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Usquebaugh submitted this link to a guy who built his own roller coaster. The guy builds grain elevators for a living and - let me take a wild, city-slicker guess - they probably use some sort of rail system for transporting grain, so.... Update: 03/14 14:29 GMT by M : We overran the bandwidth limit on his webpage - sorry buddy! From the comments below I see a mirror and another mirror.
Wait, beer comes from wheat... This man has tons of wheat nearby. That is one rollercoaster I will NOT be riding!
--Forest C. Adcock--
Building one's roller coaster is like building an operating system: You might be able to do it, but is it worth all the work that you put in to come up with something that's essentially duplicated effort?
:-)
I like roller coasters, don't get me wrong, but if I want the thrill of riding one of my own design, I simulate it. Much like I don't build my own planes and fly them for real--I just fire up MSFS2002 and release some tensions flying those jumbo jets filled with co-workers into the ground.
Karma: Excellent Birds (mostly as a result of listening to Laurie Anderson)
Judging by the rust on that thing, I'd say this guy's life expectancy is somewhere around (now + 4 rides).
-- "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
Just like the rollercoaster, the server goes down in one quick blue flash
"If it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet"
It's the new Homeland Defense Terrorist Chart(TM).
It goes up and down more often than the Orient Express.
... this guy wins a Darwin Award ?
...
What a way to go though
- sigs are for wimps.
Hurry up...we all need to chip in and buy this guy a computer & pr0nsite subscription before he hurts himself or others.
He obvoiusly has wwwwaaayyy to much time on his hands.
"A terrorist is someone who has a bomb but doesn't have an air force." -William Blum
Did anyone else notice that the coaster part of the assembly is an old car bucket seat strapped on to a toy cart by what looks like duct tape?
(Look closely!)
grain elevators. if they break, you get spilled corn.
now, roller coasters are a different beast. spilled brains.
something tells me this is a field best left to engineers...
Just raise the taxes on crack.
exhibits extreme balls, stupidity, or mabye a combination of the two. I'de be caught dead on(or is it off) that thing!
It looks like a really fun project and all, but from looking at the seat (what is that, an old carseat?) and the corkscrew loop, I think he's really aiming for the Darwin award...
This looks awesome.
anyone notice his phone number is on the last page? Wonder how many phone calls he'll get from slashdot?
http://youare.whyihate.com
There are people who think they're cool, and some that know they're cool, but if you build a fscking roller coaster in your backyard, you don't need to do either.....
Is it just me or is that a Car seat bolted to an Automobile Floor Jack! (See page Seven). Wow this guy is brave :)
I do.
Friends worked at their facilities.
Ever since sony via paramount owned the kings island facilities, well it was just never as fun as it was during the hanna-barbera days.
Last time i stopped by that place some lame construction company that our construction company has a long standing feud with, had build some jive ass area51ish roller coaster. I never bother to ride it, as the fact of its creation was an insult upon my intelligence, not to mention over 10years of reverse engineering toys not created in the open and commercial markets.
So next time you would like to start a topic that deals with roller coasters, if you would care to fly at over 1000mph underground from nyc to la, then just ask until such time stop posting usless information.
Else my dear friends this Scooby Doo master scribe will bet its cache of gold upon you name the bet.
Zai Jian
Jon Sable, Freelance a First Comics Pirate Jest'n Jive
Looks sweet, wonder how safe it is, being that it has a loop in it hehe, the fourth page has him riding sideways.
:D
But who really cares, the real question is:
How much did this cost and how do i get one
paul
At least all the facts seem to be straight... and I don't believe it's a repost :)
Absolute Stupidity
http://www.13kingdoms.com
CHeck out Lugnet.com .Someone recently just made an all-Lego roller coaster, using monorail(or is it train?) parts and it does everything. Loop de loops, the works. Often passengers fall out, but it works. Motors control everything!
