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Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2003-12-14 03:29am

http://www.dvdforum.nu/forum/index.asp? ... orum=6#new

Check out the pictures.....

I'll tell you one thing. There is no way in hell you would ever catch me on that coaster. I don't think they make balls that big.....

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-12-14 03:35am

I want to try it.. O_O

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2003-12-14 03:40am

Holy fuckoly. That is... guh...

How much to ride? HOW MUCH?!?

Imagine having to do maintenance on that thing, though... *shudder*

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-12-14 03:58am

Imagine building that thing. People who do construction work at high elevations are psychos; I've seen pictures of guys walking untethered on exposed girders during the construction of SkyDome, hundreds of feet above a concrete floor while a stiff wind was coming off the lake. Fucking insane.

Rubberanvil · Post by **Rubberanvil** » 2003-12-14 04:28am

Darth Wong wrote:I've seen pictures of guys walking untethered on exposed girders during the construction of SkyDome, hundreds of feet above a concrete floor while a stiff wind was coming off the lake. Fucking insane.

Wouldn't OSHA have been all over them for NOT using safety equipment and following safety procedures?

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-12-14 04:37am

Rubberanvil wrote:
Darth Wong wrote:I've seen pictures of guys walking untethered on exposed girders during the construction of SkyDome, hundreds of feet above a concrete floor while a stiff wind was coming off the lake. Fucking insane.
Wouldn't OSHA have been all over them for NOT using safety equipment and following safety procedures?

OSHA doesn't give a shit until somebody lodges a complaint or gets killed. They are not proactive.

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2003-12-14 04:56am

Darth Wong wrote: OSHA doesn't give a shit until somebody lodges a complaint or gets killed. They are not proactive.

OSHA doesn't give a shit about Canadians. They're an American agency.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2003-12-14 09:03am

MKSheppard wrote:
Darth Wong wrote: OSHA doesn't give a shit until somebody lodges a complaint or gets killed. They are not proactive.
OSHA doesn't give a shit about Canadians. They're an American agency.

that would be a CSA function, i think. I've seen a documentary on the construction of SkyDome and was amazed myself. It takes a crazy bastard to do high rise girder work in the middle of an Ontario winter.

The Cleric · Post by **The Cleric** » 2003-12-14 09:59am

Hell yes. Where is this?

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-12-14 10:04am

Dying is bad.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-12-14 10:06am

The Heart Stopper once you tried this ride you won`t come back.

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2003-12-14 01:53pm

1.25 g SHIT!

Hotfoot · Post by **Hotfoot** » 2003-12-14 01:58pm

Coasters scared me when I was a little kid.

Now they bore me. Give me bumper cars any day.

Kamakazie Sith · Post by **Kamakazie Sith** » 2003-12-14 02:50pm

Darth Wong wrote:Imagine building that thing. People who do construction work at high elevations are psychos; I've seen pictures of guys walking untethered on exposed girders during the construction of SkyDome, hundreds of feet above a concrete floor while a stiff wind was coming off the lake. Fucking insane.

I completely agree. Shit I think it was insane going on the roofs of peoples houses during inclement weather just to install a dish. Doing that was scary to me, especially on steep roofs.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-12-14 03:06pm

The roller coaster industry, training future dive-bomber pilots from youth.

Bill Door · Post by **Bill Door** » 2003-12-14 05:30pm

Kamakazie Sith wrote:
Darth Wong wrote:Imagine building that thing. People who do construction work at high elevations are psychos; I've seen pictures of guys walking untethered on exposed girders during the construction of SkyDome, hundreds of feet above a concrete floor while a stiff wind was coming off the lake. Fucking insane.
I completely agree. Shit I think it was insane going on the roofs of peoples houses during inclement weather just to install a dish. Doing that was scary to me, especially on steep roofs.

I have to agree.
But then I'm a little funny with heights.
On top of a water tower I get extreme vertigo and have to sit down due to the dizzyness. This happened even in the center of the observation point...
Looking down when I'm climbing a bit where the path decided to turn into a almost a cliff face, I'm fine. And the fall was further too.
Weird or what?

Raxmei · Post by **Raxmei** » 2003-12-14 05:43pm

How do they manage greater than one g in unpowered descent?

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-12-14 05:56pm

Darth Wong wrote: OSHA doesn't give a shit until somebody lodges a complaint or gets killed. They are not proactive.

Unless you're a government agency, and then they rape you for the tiniest infraction.

CmdrWilkens · Post by **CmdrWilkens** » 2003-12-14 06:47pm

Now I personally want to ride this sucker.

That said when I read Mike starting off with "Imagine building..." I thought he was about to launch into a discussion of the kinds of stress the structure is going to be under when it has to change the velocity of a coaster train nearly 90 degrees in a relatively short time frame.

Captain Cyran · Post by **Captain Cyran** » 2003-12-14 07:08pm

Fuck that...

Shadowhawk · Post by **Shadowhawk** » 2003-12-14 07:37pm

StormTrooperTR889 wrote:Hell yes. Where is this?

Like the link says, it's at Cedar Point, Ohio.

Note, however, that the ride is less than twenty seconds long.

Sriad · Post by **Sriad** » 2003-12-14 08:54pm

Shadowhawk wrote:
StormTrooperTR889 wrote:Hell yes. Where is this?
Like the link says, it's at Cedar Point, Ohio.

Note, however, that the ride is less than twenty seconds long.

...but twenty seconds that will haunt and terrify you for the rest of your life!

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-12-14 10:33pm

I was at Cedar Point last summer. It's a shame that ride wasn't there yet. Hopefully, I'll be able to go again and ride that thing. Or even better, an even bigger, faster ride is made. That's pretty much what major theme parks are doing nowadays.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2003-12-15 03:27am

You people are insane.....

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman · Post by **Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman** » 2003-12-15 03:55am

Not me. I hate heights.