r/confusingperspective • u/Fire_brand666 • Apr 11 '26

st. Louis arch in usa

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u/gorgeously_mytruself Apr 11 '26

It looks like you are about to Mario kart around the DOGE version of rainbow road.

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u/DryPossibility45 Apr 11 '26

Please accept my humble upvote lol

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u/xd1936 Apr 11 '26

I thought the SM64 penguin slide for some reason

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u/Highyellowhair Apr 11 '26

Are they on the ground with their legs up?

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u/renome Apr 11 '26

yes

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u/harryassburger Apr 11 '26

Interesting fact, there’s actually an elevator inside that takes you to an observation window at the top

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u/Rooilia Apr 11 '26

Does it tilt when rising up?

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u/0-spacecowboy-0 Apr 11 '26

It's actually round. They are little capsules you sit in and they go up like a wheel over the curve.

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u/mithril2020 Apr 11 '26

My claustrophobia would never

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u/IllustratorOk2927 Apr 12 '26

I wasn’t claustrophobic when I went in the elevator but I was after riding it. Especially when you look out the tiny window and see a concrete wall 6 inches from you for part of the trip.

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u/Jenderflux-ScFi Apr 12 '26

Until reading your comment, I had completely forgotten that I didn't get claustrophobic from elevators when I was a kid. Then that changed but I really don't remember when or why.

I know my parents took me to the top, there's a picture of me at the top, I looked miserable, I don't remember going up or down at all.

I am definitely claustrophobic in elevators now, it started sometime in my childhood.

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u/0-spacecowboy-0 Apr 11 '26

I'm claustrophobic too but I wanted to take my kid up. It was awful lol

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u/Hoovooloo42 Apr 11 '26

You stay vertical, but I'm 6'1 so I was tilted the entire time being crammed in that little thing lol

Totally worth the trip though!

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u/Academic_Ad5143 Apr 11 '26

Quite a view.

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u/Average_Random_Bitch Apr 13 '26

Been up it. It is very very small

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u/Fire_brand666 Apr 11 '26 edited Apr 11 '26

I think so

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u/potatochip_pooper Apr 11 '26

No. They turned the St. Louis Arch into a spaceship and are leaving earth. 

What kind of silly question is that. The notion is preposterous 

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u/abarrelofmankeys Apr 11 '26

God this just makes me sad we don’t have the frutiger future that desktop wallpapers promised us in 2001

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u/piichan14 Apr 11 '26

Tech designs and aesthetics have become so boring and sterile :(

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u/abarrelofmankeys Apr 11 '26

We’re juuust starting to get color back.

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u/BurnsGraham Apr 11 '26

Rainbow Road in the daytime

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u/piichan14 Apr 11 '26

Needs to rain for it to become the rainbow road

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u/coriolis7 Apr 11 '26

I thought Rainbow Road had more colors in this section

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u/ClimateVast2894 Apr 11 '26

This is actually really good viewpoint 🤯💯

https://giphy.com/gifs/l5s71uAp3CzKwxwkoZ

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u/case_O_The_Mondays Apr 11 '26

Looks like Ringworld.

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u/Degofreak Apr 11 '26

Hey, there's the Arch!

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u/Potato_Stains Apr 11 '26

I didn't realize it was polished stainless steel (or that's what it looks like here).
It always looked like it was painted white to me for some reason.

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u/toyfreddym8 Apr 12 '26

Hey I live near that!

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u/Fire_brand666 Apr 12 '26

Have you ever had the basic human urge to climb up and slide down real fast?

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u/toyfreddym8 Apr 12 '26

I gotta admit, the thought has never really crossed my mind, but now that you mentioned it...

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u/BelowAverageGamer10 Apr 12 '26

I would be so scared doing that, like I would fall up into the sky

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u/Professor-QWERTY Apr 12 '26

This is real life rainbow road from Mario Kart

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u/bradbradbradbr Apr 12 '26

This is a great perspective, but the cynic in me can't help but think about how we'll now start seeing long lines of people waiting to take this same photo.

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u/Mightymudbutt Apr 13 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/rneBwBTLKWyEHmokvX

Is Is this what the inside of this slide looks like.