Heck, I'm from Indiana, Corn Country, and I've never been THAT bored!
help fill in hidden movie endings @ End of the Credits
What!!! Have you guys NO sense of adventure??? You have to die sometime... May as well have fun doing it...
You're right ...
r y2002/Bond-on-Blue-Flash-3.jpg
http://www.negative-g.0catch.com/BlueFlash/Februa
Somebody call Child Protective Services !
- sigs are for wimps.
what is even scarier is one of the pictures shows the guy with his kid on it. The steel doesn't look too durable to me, but then kind of hard to tell how much force the rails can support. He's got guts. Maybe he should change jobs and go work for a rollercoaster company.
hmmm...Does it somehow run Linux ?
and prolly an expensive hobby, but I think it'd rock a bit on the cork screw if a larger chap were to get on it. btw, the counter on the page is currently at 1947 for a ref.
Saying Java is nice because it works on all OS's is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders.
i swear you guys have run this story already. am i wrong?
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it's all in good fun until someone loses an eye.
when religion is no longer the opiate of the masses, governments will resort to real opiates.
Actually rails aren't used to transport grain at all. We use augers to do that task. An auger is basically a sheet metal tub with a long stationary screw inside it. The bottom end is placed on one location where the grain is poured into. The screw inside rotates slowly and pulls the grain up the tub to the top where it just spills out into the top of a silo.
Slackware forever. Honestly, what else would you trust when it absolutely positively has to be stable, secure, and easy
I knew I was taking welding class for a reason! (I'm a mechanical engineering student.)
:)
I can build my own backyard amusements!
Seriously, though, I've seen and heard of plenty of fun side jobs done with welding- My girlfriends neighbor built himself a 1/8 (ride-able) scale steam locamotive (yes, really steam powered) and in my home town, some one has a large metal dragon in their front yard.
A little ingenuity, a lot of time, and a bunch of mild steel.... nothing you can't do
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms should be the name of a store, not a government agency.
I wonder if he could build the door ride from Monsters Inc! Would be fun even with the hundred+ page waver forms just to ride { hang on for dear life } it! Wow! :)
Bet his insurance man has either passed out or figuring this poor guys next mega buck premium!
Well, I don't make my own OS either (even though I was pondering the idea, just for the heck of it), but I am really happy that someone except for the big fat corporations out there is doing it. Really. You know why? Because this way people tweak with things, play with new features that these big corporations would be afraid to even try. And maybe they will burn themselves. And maybe this guy will win Darwin's award after all, but maybe, just maybe, he might by chance make some invention and change the way how roller coasters work. And maybe by doing the roller coaster he might find out how to make his work easier. The only thing I know is that this is the way how most of inventions ever came up. Some geek out there was playing and tweaking with something. And usually because he was lazy. If just lazy to drive to nearest roller coaster or too busy to be bothered to waste his time in line :)
With your attitude there was no reason to climb down from trees. Really.
If programs would be read like poetry, most programmers would be Vogons.
"No someone did not fall off, the lift was not able to carry me all the way up the lift (I'm working on losing weight and It should be able to carry me in a month or so plus the engine wasn't working up to par due to the 30 degree temperatures)."
Read it for yourself here.
mySig
I knew somebody would pick up where Kevorkian left off...
If you want to simulate a roller coaster, go pick up a copy of RollerCoaster Tycoon.
--Metrollica
Somehow I don't see this as being safe. Not because of the materials used for construction, but simply because a few winters of negligence will make this sucker rust right through. If I was this guy's neightbor, I'd probably ride this thing a few times, but only during the first few weeks, and definitely not after a year.
