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Tangent: There's a guy that's been climbing public spaces lately, including the Golden Gate Bridge and the Space Needle. The photos are absolutely stunning.

http://www.nopromiseofsafety.com/?p=1680

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2336093/Mysterious-u...

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Related: There's a fellow named Bradley Garrett who did his PhD dissertation on "Place Hacking". GQ has an awesome article of the crazy places he has explored and his run-ins with law enforcement when "hacking" certain restricted locations.

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201303/urban-expl...

Abstract of Place Hacking: Tales of Urban Exploration, doctoral thesis by Bradley Garrett [1]. Includes download link (slow) for the full document.

[1] http://pure.rhul.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/place-hacking-...

Looking at both the pictures from the Golden Gate and from the Space Needle made my palms sweaty. It's just odd thinking about someone being up there for no other reason than to be there.

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