Knoebels announces they are working on a classic!

TeknoScorpion said:

Or be serious like Jeff and Rob Jones.

Serious? Like Rob (Nasai) Jones? The only thing Nasai is serious about, other than his sweet wife Tomoko, is his 12 year Wild Turkey! ;)

--George H

What song are you parodying, Tek? I can't figure it out.

mOOSH - must be some Janet Jackson schlock.

Let's see, last I looked, we still have the technology to dig holes, drive trucks with big rotating tanks containing a mix of cement, water and gravel, convey that mix into the previously dug holes, bolt pieces of wood together, lift a number of cars up an inclined plane, and stop them at the bottom again.

We can laminate and make curved wooden members now, we have better wheels than they had in the 1930s. We have better machinery to cut and form wood.

Last time I looked, we still had gravity and friction and momentum and centrifugal and centripedal force. Geometry and calculus hadn't changed, and the formulae for designing and constructing curves is still the same as it was 70 years ago.

Oh wait, now I get it... they won't have slide rules to do the calculations. And they won't have manual typewriters and carbon paper to type all those specifications. Who still sells linen paper and fountain pens for making drawings? And without Thelma Lou working down at the switchboard, how will they ever be able to call each other on the party lines? How could they ever build a Flying Turns at Knoebels? Nate's right, the technology IS extinct. All those poor people will be getting off the trolley and there won't be anything for them to ride. Waaaaaah! :( :( :(

Silly RGB, gravity is also extinct and we're never getting it back ;)

That should save a bundle for NASA.

That's one small wheel for man...one giant cypress trough for mankind!

Well, I don't have an I-Pod Rob, so I guess I missed that announcement.

I'd rather not have an iPod... that's one "toy" that does not appeal to me.

This obsession with ipods is almost toolish.

I have an iPOD...I love it! Its great to use at the gym.

The only thing I can see using an iPod for is music. I can't see any use for the new iPod that plays movies- watching movies on that tiny little screen does not appeal to me.

Well right...I feel the same. I have a 4gig mini that only plays music. I don't need it to do anything else. Heck, my cell phone doesn't take pictures...that's what my camera is for!

I was going to buy an iPod at one point but I figured I would get very little use out of it. Aside from time spent on a plane, I can't see when I would use it. When I'm at the gym I usually grin and bear whatever it is they're playing at the time. In the car and at home, I have CD players and tons of CDs.

But you aren't cool unless you have a microscopic piece of plastic that can do everything! Why are you so stuck on such obsolete technology like an iPod that can't even show movies? What's next? Are you going to build an 8-track from scratch as a pet project?

Already did. Works great with the betamax.

A digital player makes perfect sense if you run more than a half-mile a day...cuz you'll bounce a CD right off its track, huge buffer or not.

But I never saw the sense of an Ipod--except maybe the Shuffle. They're overkill for what I'm gonna do with it. Besides, I only wanna be POed should something happen to my player (stolen, kisses the floor, etc) instead of tearful.

Plus, I can't even fill 256MB with music that I actually wanna hear while working out since I compress my MP3s to 56k.

But back on (off?) topic...body-building technology has been lost forever. I don't know why anybody would risk bringing it back from a business standpoint. Not that it won't work or that everybody and their mother won't absolutely love it. It's just odd. But that's not exactly what I said either. Don't you read?

-'Playa

NOTE: Severe fecal impaction may render the above words highly debatable.

Right. I think an iPod is was more than I need. Besides, if I really wanted to bring music with me on the go, I'd probably learn the way to put it on my PSP. I frequently travel with that.

Just be happy that someone is building a Flying Turns period!!!

If I wanted to build a wooden coaster in-house, I could easily call up someone who has built wooden coasters and has the know-how to help me. It's easy to get a consultant who KNOWS about building wooden coasters and has the experience doing so.

The same is not true for a flying turns. Knoebels can't call up anyone with experience constructing a flying turns because one hasn't been built in about seventy years. Knoebels engineers also can't travel somewhere to look at a flying turns, study it, learn how it was built, learn how to maintain it, etc because there are none.

Thus, building a ride from scratch in a manner that no rides existing today were built in presents some unique challenges. To argue against that is ludicrous when Knoebels has all but said they are working on the ride, but it might not get built. If it was as easy as building a wooden coaster, why the possibility that it won't happen?

-Nate

You're grasping at straws dude. Let it go.