The big difference between his ride and coaster parks that make the parks safer? They have mandatory ride inspections every morning before opening. Plus I believe they are also required to do a full inch-by-inch examination at least once a year. Probably before opening in the spring.
that someone has a hobby besides sitting on your fat lazy asses typing and clicking your way through life. People like to build different things. He probably thinks you guys are wasting your time building that 'l33t linux boxen' complete with neon in the case, flashing led indicators, and LCD readouts. You guys REALLY think you're the first kid on the block to build one of those?
ok this is OT (mods do your worse)
/. effect and this is a great way to find out ;)
but I always wondered how powerful is the
a quick look at his counter (when I first glanced at the page) was 2002 I think we should take a look at the counter when this post is afew hours stale to see how many people actually hit the page. (or when the server crashes
And once it moves from the Elevator to the flour mill (a good number are built side by side for a very good reason :-) and passes through cleaning and tempering, it all starts moving through pneumatic blowlines.
And for longer distance moving under the elevators, ya got drag conveyors to move it, and elevator legs to move it upwards.
Nice to meet someone else who's been stuck doing Industrial Automation for Grain Elevators :-) (I've done *WAY* too many of them!)
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I believe this exists but I do not belive it functions hbased on evidence in initial photo.
I know, I spent a lot of time designing coasters in various PC coaster design programs, and even Dreamcast.
Why?
No enough kinetic enegry from the original drop to counter the energy loast along the way.
(Sway of metal and strain of sway = energy lost).
Thats not even counting friction and wind drag.
Look at the hight of the last loop.
Impossible.
Consider trying to design one of these things at a scale of only one foot tall... you see quickly how lots of energy can be lost.
His is less than twenty feet tall but still very harmed by the non rigid frame.
he needs at least a forty foot drop to make that last bit of track I predict.
Any physicists here on Slashdot that can try to map his limited photos into a 3d cad program to prove my assertions or debunk this hoax web site.
If he printed "NON FUNCTIONAL" on his site or removed track portions not reachable by the car he would at least not be branded as a hoax.
As it is at this time.... its just a failed project that is now a mere hoax that too many people fell for.
The photo on the main link says it all.
My father once built me a swing set. He used landscaping timbers and duct tape to build the frame. DUCT TAPE!!! That bad ass swing held up for 21 years, until we put a pool in. So don't go dissin duct tape. It held my 240 LB ass in the air!
I think /. should spin-off the toys topic and created a new one for those nifty hacks (like the roller coaster, invisible case, portable playstation, even the potato-powered webserver).
It should be called WICBTHT (of Wow, I can't believe they hacked it!, in analogy to that Simpsons program)
See my thumbs up? See the hard protein fiberous growth at the end of each thumb? Its called a thumbnail!
Still... kick-butt coaster... but when it kills you soon... can I have your computer?
http://windows.scares.us
I saw page 1.
I saw page 2.
I clicked on the link to page 3 and got this:
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"This site has exceeded its limit of 3 Gigabytes of transfer for the month. You may buy extra Gigabytes of transfer by logging in to the user menu and choosing "upgrade". "
This site has exceeded its limit of 3 Gigabytes of transfer for the month. You may buy extra Gigabytes of transfer by logging in to the user menu and choosing "upgrade".
Thank you,
0catch.com
Maybe the editors should contact small sites before linking to them. This poor site is now done for the month. I'm glad I got in and grabbed the pictures just before it died.
Looks like we /.ed him and his ISP shut the site down. BAD ISP.... BAD
"This site has exceeded its limit of 3 Gigabytes of transfer for the month. You may buy extra Gigabytes of transfer by logging in to the user menu and choosing "upgrade"."
How Fitting.
Another one bites the dust from the Slashdot effect...
/. could come up with some sort of caching system so the sites that are overwhemed could be accessed at least in the form they were in when it was posted... however there are copyright issues with that im sure...
Perhaps
"We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it" -- Winston Churchill
Poor guy got slashdotted past some predefined limit set by his hosting service. Durn. What I saw was k00l, 2!
Mark
This guy has a web counter at the bottom of his page that increments by about 10 every time you go to the next section.
Why, this reminds me of the day *I* was slashdotted...
