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World Tallest Water Slide looks fucking terrifying.
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Spring-Loaded
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Pretty sure they make about the US national average. There's no way I should be making anything near what they do by sitting my ass down in front of a computer for hours each day.
Brolic Gaoler
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The wedgie this would induce would have you choking on your built in underwear.
sixteen-bit
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Anus is clenched
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
1700 feet, so just a bit shorter than the one in the other link Dai101 posted (1768 feet).
Apparently tower climbers like that make around $55 an hour or so (around $114k a year).
You're in a raft. If you get a wedgie, you have other things to worry about.
Junior Asparagus
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Verruckt? More like verfuckt. I dunno about that one. I would like to see vids of people going down it though.
WhooooOOOooo!
Seriously though, that is just too much for a slide. My heart would beat out of my chest looking down from the top.
Anticitizen One
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my legs tremble just looking at the picture
SneakyStephan
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what about...
He's just a dumbass who is running for a darwin award...
At least the other guys are doing repairs
freenudemacusers
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Hey, he could be field testing climbing chalk
what's this from?
thezerofire
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looks fun
Spring-Loaded
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Where'd you see that number? All the salary sites I've looked up the job on (and this neogaf thread) said they make between ~26 to ~65k a year.
I think people read that. The thought that there's something between you and the slide make it even more unsettling.
Then why do people keep posting things like "the friction will make my back sore," "I'm gonna break my back," "I'm 125 lbs. I'm gonna fly off," etc.
Spring-Loaded
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Well some people haven't, of course. This is neogaf after all
I'd say fewer people ignored it than average though.
Our local water park has a slide that has a loop, although not completely vertical like this one.
Im too much of a bitch to go on it though.I can go on the other 83 feet one that goes straight down just fine though.
That looks like WEM.
On topic, I would not go on that slide. The pictures make me feel as if I could be flung off the side!
This so much.
I've tried tall waterslides, I love tall roller coasters so why not right? Never again. I think I left my fertility in that freaking slide. I only ride slides that at least half of the course is curved from that experience.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
In the video link Darkflow posted, I saw a comment about it. Could be just BS, or a senior tech's rate maybe.
what about...
*faints*
Nothing wrong with that since it's an enclosed tube.Our local water park has a slide that has a loop, although not completely vertical like this one.
Im too much of a bitch to go on it though.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Unless for some reason you can't get enough speed to clear the loop and you end up stuck.
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I guess safety inspectors and designers as well as park owners and a large amount of park visitors.
All insane.
One of the lead lifeguards there told me they're working on designing the tubes so you can't fly out. I'm not sure exactly what they have in mind, but I'm sure it'll be safe.
DXLelouch153
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i rode roller coasters with loop de loops
the ones with the harness
this is nothing
the ones with the harness
this is nothing
My old man did that and I would guess he was nearer to the 65k end of that. He loved doing it though and had some pretty awesome prank stories about it.
Charlie McCarthy
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Yeah some of the responses here are pretty funny, as if they just build the thing and hope for the best. If it wasn't safe, they wouldn't be building it. The last thing these park operators would want is for someone to die.
Twilight Gap
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Just remember to aim for the bushes.
10/10
evilromero
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My feet tingled looking at that.
No. No nononononononononono.
No. God no. What the hell. I have a fear of heights, I don't know why I clicked on this or why I continued watching through to the end. No. Nope. Nope.
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Jesus Christ.
haZethew0rld
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I've never rode any slides, but i've rode really tall rollercoasters in the past sooo, why not.
Our local water park has a slide that has a loop, although not completely vertical like this one.
Im too much of a bitch to go on it though.
I did that loop slide a couple years ago. I just about backed out about a half dozen times while going up and I was with 3 other people. One of which I told "make me go before you so I can't back out of this". My stomach felt as though it was sitting in my sinus during that entire wait.
When I finally got up there after the 35 minute stair climb and wait it was all over in like 7 seconds. You basically walk into a plastic coffin/chamber thing that's at a fairly steep angle and you hear a timer that counts down from 3 or 4 , then just drops you.
Ideally you stay motionless with your arms crossed and you fly through the thing so damn fast that the loop is literally unnoticeable. Seriously, the entire slide is an enclosed tube with a single opening at the end of the loop... presumably in case you get stuck there ? All I know is that I heard the beep, beep, beep and then CLUNK I see a flash of light and then seconds later I'm gently spat out the end of the tube looking up.
The wait and walk was 10000 times more nerve wracking then the slide itself. Honestly the slide pictured on the right of that image is far far worse , nessies revenge, it's just as high up and it has bumps so you catch a bit of air and it's not enclosed like the loop one is. The fear factor for me is that I'm a terrible swimmer and the bottom of that slide has an 5M (15 feet) deep pool you splash into hard , inevitably stuck at least a full meter beneath the surface of the water scrambling to get to the surface.
All that said I would NOT want to ride that gigantic new one posted in the OP.
Lee Chaolan
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