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[@anthonyrenaud5783]

I had anxiety watching them climb on the rungs outside of the spire.

[@LoveAcrossAmerica]

Mark Balli funny, that's exactly when I had to stop watching lol

[@FullEntertainmentMedia]

KZbin Ally Law this has nothing on ally law

[@TIME]

Go behind the scenes at the making of our One World Trade Center panorama. #WTC

[@pailon51]

I ♥ NY =)

[@constancemosley7816]

Don dc curry

[@jenelletamayo4237]

Nc

[@nadeemjutt6975]

Google

[@Discoverlebanon]

Love it!! Google

[@CartezGamez]

Why on earth did they go back and then check for the files rather than doing it right on the bridge. They had a laptop!

[@AntonioDrakeTV]

Good stuff! Caught a bit of anxiety just witnessing the height of it! Imagine came out great! Well worth it! Thanks!!!

[@IAmMrGrand]

me too my stomach turned

[@KristiBranstetter]

Me too!

[@kingofburgundy6323]

I want the old ones back

[@Mattster8159]

Green guy 9512 there still there.. Think and imagine in it

[@kingofburgundy6323]

Kha Truong the old ones had so much floor space because of that. A square mile every floor.

[@WevinKevolution]

But the old one made ny iconic

[@VS-et4pn]

@@kingofburgundy6323 The old ones had square floor plans. each side was 210 feet. It is one acre per floor. So each Tower had 110 acres of floor space, 220 acres combined. That still is not one square mile.

[@Lee247Jamaica]

@@WevinKevolution yh until some dumbasses hijacked two boeing 767s and crashed them in it killing 2447 people and injuring 25000 people on september 11 2001

[@NonStampCollector]

I think my iPhone's got that feature.

[@Billythe406]

Yep but with iPhone you can't do extreme close-ups from that height :)

[@NonStampCollector]

Yeah but with this special camera I doubt I'd be able to do ordinary day-to-day dic-pics.

[@vincentpetulla7700]

NonStampCollector p

[@dontask9735]

Who got there palms sweaty when they are climbing on the top

[@visionist7]

Mum's spaghetti

[@thejza9910]

Felice Graziano bro top reply 😂🤣

[@alexdekarske7415]

In my safe bed and still get anxiety from just the incredible height. I'll say it cuz we all think it. "What the hell was so bad to make people not just fall but run and jump full clip and launch out of those windows on the world. Wasn't even alive at the time but it's not how normal people reeact to Pearl harbor or "insert any tragedy" it's very unique. I've experienced it first hand not having ever really researching that whole situation but it is not. Normal. At. All. Learning in my high School about Pearl harbor ww1 ww2 veitnam, the current war not one kid on Earth has ever cried finding out about those wars.....but over half of my recent history class erupted in tears, anger , hate, sadness, confusion and it literally felt like finding out a family member died that you weren't close but also miss them enough to cry. Despite being born after 9/11 as far as I can tell it will always have an effect like that strangely. It just unimaginable to think how our parents felt being alive back then and being a witness let alone how New Yorkers felt, hard to comprehend all that pain not including if you had family members or how it felt persoanly being a poor soul stuck experiencing what the hell ever was actually going on in those towers because I feel like we really don't even scratch the surface of true condistions. Obviously it was hot and smoky and confsuing but if it was hot enough to have molten steel pouring out then what the hell was going on in those buildings. Half believe they know 100% how and why it happened the way it did... And other half doesn't think they know..... I however know the 100% truth. The real truth is we will never know :( I'm not a part of NYC population so I'm sure I feel different than New York feels, but I wish so much the towers would have been rebuilt . They are too beautiful to not. I'm hopeful they eventhsly will be rebuilt beside theyre older siblings bigger and stronger. Just the way they were. They were perfect, so don't add or subtract any of the family traits like the antenna on the south tower. Maybe add a blue light the wraps around encompasses the top and bottom portions of the towers for the victims to forever remember instead of just the two light beams on the dates of 9/11 attacks and always glow each and every night and keep the water footprint memorials as well as a symbolic safety net for the jumpers

[@BenDover-ln6ns]

My hands were sweating profusely throughout this.

[@chanfle78]

Thank you for doing this for us to enjoy, that’s the only way I’ll be seeing all of New York from that height because I ain’t going up there.

[@RoiJaune]

... Have you seen these Russian guys who take the same crazy blowing pictures without that logistic, without all that bla bla?