(lights pipe, ignores mass exodus of twenty-somethings)
fifth sigma, inc.
This is what I get when I try to view the page. Poor guy might not have even shown the page to his mom, before you slashdotters killed his site :(
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Thank you,
0catch.com
My mom never taught me to sign.
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Thank you,
0catch.com
This guy's site is now completely slashdoted. I got a message saying that he broke his 3 gigs/month limit. Sucks to be him.
Don't Bogart the fish sticks
There needs to be another 20 foot of initial drop to ever get this hoax car to get through the last segment of track.
Way too much enegery lost along the way otherwise.
It is a hoax. Just as the link to the potato power server proved to be.
I was looking at page 6, hit the next page link and got: "This site has exceeded its limit of 3 Gigabytes of transfer for the month. You may buy extra Gigabytes of transfer by logging in to the user menu and choosing "upgrade". Thank you, 0catch.com"
already exceeded his data transfer limit for the month. can we get someone else to mirror the site?
I'm good with numbers -
And I was SURE that his roller coaster was going to be the first thing to go down. Oh well.
I posted to
Well I guess this is a pretty popular topic, I really wish I could have done something like this. Anyway I hope someone mirrored it becuase as I was looking through the monthly bandwith was apperently exceeded. Guess they got some serious slashdot effect.
:)
I've seen something like this before only not as advance, there was just a single drop and turn of the side of a building, but it was even more shoddily built. These crazy guys were dropping down it in a little in box with wheels and it ended by crashing into hay barrels. Hydrolic brakes would be nice
Visualize Whirled Peas
Saving bullets is Jewish, you fag.
"dude, what the fsck's wrong with German people?", now I have to say "dude, what the fsck's wrong with Americans?"!
Try to get it (the counter) to increment by only one later today or tomorrow.... did you stop to consider his counter is as fake as this hoax coaster is? (not enough height to make last loop)
Linus's cock is like a rollercoaster flying up you loose linux reamed ass.
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I can just see it now:
"You've currently run out of track for this roller coaster. You may purchase new track by screaming bloody murder at the top of your lungs."
--------
Bleah! Heh heh heh... BLEAH BLEAH!!! Ha ha ha ha...
One thing I was wondering about this - how heavy is the cart? It looks like 75% of the weight is the passenger. In larger coasters, you have an enormous amount of steel in the vehicle, so the number/size of passengers doesn't make much difference.
This guy has carefully designed the coaster so that you have just enough momentum to reach the bottom of the lift and hook on to the chain, so you don't have to ever get off and push.
I would think that if (god forbid) a small child were to ride, the difference in friction and wind resistance would leave him with quite a bit of velocity still at the end of the ride. If the vehicle were heavier, it wouldn't make much difference right?
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I think we borked his site.
This site has exceeded its limit of 3 Gigabytes of transfer for the month. You may buy extra Gigabytes of transfer by logging in to the user menu and choosing "upgrade".
What happens when your site is smaller than the "over the limit" message? Whats up with bandwidth useage then?
Skiers and Riders -- http://www.snowjournal.com
Did anybody mirror it?
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
"My love is like a roller coaster..baby, baby, you wanna ride?"
Ergonomica Auctorita Illico!
I've posted a mirror link at http://www.thepugsandkellyshow.com. Click on the 3rd link.
:)
i'm the webmaster
Doesn't this violate the GPL?
It's probably not Kosher but I was able to snag some of the images and mirror them. You can find them here.
First -
Download Scream Machines (http://screammachinesgame.com) or No Limits (You have to buy it, http://nolimitscoaster.com)
Then visit my site, and find over 2000 coasters created by other people.
TODO: Something witty here...
*walks out in disgust*
"I don't trust goats," --To Catch a Spy
Do you have Linux and a DotPal? Click here now!
Thank god I don't pay to get dead links. That certainly wouldn't be a good investment.
