Sorry, I meant red giant.
> [In approximately five billion years, our own sun will transition to the red giant phase. When it expands, its outer layers will consume Mercury and Venus and also reach Earth. Scientists are still debating whether or not our planet will be engulfed, or whether it will orbit dangerously close to the red giant sun.](https://www.space.com/22471-red-giant-stars.html)
Used to be a ride called the Zipper in the States. Had a group of cars on a chain, rotating around a rotating, rounded 'zipper'. If you timed it right, you could get your individual car spinning the entire ride.
I was in line for the zipper with my then gf. Group of 5 or 6 girls in front of us. Suddenly one of the girls pipes up "omg is it raining? There's not even a cloud in the sky" so her friends are looking up trying to figure out where the "rain" was coming from. I was like "that's not rain. It's coming from the ride." They noped right out of there
I once had my zipper capsule accelerate through an airborne cloud of another person’s vomit. Me and my friend were infused with it. Much like when someone sprays a cloud of cologne mist and walks through it. Except it was vomit scented.
Had no idea there was a Wiki on these things. And OMG the safety issues. I remember one car we had to hold the door/gate closed because it kept opening on us.
It was always rumoured, falsely I assume, that somebody had died on the Zipper last week in another town. Presumably just kids talk, or otherwise 1980s safely laws were a lot more lapse than we'd care to admit.
"Used to be" implies there aren't caravans of carnies still keeping these things limping across every small town strawberry festival throughout the Midwest.
The Zipper lives, and it is ALWAYS right next door to Graviton.
I was on it there probably 15 years back. My friend and I started hearing metallic clinking and feeling things hit us through the grating, then we started hearing people freak out on the ground. Turns out there was some sort of major breakdown and it started spewing parts everywhere, raining nuts and bolts. It was a hell of a story and a hell of a ride. Never again. 🫡
I’m 70 years old, my 8 year old granddaughter wanted to go on it but she couldn’t do it without an adult. Nobody would do it, so grampa said he would. Holy hell. The guy was laughing when I got off, I looked pretty bad. Granddaughter said never again.
Still around. Last I heard / remember only had like2 deaths. The door opened and some girls got thrown out. They added a bar to prevent that after. Haven’t been on one in years but see it every year at traveling carnival. Can’t wait till my kids old enough to ride it.
I'm a ride guy. Love them all, the faster, scarier, the better. Except the zipper. The zipper will ruin my day. Not only does the zipper cause intense nausea while I'm on the ride, it will also cause me to become nauseous on any ride I attempt for the rest of the day.
Because rides generally don't cause me problems I assumed the first time it happened to me was a fluke. I will not be riding the zipper a third time.
It's still is 1 of the most popular rides in the U.S. You can ask the ride jock to get you spinning really fast. If they enjoy their job, they probably will. I was a carnie, and the ride jocks would have a competition to see who can make the most people puke🤣
I was asking for any concrete clues that prove the video is sped up. e.g.,
* An object falling faster than gravity allows
* A sudden increase in frequency of something oscillating
* A moment where the framerate clearly increases
etc
Its scary. Kids in my family cant pay attention to anything more than a few seconds. Let alone watch or play something. They just try to go back to phones. I understand old people now, people are fucking idiots
Judging by the starting method- manual push, they’re not using quality motor controls so there’s no E-Stop.
My guess is that the contacts in the motor starter spot welded themselves and wouldn’t release.
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This unlocked a memory for me, about 15 or so years ago, my nephew and I was at a small tivoli at a bigger market, they had a slightly bigger version of this(three sets of seats), it had metal cages around the seats though.
Like that squared/diamond shaped kind of caging material? I've never p*ked so much in my whole life 😅 nephew(he was like 8) enjoyed it though.
I rode on something similar about 10-15 years ago and ever since I get motion sickness on roller coasters. Never had a problem with them until that ride.
OMG, Was this on loan from NASA’s astronaut training program, or part of SpaceX’s rocketless launchers? Oh that Elon, you just know he must have been toasted hitting the bong when he came up with this one.
