Discover Magazine (June 2001)

The June issue of Discover magazine has an in-depth article on some of the health risks of riding coasters, how the human body can withstand G-forces and for how long, that sort of thing. It talks a lot about Millennium Force, and how the coaster can go so high/fast without greater negative effects on the body - how the track is designed with the overbanked turns. Quite interesting, especially the statistics of how very unlikely it is to get hurt/killed on a coaster! I highly recommend it! (Starts on p. 26-7) There are a couple of pics of MF too, but nothing we haven't seen before.

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I will look out for it, thanks for the info!:)

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Well, you beat me to it CrystalKat, I was about to post something about that. The article was excellent, it finally gave a scientific view to coasters. By the way, are there any other Discover subscribers out there, if not sign up because it is a great magazine.

*GRINS at Kevin* ;)

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Po!nt of View: A different look at Roller Coasters.
http://www.crosswinds.net/~justmayntz/thrills/index.html

Yeah, i thought it was a pretty nice little article. The have one of these every few years or so.

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Whoops! Sorry!

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Po!nt of View: A different look at Roller Coasters.
http://www.crosswinds.net/~justmayntz/thrills/index.html

hehe... you better be sorry :P...I beat ya both to it :) (j/k)

Alan Jacyszyn
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