Please mod parent up (+1 Correct use of the word "loose")
Do you read when u post? I dont think we need 40 friggin ppl all telling everyone else that the site has exceeed the GB limit do we?
Here is an idea, browse the replies 'before' posting, unless your one of those 'first post' fools.
So we can't finish looking at the pictures again until 1-Apr -- /.'ed again and then we wait 'till May...
Uh, doesn't a transfer limit seem like a catch? Lame.
Hump! Hump! Hump!
Yeee - hhaaa!!
At the risk of sounding like JeffK:
WARE IZ TEH LUNIX PROT?
Tyler, you mooch! Only wandered over after I posted to RRC about it, too.
-Wolf
Denial Of Service and/or Displayed On Slashdot?
Hey Everyone; I'm the webmaster of the site you all just slashdotted. I thought I'd come on here and answer some of the questions. First off the guy who built the coaster was tired of waiting in line at parks like Six Flags so he decided to build his own so he wouldn't have to. He builds grain elevators and is a welder so he accquired enough parts to build the coaster and it was actually pretty solid. He's had a few problems with that style track (very simmilar to track made by Arrow Dynamics) so his next coaster is going to use a different design which should take care of roughness and stress on the structure. I was unable to ride it because there was some problems with the lift and the fact that it was 30 degrees out but my son Bond rode the second half which consisted of a downward helix(he loved it). The car is custom welded and the seat is from a catepillar tractor with a thick seat belt. Unfortunately as most of you know my site is now down for the rest of the month and my regular visitors have nowhere to go. Since you guys knocked out the site, I wonder if you'd be willing to help me get it back up and running? My paypal account is under my e-mail which is Raven_Rider@negative-g.net and if you want to contribute I'll buy more bandwidth so you all can see. Also if you have any questions I can be reached at the e-mail listed above and I'll be more than happy to answer them. Sincerely Paul B. Drabek Raven_Rider@negative-g.net Negative G Roller Coasters and Amusement Parks www.Negative-G.Net
Hey, I'm a regular poster ;)
And I know I'll kick myself if I didn't do it just this once, when it's on topic...
TODO: Something witty here...
Father using young Son as alligator bait....
"Don't worry Son, I won't let him git ya...after all, I am your Pa."
Yeah? well I came up with the idea of troll haikus
question - how did you learn you were /.'ed? Was it through your AIM account, phone, a visit from a near by local, your ISP wondering what's up, or just looking at your site and realizing it's time to check the referrer log and find out what happened?
Them old folks are like that.
Got this from someone else's mirror.. i tried to get the actuall page, but mozilla cache's funny and I lost the pictures.
Kenny
I think you're talking about metal storm...
Their website is here.
it's an electronic round ignition system that lets them stack lots of rounds in each barrel and lots of barrels together and then fire them in a way it won't just all blow up.
but the effect isn't all that different from a claymore mine.
I'm pretty sure they advertise a potential 1,000,000 rounds a minute (as opposed to your seconds), and have built "proof of concept" but not the actual 1,000,000 round a minute "guns".
Not to demean metal storm's work, or the other points you made, just wanted to clear it up a little.
They certainly are Australian.
'There is a Light that never goes out.'
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;)
I don't know what Hitchhiker book Douglas Adams wrote it in - but there was this floating party that literally floated above a planet, causing all sorts of havoc. Whenever it needs supplies, the party would raid some poor country, take all their booze, then float away.
Slashdot is so like that. Its a floating party that hijacks poor websites, kills them, then moves on to other unsuspecting fools
To that - I can only say -
Drinks on the house
And it's only the 14th today :)
Who knows what deal you have with your ISP about over the top charges, you're much better off just asking someone to host it as its much easier to hand over bandwidth than cash, at least for me. It seems a bit disingenuous to ask for money instead of bandwidth.
Well, I'm really interested in seeing where this goes. Will slashdotters pay up? Can the slashdot effect work in reverse?
