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.

An analogy (may not be apt)

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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. :-)

yeah neat do you remember Hanna-Barbera Days?

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Aren't you happy some do, though?

[aralin]

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.

Re:Aren't you happy some do, though?

[josh crawley]

And this exact explanation of how new ideas emerges comes from the weirdest places sometimes. For example, a guy in Australia (grocery sacker) was an "engineer" in his spare time. Well, he created the worlds known fastest gun. The speed = 1,000,000 rounds per second using electronic ignition between propellant in a tube. Even Sandia National Labs bought rights (of what I know). Maybe he knew metalworking and thought he could make a better 'gun'. He did.

The best inventions aren't came up in stuffy "invent rooms" in government labs or corporation research projects... It's the people who actually do certain jobs day in and day out. After becoming experienced, they have an insight nobody else (other than friends in the field) can have.

And to compare, Linux was a hack job. Linus needed less restrictions on the source code. He started to hack away at the kernel, substituting things he thought was better.. In the end, look what he has built. He wasn't a lofty computer science professor or likewise, he was a student who thought he knew of a better way of implementing his OWN kernel.

Re:Elaborate HOAX! No way to complete last loop!

[Raven_Rider]

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 [e-mail]

Safety inspections

[VAXGeek]

What kind of provisions have to be made for safety inspections? Can anyone get a permit for this kind of thing?

Re:Blue Flash Pictures on Negative-g.net

[tuxlove]

You ever thought about giving priority linkage to the subscribers (say, release the links to submitted-but-not-yet-approved sites so that they can get there before the slashdotting)?

Howzabout slashdot caches the page for subscribers, kinda like google? That would solve the problem nicely.

Re:Clever Scam

[bgarcia]

I'm just getting pissed that you people took my site down...

Settle down. Nobody here intentionally brought your site down.

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.