Astronauts: comparing coasters to space shuttle "absurd"
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New scientific studies have looked at g-forces associated with thrill rides. In past years, there have been reports of alleged brain injury and questions regarding overall theme park safety. Two former shuttle astronauts took part in the assessment and concluded that the rides were safe.
Read more from Space.com.
LMAO, Rollercoasters exert less g force than sneezing our coughing! Take that Markey!
Chuck, who has felt like he was having a anurism once when he had pnumonia.
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It's probably a misquote, but the article is certainly incorrect that there is no risk of greying out. You can grey out getting out of a chair quickly if your blood pressure is low. It just isn't that serious though.
Grey out = condition in which your vision turns to grey due to lack of blood flow to the head. Often accompanied by some dizziness. Does not involve loss on conciousness.
I used to grey out on Batman @ SFGAm. It usually happened on the first drop and into the first 2 inversions. I think of it as an added rush.
He obviously hasn't ridden Titan. But I wasn't at all concerned about greying out for a few seconds in the second helix since I've had more intense, longer-lasting head-rushes from getting up too fast.
He took note of "greying-out", "blacking-out" and "GLOC" - short for "G-Induced Loss of Consciousness," drawing from personal experience. There is absolutely no risk of any of these sorts of conditions while riding roller coasters, he said.
Nice to read news like this, however. The word needs to be spread more and more so that Markey will finally shut the hell up. Unfortunately, my local Fox news station reported the study last week, but I still had friends come up to me the following day asking if I had seen the news report about coasters' g-forces being dangerous. Why? Because A): my friends didn't see the actual report, and B): what they did see was the preview before a commercial break asking the question, and I'm paraphrasing: 'Are roller coasters and the g-forces they deliver putting you at risk?' This does nothing but put a negative spin on the truth. I hate when the media does this (which is just about all the time).
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I like SF,other parks might be better. But is it really my fault I live in texas? *** This post was edited by PoorLittleTexan on 1/27/2003. ***
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