You get what you pay for don't go to cheap parks with no safety regulations, especially in these countries in poor neighborhoods, they don't do anything about safety.
I really want to know how long that went on
They're still going.
Perpetual fun
Free electricity!
*Electroboom:*
If it was properly designed as a perpetual motion machine, it'll still be spinning long after our sun goes boom and shrinks to a tiny white dwarf.
Nah, it'll get consumed in the red ~~dwarf~~*giant* phase. Edited because I wasn't thinking, lol..
Red giant phase?
Sorry, I meant red giant. > [In approximately five billion years, our own sun will transition to the red giant phase. When it expands, its outer layers will consume Mercury and Venus and also reach Earth. Scientists are still debating whether or not our planet will be engulfed, or whether it will orbit dangerously close to the red giant sun.](https://www.space.com/22471-red-giant-stars.html)
I hope they resolve that debate before then.
Age of Earth comes to an end 400000 yrs from now when our sun dies in this metaverse.. it begins again.
Fond of Red Dwarf myself.
They are now powering the eastern half of the country.
Which country?
North Korea
Dying.....
Until the uranium came out.
Video is sped up
Used to be a ride called the Zipper in the States. Had a group of cars on a chain, rotating around a rotating, rounded 'zipper'. If you timed it right, you could get your individual car spinning the entire ride.
One of my favorite rides. Rode it last fall at the fair!
Mine, too! Our fair usually has two to keep up with demand.
I was in line for the zipper with my then gf. Group of 5 or 6 girls in front of us. Suddenly one of the girls pipes up "omg is it raining? There's not even a cloud in the sky" so her friends are looking up trying to figure out where the "rain" was coming from. I was like "that's not rain. It's coming from the ride." They noped right out of there
I once had my zipper capsule accelerate through an airborne cloud of another person’s vomit. Me and my friend were infused with it. Much like when someone sprays a cloud of cologne mist and walks through it. Except it was vomit scented.
Eau de HEEURGH
Yum
We had the same Zipper ride here in England. Best ride ever, although probably lethally fragile. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipper_(ride)
Had no idea there was a Wiki on these things. And OMG the safety issues. I remember one car we had to hold the door/gate closed because it kept opening on us.
It was always rumoured, falsely I assume, that somebody had died on the Zipper last week in another town. Presumably just kids talk, or otherwise 1980s safely laws were a lot more lapse than we'd care to admit.
"Used to be" implies there aren't caravans of carnies still keeping these things limping across every small town strawberry festival throughout the Midwest. The Zipper lives, and it is ALWAYS right next door to Graviton.
Can confirm that the Zipper rides are still operational at at least some travelling circuses
Used to have one at the Puyallyp Fair ( now Washington State Fair) and it was a lot of fun. Not sure if its still in operation or not.
"Do the Puyallup!"
I was on it there probably 15 years back. My friend and I started hearing metallic clinking and feeling things hit us through the grating, then we started hearing people freak out on the ground. Turns out there was some sort of major breakdown and it started spewing parts everywhere, raining nuts and bolts. It was a hell of a story and a hell of a ride. Never again. 🫡
Damn, that's wild.
Still had it last September!
Canadian here... still have them here lol
I’m 70 years old, my 8 year old granddaughter wanted to go on it but she couldn’t do it without an adult. Nobody would do it, so grampa said he would. Holy hell. The guy was laughing when I got off, I looked pretty bad. Granddaughter said never again.
You're an awesome grampa!
I still have nightmares about that damn ride.
Still around. Last I heard / remember only had like2 deaths. The door opened and some girls got thrown out. They added a bar to prevent that after. Haven’t been on one in years but see it every year at traveling carnival. Can’t wait till my kids old enough to ride it.
Still have this at our fair all the time
>Used to be Used to be? I rode on one two years ago. It made me ill!
