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Roller coasters owe their terrifying existence not to adrenaline junkies or amusement park visionaries, but to Russian winter festivals in the seventeenth…
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Amusement park experts mathematically calculate the exact velocity needed to make riders feel like they are plunging to their doom without actually harming…
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Sensory deprivation is an incredibly cheap way to simulate extreme peril. The famous indoor roller coaster only tops out at roughly twenty-seven miles per…
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That menacing rhythmic noise you hear while climbing the first drop is entirely intentional. Heavy metal dogs continuously drag across a toothed track,…
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The iconic Shinkansen high-speed rail network completely eschews fossil fuels for direct electric power. Because these sleek aerodynamic machines rely on…
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You are driving a 20-mile commute. How much time do you actually save by speeding at 80mph instead of 65mph?
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