How High Can We Get??

I know what you're thinking but no. haha I'm talking bout coasters. How high can we get till we just can take it anymore? 500+ 600+ WHERE DOES IT END. And how fast is terminal velocity where we can'tgo any faster. I know we probably couldn't take it

And how fast can we take launch coasters like dodonpa? How much can the body take in less than 2 seconds?

Basically.. everything is what can we take

I think the only limit to height is what a park is willing to pay for a coaster! ;)

I think that eventually Height wont matter anymore it will be to played out.
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Someone oughta get Bill Gates hooked on coasters cos I'm sure he would want to build a billion dollar coaster. On the other hand I wouldn't like it to be called "Microsoft: The Ride" & it would crash all the time. :)

We'll get as high as the majority of guests will ride, what the parks are willing to pay for, and as high as technology will allow. Intamin claims that they could build a 750 footer with the technology used on MF.

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What about the plans for that coaster on the side of Stratosphere Tower in Las Vegas? It was supposed to be like 700 somethin right?

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Ok, about not being able to take terminal velocity. Just to clear that up, it's way wrong. People do it all the time when skydiving. Just wanted to make that clear before people start turning it into something big.
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I think that the first coaster that hit terminal velocity should definitely be named Terminal Velocity...it's an awesome name, and it's extreme.

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Oh, I've gotten pretty high in the past. And just when you think that you couldn't get any higher, your friend tells you about somthing new and exciting. And then you actually do it, and you're like "Hey, I can fly" and you get a total head-rush.

Wait, are we talking about coasters?

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My fellow readers, you're all wrong. It's the local zoning board and a park's neighbors that'll determine how high a roller coaster can get.

Yeah, but if you have some secluded location like Cedar Point, the zoning board really doesn't care...

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--Slayer: Thrash band, or the next Nostradamus?

terminal velocity = 120mph

no coaster could go faster than that without the aid of boosters or a launch.

Hey, if you're a friggin rih person who owns a park (please god let Billy Gates get one), you could very easily pay off everyone on the zoning board to let you build a huge coaster.

For example: Bill Gates owns Microsoft Land. Basically, it's the same as Disneyland, only everything is computer oriented. As of today, their signature attraction is Pentium 5, an Intamin megalooper. Bill wants to go all out and build the world's largest, most mind-blowing attraction ever. Bill wants to build, yep, you guessed it, Windows X. Bill calls Intamin to build a huge coaster...800 feet tall, 89 degree drop, over 2 miles long, and abundant airtime. They say sure thing. The zoning board says no way in hell. Bill passes out some checks to the zoning board, and then the zoning board says hell yes! Intamin builds the huge 800 foot, $100 million coaster. everyone's happy as lon as they don't are about ride naming.

See? It's that simple!

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Taipan, LOL. Actually, I'd also be very wary of "upgrades", and especially new "operating systems"...
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Space will always be an issue...you can have all the money in the world to build a new coaster as high as you want, but if you don't have the space, then it can't be built.

Terminal velocity will only allow the coaster to go so fast...why build higher than it will be able to accelerate? That would be a waste of money and space. It also doesn't ensure a better ride than something 300 feet or even 100 feet high. That will be the limit.

Even if a park escapes local zoning and pesky neighboors, the FAA still can limit the height.
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Well, I think terminal velocity is ~125 mph. So just find out how long of a vertical drop it takes to erach 125mph, and that will be the lowest hieght of a hill to get the fastest speed possible. I'm pretty sure that the limit will be < 2,000 feet, because the FAA "owns" all airspace above and at 2,000 feet.

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KIBeast said:
I'm pretty sure that the limit will be < 2,000 feet, because the FAA "owns" all airspace above and at 2,000 feet.
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Good point. Very funny but it's the truth.
But yes, Intamin said they could make a 750ft coaster with their technology. Right now I'm trying to get on the Zoning board for the Cincinnati area. Hope my plan works.
***note the sarcasm***
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Terminal velocity is unique to each object, although in a perfect vaccuum it is the same for all objects. In air of course they will differ. Heavier objects have higher TV's tan lighter ones. ~120 mph is approximate TV for a human. It is probably higher for coaster trains because they are significantly heavier than humans.

And believe it or not, pam greasing is an activity that most businesses engage in. So local regualtions can be changed or exempted fairly easily. FAA restrictions are virtually impossible to get around. But there are places where you won't have those sorts of problems, and places you will.

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Wait a minute, Objects fall at the same rate, nomatter what their mass is. If you drop a tenis ball and a hammer from the same height, they both will hit the ground at the same time (in a vacume). The only thing that changes the objects speed would be its wind rsistence. Objects with less wind resistence would have a higher velocity than ones with high wind resistence. An example is a free falling human. If this person "flattens out" while they are falling, then they are creating more wind reistance, which slows down their "falling speed". If the same person falls head first in a streamline manner, then their wind resistence is lessened, due to the reduction of surface area towards the ground. This would cause that human to fall faster than the one with more air resistance. I think it is Newtons law that states that all objects fall at the same spped no matter what their mass is (only in a vacume). The only thing different than a vacume and our atmosphere is air, which leads to air resistance! Its all about aerodynamics and not mass.

Hope my rambling makes sence, and i'm not responsible for my own spelling.