This roller coaster is designed to kill people.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euth...T93lT9ujCQuBxs

i think it'd be more efficient to send in batches of less than 24

2 minutes of escalating before the start is going to result in a lot of waffling in which a decent chance of 1 in 24 will want out

of 29 golden gate jump survivors interviewed, 100% regretted doing it the minute they jumped https://medium.com/@ennyman/a-lesson...s-a42f4ef3f970

now i think we can safely factor in some bias here, those who regret are going to make an effort to survive whereas those who don't but survive fall may then give up and let the water finish it off

wiki has over 1,400 suicides on the bridge (stopped counting at 1,400) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicid...en_Gate_Bridge

34 have survived it entirely

estimated 98% die, of those 95% on impact and 5% to drowning/hypothermia after impact

was planning on actually using monte carlo here to determine the optimal amount of passengers but I'm thinking now that's unnecessary as in further reading basically all survivors were pulled out by surfers/coast guard and not really through efforts of their own

probably ideal passenger amount per ride is 1 though, maybe two as some kind of couples thing

also kind of dark reading about the suicides, at least twice a father brought his daughter along too, a 5 year old who was told to jump and jumped and then a 3 year old who was tossed

dark stuff, thought it'd be a fun monte carlo thing to model but now i'm just depressed

please don't monte carlo that

Keep those ghosts away with "haint blue".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haint_blue

What does this mean?

run a simulation to determine the optimal amount of passengers if the roller coaster were to be run efficiently

autist rickroll thought it'd be a fun exercise, human rickroll regretted it deeply once he had to read more into suicide and golden gate survival rates and got depressed as hell

Sacsayhuamán

Peruvian megalithic site built using dry stone walls with massive stones.

^ so sick wtffff... that anyone did that 1000 years ago blows my ****ing mind

Not megalithic.

Your head may actually explode if you dig deeper into much grander stone structures that most people learned about in 2nd grade.

sick condescension bro, but its too late, my head already exploded from all these

Cosmic latte
Sedlec Ossuary
52-hertz whale
Bat bomb

wtf is with all the hate for Sacsayhuamán

Well it was incorrectly described, its nowhere close to megalithic, and as the other poster pointed out, if that blows your mind, say the Pyramid of Gaza, a more impressive structure built 3.5 thousand years before Sacsayhuaman should completely annihilate your mind.

I would not call pointing out any of the above hate though.

yes. believe it or not, both the pyramids AND sacsayhuaman blow my mind. beyond a certain size, my mind loses the ability to understand how ancient societies transported and manipulated enormous stones in such a way. if someone wants to post a link to their favorite, most impressive pyramids, i will quote it and express just how annihilated my mind is.

What about castles?

Windsor castle was built the same time as Sacsayhuamán.

The point being Sacsayhuamán is not ancient.

AGREE TO DISAGREE

900 hundred years ago is not ancient, its not something you can disagree with.

Though it could seem it to a yanklandian.

More relevant to the thread than most of this page:


https://twitter.com/chickenpaprika/s...175852544?s=19

It's worth clicking through the tweet to the underlying ones. Some guy who doesn't speak Scots did a combo of looking words up in a dictionary and inventing things in a Scottish accent, and pretty much wrote the entire Scots Wikipedia.

That's pretty funny. Not sure if it is the type of humor that will get a high schooler laid though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Rebellion

during same period as the opium wars, a rebellion led by the self proclaimed brother of jesus christ was going on in China, they nearly toppled the Qing and between 20-70 million people are estimated to have died as a result of the conflict

the rebellion was mostly hakka people, who also compromise a hefty percentage of the immigrants who opened up restaurants in America

belonging to the very distant past and no longer in existence.

Just stop, 1100AD is not ancient history and calling it thus is ridiculous because it puts it in the same category as history from -2000BC.

The middle ages are not ancient history and arguing against this is one the most perverse ridiculous and absurd hills to die on instead of just admitting a mistake I have seen on the internet.

Also all historical objects discussed are still in existence.

It's different when your civilization springs up in isolation like the Incas (and their forebears) and not standing on the shoulders of 4000 years of countless civilizations to use as examples like the people who built Windsor Castle. It's not like the Peruvians had all of Roman history and knowledge to study, or Arabic numerals to borrow. Comparing old world and new world dates wrt to "puts it in the same category" doesn't make a lot of sense to me.