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The Science of Fear: Building the Ultimate Roller Coaster

Posted by $ blarman 8 years, 11 months ago to Science
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Check out the videos. Now if you could display this in full screen with a fan blowing in your face...

Nope - you're still not going to go through the sheer terror and exhilaration of this ride =D
SOURCE URL: http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-designing-fury-325-roller-coaster/?cmpid=BBD042415

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  • Posted by $ jdg 8 years, 11 months ago
    Why would anyone in his right mind get on one of these stupid torture machines?
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    • Posted by johnpe1 8 years, 11 months ago
      well, jd, it's like this::: when you go into a "zone"
      where you feel like your life itself is threatened,
      you might feel different -- even exhilarated -- about
      life afterwards. . or during, if you're prone to thinking
      simultaneously. . like riding a bike at high speed, or
      dating a dangerous woman, or planning your
      funeral ... you think about life differently. . out of
      your "right mind," like H2 says. . yes? -- j

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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 8 years, 11 months ago
    At Universal Studios in Orlando, there is a roller coaster simulator that you can program and then "test ride".
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    • Posted by Riftsrunner 8 years, 11 months ago
      A simulator will never replace the actual ride. The G's just aren't right. I used to play a game called Roller Coaster Tycoon and designed some awesome coasters that it allowed you to "ride". While I am sure the simulator probably has hydrolics and gimbles to simulate the movements of the coasters, it cannot created the various g-forces when a coaster changes direction in real life.
      I used to belong to a group of Coaster enthusiasts who traveled to various parks to experience their coasters. I have fond memories of The Beast (the longest woodie) and also the King Cobra, my first standing coaster at King Island just outside Cincinnati, OH almost 30 years ago.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 11 months ago
    Whoa -- does that look like fun, or what? Falcon's Fury here at Busch Gardens has two vertical drops, just because I use a cane, the Brute's won't let me on it any more.
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    • Posted by johnpe1 8 years, 11 months ago
      now, walk close to someone as you approach the
      ride and leave the cane with someone else!!! -- j

      p.s. temporarily.
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      • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 11 months ago
        It's those damn disablaphobes.
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        • Posted by johnpe1 8 years, 11 months ago
          people just Do Not Understand that seniors
          Deserve To Live Their Dreams, Too !!! -- j

          p.s. canophobes. . retirophobes. . shufflephobes.

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          • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 11 months ago
            Hence, the term, "bucket list." Obama, at the gathering of journalists last night replaced bucket list by suggesting the use of a certain rhyme as a substitute. Which reminded me of Dorothy Parker who was a writer for the New Yorker magazine and a famous wit. She was going to a Halloween party with her editor and asked him what they'll be doing there. He replied "Probably ducking for apples." Looking wistful, she replied, "There but for the sake of one letter is the story of my life."
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            • Posted by johnpe1 8 years, 11 months ago
              okay ... and there are the stories of the typesetters
              who have made the news themselves. . . and Megyn
              Kelly doing the same with a mispronunciation. . . .
              and even the FCC giving me the callsign kk4fuu.
              it's no joke. . . you can get in trouble for using
              bleach or for having mexican food at your E.T.
              convention. . . the fun never ends!!! -- j

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  • Posted by $ allosaur 8 years, 11 months ago
    It's been over a decade since my last ride but I do lover roller coasters--save for the kind that corkscrews like a Batman thing at Six Flags in Atlanta if it's still there.
    That was like two decades ago. I also get sea sick pretty easy;.
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  • Posted by JoleneMartens1982 8 years, 11 months ago
    I hate that you simply cannot believe any headlines these days. And let's not even get started on bloggers. It would be nice if science fiction was still labeled as such, instead of being listed as news and headlines. That is true fear to me, as an antisocial person, I rely on headlines to know what's up. A roller coaster to me is just a cheap thrill.
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