{"id":2517,"date":"2013-10-08T15:58:48","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T22:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/?p=2517"},"modified":"2023-03-29T07:08:23","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T14:08:23","slug":"the-machine-that-keeps-people-from-plummeting-to-their-deaths-from-atop-the-stratosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/the-machine-that-keeps-people-from-plummeting-to-their-deaths-from-atop-the-stratosphere\/","title":{"rendered":"The Machine That Keeps People From Plummeting to Their Deaths From Atop the Stratosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Of all the items on our “Things We Don’t Comprehend and Never Will” list, this one’s at the very top: People, lots of them, voluntarily leap from the top of The Stratosphere in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n
SkyJump Las Vegas is marketed as a “thrill ride,” but it’s basically just falling. Downward. Rapidly. Toward the ground, one of the most consistently hard things to land on, ever.<\/p>\n
SkyJump is wildly popular, though, so we ventured up into The Stratosphere’s tower to peek behind the scenes of all the plummeting “fun.” “Fun” in quotation marks, if you ask us.<\/p>\n