I'm also interested if anyone has ever attempted legal action for slashdot-like effects. Its bound to come up.
What kind of provisions have to be made for safety inspections? Can anyone get a permit for this kind of thing?
this sig limit is too small to put anything good h
Ahh the humour of ignorance,
Ignoring that the vast majority of beer is made of barley...
Having once brewed beer up from raw malt (and malting the grain is a long and painful process in itself) I'd be more worried out for a man who lives near a liquor store.
'There is a Light that never goes out.'
Located in Vincennes, Indiana
Wow, I actually know where that is. Even though I live in southern Tennessee, I have some friends who live in Illinois about 40 minutes from Vincennes. I've passed through there on the way to visit them several times. Guess I'll have to look this roller coaster up next time I venture north. Not a very large town by any means, so it can't be too hard to find.
No surprise that he works with grain elevators either, considering that there's a LOT of corn, wheat, and soybean farming in that region.
On a side note, I can't believe suggestion that Katz stories should only be available to subscribers was considered flamebait. I was just joking. I mean, I think it would be great if I woke up in the morning and was no longer able to view Katz's well thought out commentaries. ;-)
Seriously though, I wish Slashdot would hurry up and accept subscription payment via something other than paypal.
yes, geocities sucks, but the last i heard they won't cut you off for bandwidth (although I could easily be wrong about that). and face it, the little java ads in the corner are less annoying than Pop-up x10 ads or the like. it would at least give people somewhere to go, without anyone having to fork over any dough.
The site's /.'ed. Too much bandwidth used. Anyone have a mirror?
How do we know that you really are who you claim to be? I could run this "Please contribute to PayPal for my slashdotted site" scam for every slashdotted site...
No tracks and rails in any grain elevator I have ever worked around. They use augers.
Building your own roller coaster... 144 shot rubber machine gun... Cool Aluminium PC case...
/.ers! Forget about all the luxuray and fun, remember that we have the burden of saving human race from evil hands of Microsoft and RIAA! People!
I mean, wake up,
I'm glad to see there are SOME people here on Slashdot with a background in farming. We certianly are a dying breed... :-/
I can't see the pictures, or even read about it because of his transfer limits, but think about this.
Did anybody die in Cartmanland? (Other than Kenny, he doesn't count.) Didn't think so.
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;-)
This guy must be really mad, now
Why is it that we're paying CmdrTaco money? It's guys like this who are getting ripped off and really need our donations. Plus, they're the ones who are actually providing interesting content!
The site link for your article is no good so I can't see what this man has. However, this is how roller coasters began. Do a Google search for "mauch chunk switchback" to see the story. If you omit "switchback" you get hung up on their famous football player. The Mauck Chunk Switchback Railway is as old as the B & O Railroad. It developed into the world's first roller coaster. The depression killed it off. There are attempts to rebuild it.. html
http://www.northeast.railfan.net/mauch_chunk
is one URL
I just love this line
:-D
"Bond always has a very serious look when riding anything. I think he's trying to figure out how it works. "
...or when he's going to die, or why he's being punished, or what breakfast looked like, or my favourite: It's not going to be long before he sees a vertical drop roller coaster
How the hell could I be redundant if I was the first person to say it? :P
I stick to my original story - it was unsafe and certainly pointless to post on slashdot about.
Hell, I have friends that DO design roller coasters and they cringed when I told them that story.
Telling people that writing an OS is a waste of time, when your nick is Interrupt Descriptor Table. Hardy har har. Well I'm the GDT, and I say you're in the wrong ring. Sorry buddy.
Not wanting to be a spoilsport - and admitting I am no expert on rollercoasters - I really wonder whether this thing is safe, especially for the small children depicted on the photos. I surely hope he's gotten this thing tested by the proper authorities.
If he dies doing this will his life insurance company consider it suicide? I am going to be looking at the Darwin Awards for this genius!
