Skip to main content

Las Vegas Stratosphere pictures

The Tower is 350 meters high, equivalent to 110 floors.  It’s a panoramic tower!

It is a rollercoaster -- at the top of the tower!
A second “fun ride" is an elevator, which rises to the top and then descends, making people feel the effect of up to four times the gravitational force! 

This ride“simulates” as if it’s going to go into space…..but it stops at the last minute. 




And now the last one…..
People sit on the chairs and see what happens....
The whole unit begins to rotate at high speed.
The effect of the centrifugal force causes the mechanism to start to open up and... 








Catch the speed!
It circles at 40 MPH at a 3G force!!! 


Go to the potty before you ride, though! 
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Male logic joke

*This is a story which is perfectly logical to all males:*   A wife asks her husband, "Could you please go shopping for me and buy one carton of milk, and if they have eggs, get 6."   A short time later the husband comes back with 6 cartons of milk.  The wife asks him, "Why the hell did you buy 6 cartons of milk?"   He replied, "They had eggs."
2 comments
Read more

Earth's wobble causes global warming

EARTH’S WOBBLE CAUSES GLOBAL WARNING, NOT CO2 EMISSIONS OR OCEAN CURRENTS, PER TEAM HEADED BY OSU RESEARCHER Digital Journal, “Debate Ends on Central Cause of Earth’s Cooling & Warming,” 8 Aug 2009; Space Daily, “Ice Ages Linked to Slight Shifts in Solar Radiation,” 24 Aug 2009; The Kiplinger Letter, “Climate Change Legislation, What it Means to Business,” 18 Aug 2009. As the carbon dioxide management bill - aka cap and trade - looms in Congress, a new study from Oregon State University emerges that ends the scientific debate on the central causes of ice ages and warming periods on Earth. Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore is fond of saying that the scientific debate on global warming is over - and while he may now be correct in the fact that a debate has come to an end, the central cause behind climate change does not support the carbon cap legislation that is being cobbled together by Mr. Gore and his Democratic allies in the U.S. Congress. The ear
Post a Comment
Read more

Funny dog pictures - If Dogs Worked in Offices

Share this here:
17 comments
Read more