Comments on: Mental Note: Don’t Be on a Roller-Coaster During a Blackout

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:01:05 +0000

Indeed. Although I wouldn’t mind going into the world of D&D on a runaway coaster.

By: Great White Snark

Great White Snark — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:13:35 +0000

OR! Get run over by one.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:35:11 +0000

I’d rather get stuck on the coaster, than fall off of one.

By: Shithead

Shithead — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:31:27 +0000

That ride is frickin sweet though, seriously. Except it kind of locks you in this little box and you can’t move, which was kinda scary, and not in a fun way. The box holds four people, and you each get a responsibility, like engineer (lame), pilot (ok), gunner (pretty sweet) and commander (totally sweet). As you can probably guess, I was commander. I ruled that ship.

Also, it has gary sinise, which is much less likely to cause suicide related death than the ride next door, “Ellen’s Energy Adventure”.

By: Great White Snark

Great White Snark — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:19:36 +0000

I think I read somewhere that there have been nine deaths at Disney attractions. There’ve probably been even more, but they hide the bodies in the underground tunnels. You heard it here, first.

By: nickolai

nickolai — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:40:25 +0000

So, in a power outage, the coaster’s brakes just kick in automatically, regardless of where it happens to be? Wouldn’t it make more sense just to let the thing reach the point of lowest kinetic energy on its own?

Could be worse I guess — you could kill your customers like Disney does…
http://www.space.com/news/ft_060413_missionspace_accident.html