Round and round she goes, where she stops nobody knows...
7008,3970,3124,2579,2174,1861,1596,1383
Too many pictures... ;)
OK, the new site is kinda backup.... problems moving 50MB over a modem put things to a halt last night.
/.ed
The good news is that the BlueFlash appears to have been copied over. The BlueFlash is the coaster that was
From the linked site...
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>of transfer for the month. You may buy extra
>Gigabytes of transfer by logging in to the user
>menu and choosing "upgrade".
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>Thank you,
>0catch.com
Here's a good use for subscription money...
This has got to be the ultimate fighting machine in a cubicle farm dart gun war. Add a few short walls and rig it so you can lay down and fly like Super Delbert and this would be an awesome gadget.
Its always worth a try
HE'S GOT THIRTEEN CHANNELS OF WRESTLING
COMIN' IN STRONG FROM A DSL SEND
A TWO MILLION FUNCTION LINUX CONSOLE
FLAT SCREEN TV WITH TWO TIVOS
FOOTBALL BASEBALL NASCAR TOO
WITH PICTURE IN A PICTURE IT'S ALL IN VIEW
AND IF IT COMES ON JUST A LITTLE TOO LATE
WITH HIS PVR'S HE'LL GET IT ON TAPE (or disk)
HE'S A HIGH-TECH REDNECK
MAYBERRY MEETS STARTREK
HE'S A BUMPKIN'
BUT HE'S PLUGGED IN
HE'S A HIGH-TECH REDNECK
HE'S GOT AN MP3 PLAYER IN THE BACK OF HIS TRUCK
A THOUSAND WATTS OF POWER AND HE KEEPS IT CRANKED UP
HE AIN'T INTO HIP HOP HE AIN'T INTO RAP
HE LIKES TO RATTLE THEM SPEAKERS WITH RONNIE MILSAP
WITH A DVD, CD, AND MEMORY STICK
HE'S A WAR DRIVING, PORT SCANNIN' REDNECK HICK
AND IF HE NEEDS TO TALK TO HIS HONEY AT HOME
HE JUST DIALS UP HER NUMBER ON HS PDA/PHONE
My $0.02 will always be worth more than your â0.02, so
That sounds fair actually. I'll shoot you a couple of bux however before you bring it back up it sounds like you might want to crunch down a few of th epics. If they're really 700K you'd be much better off squishing them down to say 70K. Depending upon how you set it up - say thumbnails - you could really cut down the bandwidth that we're easting up on the site.
;-)
Will be interesting to see who actually contributes, please post back and let us know
Build it, Drive it, Improve it! Hybridz.org
you are a mean-spirited person
If you told an airplane engineer about how the Wright Brother's designed and built their airplane that they'd kringe too! This guy apparenty welds structures for a lving and if you read the story they didn't send the kidster over anything but the mildest portions of the track. I'd say the guy is at least trying to be safe about it - we cannot eliminate all risk from life can we?
P.S. Send the guy a few bux, we trashed his site.
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People build airplanes, and live a long life
People build CRASH DURBY CARS.. and live a long..
People build there own homes, and live a long...
What the heck does this have anything to do with showing up on Darwin awards? He knows how to weld, he obviously understands metalargy and well, anyone can do this.
Now if it was done by some hackers running linux that stole there daddy's blowtorch and used cutupp computer cases and garbage cans, then yes, that could possibly be a death trap.
but people do alot of things on there own, this one is just a cool ass roller coaster. I'd be the coolest kid on the block, err farm, if my dad did this.
But hey, we built a treehouse 15 feet off the ground and did other things that weren't totally safe or professional.
but thats life'
Actually I had the idea during Sept 11 of a system where /. users could 'donate' server space to a distrbuted cache system. This would work by the /. admins assigning links that they think would get slashdotted a cache option. When this happens /. would start cahcing the site at different servers and everytime someone clicked on a link it would be redirected to one of the caching servers.
