A network of trampolines suspended 180 feet high has been built in an huge abandoned North Wales sla - Polidicks

[t]http://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bounce-1.jpg[/t] [t]http://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bounce-3.jpg[/t] [img]http://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/10491242_610655105715546_2477735604231249427_n.jpg[/img] [quote=My Modern Met]This underground labyrinth of netting is a giant trampoline playground set inside a slate quarry cavern in the Welsh mining town of Blaenau Ffestiniog. Developed by Zip World, Bounce Below will open in just a few weeks and will offer visitors a playful experience deep beneath the surface of the earth. [b]The tourist attraction features three giant trampolines suspended across the cave, ranging from 20 feet to 180 feet high. Ten foot net walls prevent people from climbing out, while walkways connect the trampolines, and slides offer an easy way to exit. As visitors jump around, the walls of the surrounding cavern are illuminated with glowing blue, green, pink, and purple lights.[/b][/quote] [url=http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/llechwedd-slate-caverns-zip-world-bounce-below]Source[/url] [url=http://www.bouncebelow.net/]Bounce Below's Website[/url]

haha fuck that. that would terrify the shit out of me.

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Hahahahahahaha never

I'd do this in a heartbeat.

I'd be worried more about jumping too hard and hitting the ceiling than breaking through

I'd be worried about the trampolines damaging the walls, which then would bring the ceiling down Fuck that's scary

I'd be a bit worried about bouncing into the wall.

Our mines are cooler [video=youtube;AkLp4TlSywc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkLp4TlSywc[/video] Bowling, billiards, row-boats, all kinds of shit If you think a mine with some shitty trampolines, and wooden walkways is cooler than this mine, you're fucking delusional.

[QUOTE=ionuttzu;45183001]Our mines are cooler [video=youtube;AkLp4TlSywc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkLp4TlSywc[/video] Bowling, billiards, row-boats, all kinds of shit[/QUOTE] id build my base there

I don't think you guys realise how strict health and safety is in the UK. You're probably safer bouncing around that cave then you are sitting in front of your computer right now.

That's radical I want to do this so bad!

[QUOTE=Hat-Wearing Man;45182935]I'd be worried more about jumping too hard and hitting the ceiling than breaking through[/QUOTE] You have a helmet and the ceiling looks to be pretty high up.

[QUOTE=ionuttzu;45183001]Our mines are cooler [video=youtube;AkLp4TlSywc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkLp4TlSywc[/video] Bowling, billiards, row-boats, all kinds of shit[/QUOTE] Those lights are beautiful

You know when you stand near the edge of a tall building/bridge sometimes you get intrusive thoughts about jumping? I'm not sure how I would feel about this.

Fun little fact: There are more people living in caves today (in China alone) than there were humans alive back in the stone age. This means there are more cavemen today than in "caveman times".

That looks awesome. Best part is that there probably won't be any cell phone reception in there so it might impact people taking selfies in midair

[QUOTE=Dr.C;45185242]That looks awesome. Best part is that there probably won't be any cell phone reception in there so it might impact people taking selfies in midair[/QUOTE] You can take selfies and upload them later.

[QUOTE=supersnail11;45186006]You can take selfies and upload them later.[/QUOTE] What if you dropped your phone and it bounced through the net wall though :v:

[QUOTE=ionuttzu;45183001]Our mines are cooler [video=youtube;AkLp4TlSywc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkLp4TlSywc[/video] Bowling, billiards, row-boats, all kinds of shit If you think a mine with some shitty trampolines, and wooden walkways is cooler than this mine, you're fucking delusional.[/QUOTE] Let's start colonizing mines and be modern cavemen.

[QUOTE=Ninja Duck;45186118]Let's start colonizing mines and be modern cavemen.[/QUOTE] It would be an idea for resorts, the air in that salt mine helps your lungs for example.

No thanks, I was on a trampoline that broke once. Suddenly falling 3 feet scares the shit out of me. I don't want to know what suddenly falling 300 feet feels like.