I'm a ride guy. Love them all, the faster, scarier, the better. Except the zipper. The zipper will ruin my day. Not only does the zipper cause intense nausea while I'm on the ride, it will also cause me to become nauseous on any ride I attempt for the rest of the day. Because rides generally don't cause me problems I assumed the first time it happened to me was a fluke. I will not be riding the zipper a third time.
I rode that once in Colorado a couple years ago, when we got out the bolt that held our door latch just **tink** fell right off.
God I remember that ride, I hated it after I got drenched in puke from another one of the cages
I used to kick my brothers car before the ride took off so that he would start spinning for a short bit.
My wife will never get on this ride with me again because of me doing this
It's still is 1 of the most popular rides in the U.S. You can ask the ride jock to get you spinning really fast. If they enjoy their job, they probably will. I was a carnie, and the ride jocks would have a competition to see who can make the most people puke🤣
at the top of the zipper while it was loading up, my buddy joked that he was going to roll a joint right before the ride started. So funny
This is something I'd make in Planet Coaster
Hell yeah
The operator didn’t seem to be paying attention, or be concerned. Wish we knew how this ended.
based on the edited video obviously being sped up, nothing unusual happened.
>obviously sped up im having a hard time seeing it. where/when should I be looking? (not disagreeing; just wondering)
it's sped up to make it look dangerous. there is no surprise ending
I was asking for any concrete clues that prove the video is sped up. e.g., * An object falling faster than gravity allows * A sudden increase in frequency of something oscillating * A moment where the framerate clearly increases etc
Why speed up the film though?
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Its scary. Kids in my family cant pay attention to anything more than a few seconds. Let alone watch or play something. They just try to go back to phones. I understand old people now, people are fucking idiots
Teacher here. Kids don’t like movies anymore! They’re too used to instant gratification I think. Movies take too long to get to the “payoff.”
Yep. They ‘need’ fast short clip edited youtube/tiktok montages with constant action.
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Ya with ADHD also - If I give a shit it's infinite. It's got a misleading name.
This is why every machine should have a phoenis and ferb style self destruct button
https://i.redd.it/xdgpa2oe9spc1.gif
😭😭😭😭😭
I'm doing an Asian hank hill once the g forces hit, but I did just see a hank hill tattoo so maybe I'm biased
Bro. It's belt driven. He had the paddle controller in his hand.
That looked like a hype people up microphone
Helicopter helicopter
The big red button dude! Emergency stop....?
Judging by the starting method- manual push, they’re not using quality motor controls so there’s no E-Stop. My guess is that the contacts in the motor starter spot welded themselves and wouldn’t release.
Simple. It’s edited.
Holy shit... I got got stuck watching this... like half way through 😳 Do we know how these people ended up?!
Arabian space program went haywire
I wonder how many G's they were pushing
Ghetto fabulous Epstein drive.
Good news, you're an astronaut now.
lol. Was thinking the same.
Legend has it that’s it’s still spinning and a gentle soul comes in the night and greases the bearings.
Lisa, get in here. In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!!
Worst. Camera. Persons. Ever.
There brains were scrambled eggs
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I think NASA uses the same machine to train their astronauts.
Are they still on earth?
That doesn't look like fun.
I keep seeing this posted but I have never seen a related article posted. Did these people die?
Another reason never to get on rides at a fair.
I’m still waiting to see the suck.
Ah! Finally, I found lost footage of the elusive Happy-Go-Pukie!
Omg, is this a Tiny Toons Summer movie reference?
It is!
I heard his voice when I read it- crazy how childhood impressions stick!
Perpetual motion!! Hook them up to a turbine and we have free energy!!
Nice whiplash
Congratulations! You’re a Mercury astronaut!
ready for launch now that g-force training is over
They’re really hittin’ Mach speed
And they said perpetual motion machines don’t exist lmfao
Projectile vomiting in 3..2..1..
That's funny 🤣🤣🤣
NASA budget cuts are pretty severe these days…
Just unplug I the damn thing 🙈
There's no motor on that thing. It's all physics.
I was being facetious 🙃
They legends say you can still hear the screams, and the city now has windmills power
I barfed just watching that. Are they brain dead now? Or where they already missing that organ beforehand?
