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RE: If You Like Water Rides, You'll LOVE This - 8/13/2009 5:38:07 PM

UncleNasty

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I don't see a reliable way to successfully eliminate or minimize the risks. For most adrenaline junkies that is a key element - how to control the risks involved to an acceptable level.

The hill itself was organic. How you take just one little bump (are the cheeks of your ass puckered this time, or relaxed?) could have a dramatic.

Keep in mind that most adrenaline junkies are not at all the "Jack Ass" fellow (who ever thought ramming bottle rockets up your ass and lighting them was a good idea?). Most have an extreme life wish, which is about as far from a death wish as you can get.

I'm curious how they would have actually constructed the runway. In addition to having been an adrenaline junkie myself I also owned a commercial roofing company (a thousand years ago). The heavier single ply roofing materials I used way back in the day were costing me about $2.00 a square foot. Likely that price has at least doubled. I expect something similar would need to be used to handle the high speed with a relative surety it wouldn't tear. A look at the runway tells me it would be pretty costly all by itself - perhaps $20,000 or more. That by itself makes this pretty improbable. And of course that doesn't include the ramp, or the pool and platform holding the pool.

I also used to be a very serious golfer. I know the likelihood of making a hole in one from 150 yards out. I would put the ball within 3-4 feet 2-3 times per round when I was on top of my game. It was the time required to be that good that ended my roofing business. I guess I liked golf more than work, LOL. Never the less the best golfers in the world can't make a hole in one at will. The best they can reliably do is come close. In that stunt "close" wouldn't be good enough.

But enough of this...

It was still pretty cool to look at.

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RE: If You Like Water Rides, You'll LOVE This - 8/13/2009 8:19:31 PM

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Okay so this video is fake. I will admit when I am wrong.

HOWEVER, the Math I am talking about can be seen in the following Videos and does not require a rocket Scientist to figure out. The truth is you can pin point an object in motions rate of trajectory decay easily just by paying attention. There is no reason that video needed to be faked and I can see MIT doing it for real real soon.

FUN With Angles (And it sounds good too)

He's is tha man in the box (And after the people stop talking the music ain't bad neither)

Lets forget the XY Axis and add a slope and defined physical orbital decay

now lets fuck with the idea of a constant trajection angle

Here is a guy who is way to proud of himself for taking credit for the gravitational physics that actually allow him to do this.

Think is mom finally figured out what happened to all her punch bowls?

All of the above links will show you that an object in a fixed environment can have a very guaranteed travel path..... which can be figured to within INCHES.

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