[@epiphany5410]

their was ppl that jumped from a little under where they were... the balls on them

[@thomasackerly2410]

True I would have jump then be burn alive JS

[@visionist7]

Most of them didn't jump. They fell.

[@mattadams933]

@@visionist7 Or were pushed

[@marlaCJD]

@Kha Truong how disrespectful.

[@theLordismysheperd98]

@Grum I mean you don’t know what you would have done. It’s easy for you to type that.

[@mymusiciskindatrash3136]

I wish they made a twin of this

[@TotalDesignZ]

Impressive work!

[@vargaa86]

Must be fun working there..

[@MayaMedia360SanDiego]

Amazing team effort accomplishment! More…more…more

[@xtzixx2523]

With balls that heavy the wind had no chance on that man.

[@pattyrick99dad]

My stomach hurled at 0:05

[@brendenpeters2843]

I feel like they made this more complicated then it needed to be.

[@trafficcone7411]

Well yeah they need it to have different supports to survive another terrorist attack

[@moonchild645]

@@trafficcone7411 I think he was actually talking about taking the picture, not the building.

[@SidheM84]

Awesome job!!

[@lanecountybigfooters5716]

The dude at 4:49 casually sitting on the railing would have been that guy in the 1920's building the skyscrapers having lunch with his equally insane buddies on the beams without a safety harness (because they didn't exist) in that famous photo.

[@jurajjozefspilak7744]

5:49 - 5:54

[@jstyle3490]

Where can I buy this picture - for residential use, not commercial. Would love to buy a couple!!

[@Moreno6000]

I'd rather have the old buildings

[@junebug9594]

EyedWeevil agreed.

[@Leviosa479]

agreed

[@AStealthyRust]

@Megapoophoop only 1 tower tho, the terrorists win.

[@peteranthony7115]

@Megapoophoop it looks boring 💤

[@yamotha1217]

ok boomer

[@sebe6962]

6:04 - 6:08 in this time in a pandemic this hit hard

[@dirrckroberts5424]

Where he is at the top should be an observation deck for all to witness those heights or go to Asia.

[@deerepower337]

How many people and unnecessary equipment does it take to take a photo?

[@GTayanes]

2021: Drones will make you safe brother.

[@DJMotorMouth713]

Breathtaking

[@DerpDerpDerpDerp]

so much work for a picture that is fun for like 10 seconds

[@raviolimaster]

wow! that's high up there! just imagine... going to work one morning, and having to make your final most ultimate decision... to either jump and fall (from about this height) to your death. Or burning alive... forget everything you know, and everyone you love. The only thing you got left to do, is decide how you wanted to die... some people jumped in groups,some even held hands. it probably eased the thought's running through there heads, knowing survival wasnt an option either way... could you imagine? i can, and that's why I will Never Forget.

[@erriqueyoung]

Incredible , thanks

[@Bemar666Tina]

Niezłe widoki z tego masztu szukam zdjęć

[@Scottocaster6668]

Why do I keep doing this to myself, I got light headed and my palms started to sweat! Yes, I admit it. Too bad 😝

[@davidno1minton997]

Cool,cool

[@enserfud]

Wow!!! Awesome !!!

[@hoangvu5128]

Im getting some chillse from the hight that your at

[@Poseidon650]

I don’t understand why going to Portland was necessary, could anyone explain this? Why wouldn’t they have been able to take ‘test’ photos from 1WTC?

[@tactikiller]

Probably because they didn’t want to eat up the maintenance workers time going up and down. Plus the company in Portland was fabricating the materials. So do all your tests where the stuff is being made and handle corrections at the source.

[@thomasackerly2410]

Amazing

[@playerone1746]

Earth is stationary, motionless and still. Get on board everyone.

[@ricomotions5416]

Manda someone escaped their asylum...

[@FIERTHMAGAZINE]

It should not take this many engineers and photographers to take one panoramic photo. They made this sound like they were shooting one scene for an action movie , let alone a single still panoramic photo. get a grip.

[@FIERTHMAGAZINE]

sustained 25 mile per hour winds ... its called a breeze. not a storm,

[@Elmex_1]

lmao so true

[@roberttorres4893]

@ 4:13 mini red clamp ? Top of screen middle

[@nirpaLj]

awesome :)

[@pacific_rifle5328]

Does anyone know the music all the way at the end

[@Kampup]

Could have used a drone better shot and saved a lot of time and money also would have been safer.

[@tactikiller]

“Sustained 25mph wind”. It’s hella windy up there, drones don’t do well in wind.

