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Okay, Gothamist is envisioning that at some upcoming hooray-hoorah-type New York event (next July 4th? some crazy movie premiere?), there must be people walking across the East River and Hudson River in these fabulous plastic bubbles. Here, a boy walks across the Neva River in Russia, to celebrate the 300th birthday of St. Petersburg. Sure, New Yorkers in the bubble should be outfitted in wetsuits and with oxygen tanks, because there are probably sharp objects floating around the water, but the tableau of tons of plastic bubble spinning across the rivers would be fantastic. Because if they can do it in Russia, it sure as hell can happen here.
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Is it the air inside the bubble that keeps the shape, or does it have some wire mesh holding it in place?
Also, is there a weight limit? (225 lb. person would sink it, that sort of thing . . . )
It looks like he has to hold that stick attached to the bubble for balance, or to make it go.
Without enough traction, wouldn't you just spin around in it on the surface, not going anywhere?
My guess is that the bubble is rigid and maintains its shape without the need for pressurization. As for the stick, since his arm is bent, I would think that he's actually pulling on a rope of some sort that connects outside of the sphere.
How about, instead of rolling across the Hudson, we put several people in just as many bubbles in Sheep Meadow and have a giant game of human-filled marbles?
Yeah OK I think I see it. There is a rope that leads from that white point on the sphere. Otherwise I guess you go bubbling down the river.
I am used to walking ON a sphere, but not walking IN a sphere.
I bet it would still be fun.
Reminds me of "The Prisoner," that old Patrick McGoohan show.
The current in the Hudson is too strong. Depending on tides you could drift miles downstream while crossing the river, maybe all the way out into the bight.
I wish there was some quick way across the river.
I thought it was Prisoner re-enactment of sorts when I saw that photo.