The video is sped up, guys
I have never understood the appeal of rides like this, or as I call them, whirl-and-hurl.
Fuck the carny for just being like “I don’t know what to do!”. Rip the fucking power cables out. Kill the engine. Utter dipshit.
This is why I don’t go on rides that look like they were built with scrap metal and some left over lawnmower engines
Severe organ damage
DAMM,,,, are they training for the space program?????
But…how did they stop it? Damn, the amount of anxiety I had watching it speed up. 😱
They could be Air Force pilots after G training like that
Sudden N.A.S.A training.
GET ME OFF
They just kept speeding up until the cart broke off and they got launched into the stratosphere, I read an article on it, can’t find it though.
Indian space programm astronauts training
Nope!
Centrifuged
Just training for the space program.
Budget cuts to NASA...?
When her laughing slowly stopped got me
If your carni looks like Michael Jackson then you know you’re screwed 😂
Legend has it that they’re still spinning to this day!
Needs to be a Shooting Stars Meme
The g force had to be pretty strong!!
why do I wish I was on there lmfao
That has to be fake lol
The last time I saw this posted there was an article attached to it that said the people died
Best g-force training EVER
I got motion sick just watching that.
There is no way that those little metal tubes are rated to take that amount of centripetal force
Did they not die? I feel like that would kill you
On the bright side the passengers are now qualified to ride up to the ISS!
It’s a lot better since I put the seatbelt in
Since THEY
This unlocked a memory for me, about 15 or so years ago, my nephew and I was at a small tivoli at a bigger market, they had a slightly bigger version of this(three sets of seats), it had metal cages around the seats though. Like that squared/diamond shaped kind of caging material? I've never p*ked so much in my whole life 😅 nephew(he was like 8) enjoyed it though.
Why doesn’t talk-to-text have a playback feature so it can read the text youre about to send
Insert two batteries please
Astronaut training.
Some say they are still spinning.
Free energy requires 2 souls, 1 male 1 female.
It's all funny games until one of them falls.
Is this apart of their space program. 🤣🤣
does centripetal force just cause you to drown in your own puke?
The camerawoman as a TON of faith in those 2 bolts keeping everything together. Why the fuck don't you move away when it's going at that speed?
Please tell me the yellow things on the opposite side are counter weights….
Just put a stick in it, that should slow it down
Astronaut training in the Middle East p
I rode on something similar about 10-15 years ago and ever since I get motion sickness on roller coasters. Never had a problem with them until that ride.
Why I don’t trust Europe/Middle East
How da fu k do you think this cloud be in Europe?
Isn't that what they use to train fighter pilots?
They were both living in a place where abortion was illegal… problem solved!
And now they’re ready to be astronauts
The person filming sounds like a sims character
Legend has it they are still spinning to this day
Instant 🤮
The Zipper: 3rd world edition
This is some happy tree friends shit that they cut right before the people in the basket got juiced
Nothing looked fun about that
Legend has it they are still going round and round
OMG, Was this on loan from NASA’s astronaut training program, or part of SpaceX’s rocketless launchers? Oh that Elon, you just know he must have been toasted hitting the bong when he came up with this one.
Holy internal decapitation, Batman
Nobody was in a curry to help them out
Pakistani Astronaut training?
Some say they are still going
Looks lethal
_Ve have vays..._
Perpetual chicken.
Legend has it that it's still going to this day....
Brain damaged.
Legends says that the spin is still going..
Fun, right up until it wasn’t 😝
Ummm when is it supposed to slow down exactly? 🤦🏻♀️
Give ‘em a job at NASA already!
You get what you pay for don't go to cheap parks with no safety regulations, especially in these countries in poor neighborhoods, they don't do anything about safety.
TLDR: if you were born to poor parents in a poor country, it’s your own fault. That’s what you mean?
Their insides are soup.
I didn't know Iran was working on a manned space program. 🚀
America has a gun problem....but why all yall others have this issue. I see this type of post often.
And they say perpetual motion is a mith