sex in there. And if they didn't, I totally don't get it.
- foxhedgehog 12y agoThis seems risky.
- stickfigure 12y agoI applaud their chutzpah. However, my crew would not be wearing swimsuits! I don't think I could bear to take off my harness, though. Getting clothing off would be a conundrum... either that or a very cold descent.
- gonzo 12y agocut the clothing off, while you're in the harness.
- 4ndr3vv 12y agoRelevant Mr Bean link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3smh7055cTQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3smh7055cTQ
- JonnieCache 12y agoI was thinking that. Whats the point of doing all that rigging just to leave your trunks on. Might get some serious nylon burn though, as you say.
- huuu 12y agoReminded me of extreme ironing :) https://www.google.com/search?q=extreme+ironing&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=extreme+ironing&tbm=isch
- jacquesm 12y agoSome of those pictures give me vertigo, something I'm not normally sensitive to. That's on par with 'wetriffs'.
- kieranajp 12y agoBefore I clicked this, I thought 'suspended jaccuzzi' was the name of a startup.
- mbrundle 12y agoMe too, I thought it was a startup called Jacuzzi that had just been kicked out of China.
- icebraining 12y agoChina is .cn, .ch is Switzerland,
- alexkus 12y agoIndeed. It's .ch because that's the initialism of the Latin name for Switzerland: Confoederatio Helvetica. The Latin name is used to avoid favouring any one of the four official languages (German, French, Italian, Romansch).
- josefresco 12y agoI assumed 'jaccuzzi' was some sort of new programming language or framework that I missed out on, and that "suspended" was referring to a specific implementation clearly superior to non-suspended jaccuzzi ;)
- rahvin 12y agoWell to be honest, even though it is not a programming language, I would argue that this jacuzzi implementation is clearly superior to a non-suspended jacuzzi.
- Agathos 12y agoConventional Jacuzzi is much more amenable to static analysis. And just look at the startup time! But I'll admit: these folks know how to scale.
- ohashi 12y agoOn the frontpage the domain is showing as jaccuzzi.c (no h), is that a bug?
- icebraining 12y agoAppears fine to me. Maybe a rendering issue?
- DanBC 12y agoYou have a plugin causing that. Someone posted an imgur screenshot to HN with a title something like "bug on HN today". This was within the past day or so. The Algolia search is fucking hopeless so I can't find the submission now.
- redox_ 12y agoHey Dan, what kind of problem do you have with the search (we recently fixed the back button + are also working on the small 320px screens support). I would be happy to improve it.
- Kluny 12y agoHackerNews, where you can't just vent because the developer will show up to shame you. Thanks redox! (not sarcasm)
- organsnyder 12y agoAre you using Hacker News Enhancement Suite on Chrome? I'm seeing the same thing with that configuration, but not when it's disabled (or on other browsers).
- ohashi 12y agoYeah that must be it. Thanks
- jtheory 12y agoThe question that keeps running through my head -- how do you get back up onto the bridge, once you've left the jacuzzi? Pulled up by winch? Hand over hand climbing (ouch) or manually but assisted by equipment (e.g., I can imagine one-way sliders on the rope that'd let you climb with leg power)? I did my share of rappelling when I was a teenager, but never had to climb back up the way I'd come with nothing but the rope....
- tomkinstinch 12y agoSuch imagined one-way leg powered rope sliders exist[1]! They work well, but surely would be tiring and—after exiting a jacuzzi into a windy void—I'd have to imagine quite cold. 1. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascender_%28climbing%29 http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascender_%28climbing%29
- BuildTheRobots 12y agoYou don't actually need the hardware -very similar results can be achieved using a spare piece of rope and a prussic knot*. ((I really hope I got the knot name right.))
- dagw 12y agoTrue, but using actual ascenders is so much quicker and easier than doing it with prusik knots.
- BuildTheRobots 12y agoVery true -I guess the point I was trying to make is that if you find yourself at the bottom of a rope _without_ an ascender to hand, all hope is not lost. (though admittedly, I'd probably need a working internet connection to be able to remember how to tie a prussic ;) )
- BuildTheRobots 12y agoVery true -I guess the point I was trying to make is that if you find yourself at the bottom of a rope _without_ an ascender to hand, all hope is not lost. (though admittedly, I'd probably need a working internet connection to be able to remember how to tie a prussic ;) )
- nhangen 12y agoAm I the only one that doesn't understand the point of this exercise?
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- stolio 12y agoThis reminds me of the article on bullshitting the other day. On the one hand this is useless play time that wastes resources. But it's also quite a big project. Everybody who took part in planning and executing it gained a lot of experience in project planning and management, the dynamics of working with people, how to work with their peers. No matter what random challenge tomorrow brings this group of people is probably better equipped to deal with it than most social groups who have never tackled anything like this together. Of course they may not be great at handling the mundane, and that might be what drives them to hang jacuzzis off bridges.