What?? UE Rookie forum? WHY? I asked a legitimate question regarding the dangers of a not in the least rookie act of exploration. I'd understand if my other thread got moved, but this is thread is just completely ruined now!
Or are new posters forbidden from posting in UE Main?? Yes, I am a rookie to UER (in terms of posting, although I've read a huge portion of the forums and has been following it for almost a year now), but I am not a rookie to UE.
Posted by bfinan0 Also, don't climb longwave or OIRT towers; these Soviet-era relics often reached 500 meters height, but again are mast radiators (touching one will fry you)
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500 meters? Holy shit! If I ever found one of those I would love to climb it one way or another! I've thought about this before, what's the big deal with mast radiators? Sure they would kill you if you just walked up and touched them, but they're not really high off the ground, so what's stopping you (or to be more realistic, me XD) from just sprinting up to them, and jumping on them? The moment before you jumped you'd be in contact with the ground, the moment after you "landed" you would be touching the mast. At no point would you be able to create a path for electricity between the two. (assuming of course you don't trip and fall headfirst into the mast ending your life with an extremely short headache) Extremely risky, yes, but impossible (at least if there are no flaws in my logic, in which case please do tell me), not in the least!
Posted by jeepdave Trespass charge is one thing, I have to wonder if a terrorism charge would pop up if caught climbing a high voltage tower. |
I don't live in the USA thankfully, so I don't have to worry about any of that. I would (rightfully) get in trouble if I got caught of course, but I wouldn't. I've got everything planned in that respect, I just need to do more research on the dangers and the overall risk.
This is the type of thing Darwin Awards are written about. |
Possibly, but that is quite subjective. To most people, a death resulting from any of the activities we share here on UER would be considered a death resulting from stupidity. I believe a large part of UE is deciding what sort of risks you are willing to take in order to go where others don't and can't go, to see what others don't (and/or are not supposed to) see, and of course to photograph all of our results. This is exactly that, except taking a much higher risk than it seems even most explorers would think is sane. As of yet, I'm still leaning towards doing it, but not until I can be certain on what the safe distance is, and whether I will be able to keep it.
addicted to danger / addicted to music / addicted to photography (my sets: the intro - the latest) First advice I got on UER: "No. You will probably die. Don't fight Darwin." - TheVicariousVadder |