[@letsgobrandon7297]

Where’s twin tower number 2? Just one looks like sh*t for what it replaced. If it was in a different city I’d say it is a beautiful building.

[@stronzer59]

Zeros , just Love Zeros!!

[@APerson-ni1gb]

1776 ft isn’t even that tall since that’s a “NYC height limit” to honor the nations birth and the victims of 2001 attacks ? Such a lame rebuilding

[@michaeljohn8905]

Oh man my stomach is doing flips right now. How do you guys move .. I’d be stuck for sure. Lol. And they say Black folks don’t do stupid sports/jobs lol.

[@Augfordpdoggie]

At 4'15 on, you can see how massive and strong these buildings are, if you still believe planes took down the WTC, you my friend must have failed HS Science class

[@shona5512]

The planes didn't take them down, as evidenced by the fact that they stayed standing for up to two hours after the initial impact. It was the subsequent fire that took them down.

[@tactikiller]

Shona he’s also conflating modern building standards with what they had in the 79’s when the wtc was built.

[@Augfordpdoggie]

@@shona5512 nonsense. Jet fuel doesnt burn that hot, if it did the plane would catch on fire mid air

[@bossmass1668]

People please obey God's Ten Commandments otherwise you will be judged soon as well . . . . . . .

[@michaelsilkwood6129]

All that work for what? Umm why not use a Drone?

[@moonchild645]

I had the exact same thought about a drone. Wouldn't it have done the same thing and knocked out the risk of any human(s) falling from that height.

[@sparkequinox]

1) wind, 2) this was 2014, todays drones were only a dream.

[@happykat241]

i am a puddle of sweat

[@ishaspeaks4536]

Ok how they got back down ?

[@plumberphil5321]

Coming from the non ADHD generation watching this drives me crazy .

[@minivanmilf4058]

Plumber Phil why

[@ianhill20101]

Bet its cold up there most months

[@christopherniceley8848]

What the point?

[@jimboguyton9395]

Just use a drone

[@tactikiller]

Did you miss the part where they mentioned “holding up against sustained 25mph wind”? Drones don’t do well in wind.

[@jeremymoore145]

The twin towers should have been built like 1 World Trade Center

[@1awesomeben969]

This picture is on the bored button

[@jasonhilton59]

Don’t get me wrong, it’s HIGH but why does the look of this building look smaller than the original twin towers? Maybe the design?

[@hunterknobelcatholicknight3006]

i hope one day they will cover the antenna skeleton

[@sadness4lifesadness965]

2018

[@AStealthyRust]

Should have just rebuilt them.

[@globeguy1017]

AStealthyRust you cant repeat history, my friend.

[@ntf5211]

@@globeguy1017 yes you can

[@r.g.431]

This shit gave me anxiety!

[@xJ3STER]

google maps xD

[@Prime_Potato]

All this for a photo that’s probably copied off of Google Earth...

[@alexdmd]

They should have just rebuilt the buildings

[@globeguy1017]

Alex YOU CANT REPEAT HISTORY

[@XyntiaOna]

niby gdzie to mam sciongnanc.

[@KristiBranstetter]

No thank you!!!

[@jacobwatson5496]

Ima climb it illegally one day 😏 and just admire the view then go down and get arrested 🤣🤣 I’ll get out though. Won’t be but 24 hours

[@Exoamylase]

Was this before or after 9/11 ?

[@DGKboy27]

After

[@jpdeluca6623]

Did you watch the vid lol

[@Exoamylase]

jp- easy What vid?

[@ok-rb5tk]

After construction finished in 2014

[@moonchild645]

🤦🏻‍♂️ 😂

[@user-qd8lf1ql1v]

😳

[@nowloading6857]

this is nothing 3 kids jumped off it 3 times. 100x more awesome

[@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive]

Any idiot can break into a building to free climb and/or base jump off of it. Making this multi gigapixel 360 degree panorama took planning and preparation, artistry, craftsmanship, timing (as for the lighting and weather), programming and engineering training. Now Phillippe Petit's tightrope performance between the former WTC was something impressive.

[@jameswalker3073]

Why build something that big? Terrorist couid do the same to this building!

[@APerson-ni1gb]

@@redalerteli Yeah which the same construction could of happened with new similar Twin Towers smh

[@patricklarry6645]

What a dumb project putting everyone's lives at risk. They shouldn't have gotten clearance to go up that far.

[@Loyalki]

Those Joe Biden ads... Joe? Really?

[@playerone1746]

The earth is flat

[@SpongeBob5000_]

Original Twin Towers > Freedom Tower