Going To Extremes–Vomitorium On Wheels: If you don’t want to fork out $200 K to ride with Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic into suborbital space, the Six Flags Great Adventure Park in New Jersey is planning a more modest alternative, otherwise known as the world’s wildest roller coaster. To be called Kingda Ka (huh?), the thing will take thrill seekers from 0 to 128 mph in 3.5 seconds, and rocket them to a height of 456 feet off the ground.

“An animated depiction of Kingda Ka shows the coaster creeping slowly, stopping and then launching forward horizontally at nearly 130 mph before climbing at a 90-degree angle more than 45 stories above the park.

The coaster then spirals 270 degrees as it plummets, flattens out and climbs again as it shoots over a 129-foot hill, which the company says will make riders feel weightless. It’s over in about 50 seconds.”

Whew, I’m almost about to hurl already. Let’s see. Here’s a question for management: how many heart attacks and exploding blood vessels are predicted in your computer models? Oh, and how many lawyers do you have on your payroll…?



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