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Build Your Own Roller Coaster
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.
Ummmm...first off I'm the guy you all have slashdotted. Secondly I saw it go through the entire circuit several times. It's a 20 foot drop followed by a 10 foor loop followed by a small hill that's about 5 feet high then a downward helix to the lift. It works. I'm a coaster enthusiast and I've built several coasters using coaster design programs (No Limits is the most realistic - www.nolimitscoaster.com) and I built an exact replica of it and it worked there as well. This is not a hoax! Paul B. Drabek Raven_Rider@negative-g.net
Although you'll have a tough time finding someone to pay for more bandwidth, I've seen several people who have offered to temporarily host copies of your site. If you take someone up on that offer, it would at least resolve your short-term crunch. Pay for a little more bandwidth, but have your main site redirect people to the mirror.
As for people taking your site down in April, I wouldn't worry about it. Slashdotters don't have that kind of an attention span. After a week, this article will have been forgotten.
Those who do return in April are probably genuinely interested in coasters and your site, so don't be too quick to dismiss them.
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