• davidgro@lemmy.world
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        26 days ago

        For those unaware.

        “Some early riders came back with lacerations to their bodies, whose cause was later determined to be teeth that had been knocked out of riders’ mouths and become lodged in the interior walls.”

        • mkwt@lemmy.world
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          26 days ago

          A former Navy physician found that riders were experiencing as much as nine Gs of acceleration as they went through the loop.

          v2 / r is a bitch.

        • [object Object]@lemmy.worldBanned from community
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          26 days ago

          This is like reading about early oval racetracks in the US, which were made out of wooden boards: the drivers were getting splinters flying in their faces, aside from a host of other problems.

    • Ann Archy@lemmy.worldOP
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      26 days ago

      Capitalism in a nutshell.

      You get to choose from one million different equally sucky options.