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  1. hiroshi_87 hiroshi_87 is offline

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    Sep 16th, 2011 (9/16/2011 10:01pm) in reply to TheWhitePele

     
    Originally Posted by TheWhitePele View Post

    Seen this photo so often and i always stare in wonderment, moving along the line. Was actually in the news over here recently as they have discovered who some of them are. The guys on either end are both Irish. Brothers i think it said

    Fascinating picture

    Haha, I guess that explains the mickey.
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    Sep 16th, 2011 (9/16/2011 10:22pm) in reply to hiroshi_87

    guys on a beam is an optical illusion, think they were ony a few feet off the floor they were building.
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    Sep 16th, 2011 (9/16/2011 10:32pm) in reply to ShortStacked1



    same guy took this one it seems
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    Sep 16th, 2011 (9/16/2011 10:42pm) in reply to voorh33s

     
    Originally Posted by voorh33s View Post

    ummm... isnt this fake? they look absurdly high up. like 20x higher than all the other buildings.
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    Sep 17th, 2011 (9/17/2011 1:18am) in reply to Ozzie

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    Sep 17th, 2011 (9/17/2011 1:28am) in reply to SluggerWV

     
    Originally Posted by SluggerWV View Post

    that is just so wrong it's making me dizzy sitting even though I'm sitting down


    mbn not to get vertigo



    this is the first pic that came up when I googled historic wtf

    just realized it's from the same page as the op's pic


    Jaybums grandma and friends airing out jaybums grandpas mattress??
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    Sep 17th, 2011 (9/17/2011 1:38am) in reply to dolphin13

    LOL

    My initial thought to that picture was they were showing off their daughter's virgin blood from her consumating her new marriage or something like that.
    Edited By: Dyzalot Sep 17th, 2011 at 01:40 AM
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    Sep 17th, 2011 (9/17/2011 2:23am) in reply to Dyzalot

    I just assumed first pyramid. Oh well.
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    Sep 17th, 2011 (9/17/2011 2:29am) in reply to Ozzie

     
    Originally Posted by Ozzie View Post

    ummm... isnt this fake? they look absurdly high up. like 20x higher than all the other buildings.

    Yes it is.. trying to search the net to find the proof.
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    Sep 17th, 2011 (9/17/2011 2:30am) in reply to ShortStacked1

     
    Originally Posted by ShortStacked1 View Post

    guys on a beam is an optical illusion, think they were ony a few feet off the floor they were building.

    not sure how you can know that but even if there is a floor a foot off camera below them, there's a whole lot of air behind them and a long way down
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    Sep 17th, 2011 (9/17/2011 2:37am) in reply to SluggerWV

    i think thats the rockefeller building no? and yeah theyd prob fall to their deaths
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    Sep 17th, 2011 (9/17/2011 2:38am) in reply to An Actuary

     
    Originally Posted by An Actuary View Post

    Yes it is.. trying to search the net to find the proof.


    Umm, Im pretty sure it isn't. It is a very famous photo.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunchti...p_a_Skyscraper

    and yeah it looks high up compared to the rest of the buildings,the picture was taken on the 69th floor of what is still one of the tallest buildings in NY and the picture was taken in 1932
    Edited By: threeven Sep 17th, 2011 at 02:39 AM
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    Sep 17th, 2011 (9/17/2011 2:50am) in reply to threeven


    a little better resolution in the pic from the wiki page

    i guess they didn't have anywhere else to eat but DAMN

    supposed to be the same dudes

    well some of them

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    Sep 17th, 2011 (9/17/2011 2:54am) in reply to SluggerWV

    the last couple seem believeable because the dude appears around the same level as one of the other buildings. and this building might be taller but from the original pic it looks like it's a mile high.
    Edited By: Ozzie Sep 17th, 2011 at 02:55 AM
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    Sep 17th, 2011 (9/17/2011 2:55am) in reply to Ozzie

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    Sep 17th, 2011 (9/17/2011 2:55am) in reply to Ozzie

     
    Originally Posted by Ozzie View Post

    ummm... isnt this fake? they look absurdly high up. like 20x higher than all the other buildings.

    This is me last month on the ESB. Buildings look pretty small down there.

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    Sep 17th, 2011 (9/17/2011 2:58am) in reply to Ozzie

     
    Originally Posted by Ozzie View Post

    the last couple seem believeable because the dude appears around the same level as one of the other buildings. and this building might be taller but from the original pic it looks like it's a mile high.



    this is the Rockefeller building around the time they were working on it
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    Sep 17th, 2011 (9/17/2011 2:59am) in reply to SluggerWV

    come on lefty, you cant tell me you dont notice a difference between the first two pics slugger posted and the last two(4 now) with how the background buildings look.
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    Sep 17th, 2011 (9/17/2011 3:01am) in reply to LeftyMark

     
    Originally Posted by LeftyMark View Post

    This is me last month on the ESB. Buildings look pretty small down there.


    they look small when compared to the magnitude of your excellence sir

     
    Originally Posted by Ozzie View Post

    come on lefty, you cant tell me you dont notice a difference between the first two pics slugger posted and the last two(4 now) with how the background buildings look.

    didn't mean to imply that all of these pics were from the same building


    only the one with them eating lunch and "taking a nap" (though that seems staged to me, but not faked) are from the Rockefeller construction as far as I can tell

    just thought the other pics were interesting
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    Sep 17th, 2011 (9/17/2011 3:02am) in reply to Ozzie

     
    Originally Posted by Ozzie View Post

    come on lefty, you cant tell me you dont notice a difference between the first two pics slugger posted and the last two(4 now) with how the background buildings look.

    I really didn't compare the pictures tbh because I've seen them so many times. We went to the top of that building and they have that scene set up in the lobby so you can get your picture taken sitting on a beam with that background. I just assumed the original was real or they wouldn't be doing that.
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    Sep 17th, 2011 (9/17/2011 3:07am) in reply to SluggerWV

     
    Originally Posted by SluggerWV View Post


    this is the Rockefeller building around the time they were working on it

    maybe it's some kind of photography trick of perception but the building looks 2-3x as big as many of the surrounding ones here. but in the pics from the beams it looks like it's at least 10x higher than any other.
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    Sep 17th, 2011 (9/17/2011 3:08am) in reply to Ozzie

    http://www.worldsfamousphotos.com/in...yscraper-1932/
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    Sep 17th, 2011 (9/17/2011 10:44pm) in reply to Ozzie

     
    Originally Posted by Ozzie View Post

    maybe it's some kind of photography trick of perception but the building looks 2-3x as big as many of the surrounding ones here. but in the pics from the beams it looks like it's at least 10x higher than any other.

    if the pic was taken with the photographer's back to the river (left to right in the in above pic like from 11 o'clock to 4 o'clock) then the pics in the background would have all been substantially smaller

    how about this angle




    11/13/1929-New York: Jack Reilly, intrepid photographer, precariously perched from the 72 story of the world's tallest building, the 74 story Bank of Manhattan.


    A man holds onto a girder and waves from the construction site of the Empire State Building. June 10, 1930
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