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Larry Niven in his "Tales of Known Space" series wrote about a floating criminal gang that would monitor the news for riots and other massive public gatherings.
The cool part was that they would use "stepping disks" (very much like Star Trek transporters) to enter into the crowd, steal a couple of items, and then get out before the police could get things under control. There were government attempts to control this behavior, but these were "professional" thieves that hacked the global transporter system. (Larry Niven even described some problems with transporter machines being found in every livingroom... I digress here though.)
I agree that Slashdot is quite a bit like this floating party that zaps information providers.
There are times, however, when this kind of behavior is useful. The DeCSS mess was one of those cases where I knew it would be important to spread the word on Slashdot and make sure that copies got to everybody and their cyberpet.
No.
I have just kicked my Rollercoaster Tycoon addiction.
Oh well, time to fire it up again.
Now where did I leave that expantions pack CD.
The site is up and running again.
'nuff said...
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Jeff
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decent four-point harness. The picture of the kid sitting there with a plain old lapbelt is a little scary.
Other than that, it looks pretty good. One thing to note: even though it may not go as fast as full-sized coasters, the tight loops and turns may provide equivalent, if not greater, g-forces. I'd be curious about the speeds and g this thing reaches.
Evil is the money of root.
Dear Slashdot; I'd like to say thank you to everyone who contributed to helping me purchase more bandwidth for my site. That bandwidth (5 Gigs) has been all used up so the site will be down until the hubub dies down unless someone else feels like contributing. There are a couple of mirrors up and I sent off a copy of the pages to another person to create a better mirror with all of the pictures. Hopefuly that will be up later so you all can see the coaster. I am flattered with all the attention and I'm over my frustration of last night when the site initially went down. Like many people online my site is an extension of myself and with it down it's like a part of me is not functioning but I'm learning to deal with it. I'll make sure the new mirror is up later tonight for the Blue Flash pictures and I'll have a link posted to it as soon as it's up. I'm going to be speaking to John (the coaster builder) tonight and I'll let him know what everyone thinks. Please check out the pictures at the mirrors and if you are interested in coasters please revisit my site (www.negative-g.net) sometime in the future but not all at once. Thanks Paul B. Drabek Raven_Rider@negative-g.net
i seriously think i know where this coaster is. should be on US 41 between terre haute and vincennes indiana. weird... i always thought how cool it would be to ride that feckin thing when i drove by it. i didnt realize it had a loop :)
At Disney World, you can build your own roller coaster using a computer, and then ride in a simulator. It's really cool!
How much longer till he makes it into the Darwin awards?
I like the idea of someone going out and building something because he (or she) doesnt like the alternatives. This is really cool, and at least it isnt a sub orbital vehical powered by hydrogen peroxide
I like replies better than Karma, even if they are flames, because that tells me I got someone thinking.
I can see it now, it's going to read:
"Poor webmaster purchases new T3 connection and computers after mystery donations appear via paypal!"
"i can never say no to anyone but you"
Note to Newbie Slashdot submitters witha bandwidth cap. Submit a story near the end of the month. Now he has to wait 2 weeks to allow someone to see his site.
A Beowulf cluster of these things?
Beer.. It's not just for breakfast anymore!
I got home from work, spoke to John - he's psyched...the BBC is going to interview him - and put up a mirror of the Blue Flash pictures only. The mirrors listed above didn't have all of the pictures including John's new track design so check them out at http://www.geocities.com/negativeg2002/ Have Fun! Paul B. Drabek
If this guy builds a ride like "Batman" the ride at six flags then count me in for one!!! My backyard will hold at least 5. 3 dollar fee to get in. (plus insurance info cause...well...you know.)
You want the same sensation?
Drive to work late in rainy weather in a Dodge Colt with bald tires on a bad road (or was that bad tires on a bald road?)
Table-ized A.I.