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Build Your Own Roller Coaster

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the things-not-to-tell-your-life-insurance-company dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Homemade roller coasters by doorbot.com · · Score: 5, Interesting

    CHeck out Lugnet.com .Someone recently just made an all-Lego roller coaster, using monorail(or is it train?) parts and it does everything

    Perhaps this is the link you were referring to.

  2. Maintenance by Arethan · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

  3. One more victim by FakePlasticDubya · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Another one bites the dust from the Slashdot effect...

    Perhaps /. 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...

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  4. How to build your own (simulated) roller coaster. by Tyler+Eaves · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

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  5. Should just ask for hosting by gad_zuki! · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.