[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;45184932]Fun little fact: There are more people living in caves today (in China alone) than there were humans alive back in the stone age. This means there are more cavemen today than in "caveman times".[/QUOTE] but are there more hobbit holes today than ages past?

[QUOTE=Ninja Duck;45186118]Let's start colonizing mines and be modern cavemen.[/QUOTE] Living underground would be cool but I live in California.

[QUOTE=Ninja Duck;45186118]Let's start colonizing mines and be modern cavemen.[/QUOTE] We should live underwater instead. Water is the ultimate radiation shield, and a gamma ray burst that would ionize the entire atmosphere and burn the surface of the Earth wouldn't even reach past 15 or so meters.

[QUOTE=Eudoxia;45186788]We should live underwater instead. Water is the ultimate radiation shield, and a gamma ray burst that would ionize the entire atmosphere and burn the surface of the Earth wouldn't even reach past 15 or so meters.[/QUOTE] only issue with that is the whole lack of sunlight thing, though im sure we can just call up Sunny-D and tell them to 100x their production of OJ

[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;45184932]Fun little fact: There are more people living in caves today (in China alone) than there were humans alive back in the stone age. This means there are more cavemen today than in "caveman times".[/QUOTE] The rest that aren't in China are in Afghanistan.

How the hell did Health and Safety let that get built?

[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;45187504]How the hell did Health and Safety let that get built?[/QUOTE] They were allowed to be the first to jump around in it

[QUOTE=Sableye;45186396]but are there more hobbit holes today than ages past?[/QUOTE] Not to derail, so I'll only post about this once in this thread. I'm not sure if you're referring to LOTR just as a joke, or to the fact that Middle-Earth is intended to be very much our own Earth, as a creation myth in which the ages prior to the Age of Man occurred so long ago that they predate recorded history. [QUOTE]In a letter to Rhona Beare in 1958 he wrote, "I have, I suppose, constructed an imaginary time, but kept my feet on my own mother-earth for place." In an earlier letter to his publishing company, he explained, "Middle-earth, by the way, is not a name of a never-never land without relation to the world we live in…. It is just a use of Middle-English middle-erde (or erthe), altered from Old English Middangeard: the name for the inhabited lands of Men ‘between the seas’. And though I have not attempted to relate the shape of the mountains and land-masses to what geologists may say or surmise about the nearer past, imaginatively this ‘history’ is supposed to take place in a period of the actual Old World of this planet."[/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.physics.ccsu.edu/larsen/astronomy_of_middle.htm"]The Astronomy of Middle-Earth (long presentation at RingCon 2002)[/URL] What's really interesting is how detailed people can get because of the smallest clues Tolkein hid in the lore. [URL="http://3rings.webs.com/chronology"]This guy[/URL] thinks Middle-Earth is a retelling of the Atlantis myth and that Tolkein was accidentally letting slip that he believed in an obscure branch of thought that believed Atlantis was real, but he still has the same info I've seen elsewhere that's the relevant info: [QUOTE]The whole chronology of Middle-earth can be pinned down to the precise day by reference to one single astronomical event that occurred on the night of 8/9 Narvinyë 3019 Third Age (i.e. 8/9 Afteryule on the Shire Calendar), when Frodo and company left Hollin – namely, a full moon. Furthermore, it was a full moon that occurred roughly nine or ten days after the winter-solstice, because the solstice occurred at the start of the calendar year. Since we already know what year this must be (two years before the beginning of the Fourth Age), then the full moon in question can be none other than that which can be calculated to have occurred at 11:20 UTC (i.e. GMT) on the following date: Monday 31 December 3105 BC <on the Gregorian Calendar>[/QUOTE] [editline]22nd June 2014[/editline] Sorry for going so wildly off-topic, but I thought people would find it interesting. I could see us moving into caves more and more if the ozone layer doesn't hold up over the coming couple of centuries, so this may become more common during our lifetimes.