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elfsFor a place as cold and wet as Seattle, it's always surprised me that our local major amusement park is half water rides-- slides, pools, "river rafting" and the like. It's fun, in a very power-hungry way; it's a little disconcerting to see the radiant heat blasting away from exhaust stacks in 72F (22C) weather, all to keep megaliters of water just a little warmer than the ambient air.
Earlier this year the partk announced it had a new attraction. That linked-to article claims that the now-named "Riptide" attraction has a "patented exit mechanism" to ensure that riders will eventually be pushed out of the centrifugal bowl portion of the ride, but hydrodynamics is more or less the same at a scale of a half-meter across, or 15 meters across, and there is just no getting around this fact: the ride looks, and acts, exactly like a toilet bowl. You are not so much "pushed" as "flushed." You get an authentic turd's-eye view of the process.
Earlier this year the partk announced it had a new attraction. That linked-to article claims that the now-named "Riptide" attraction has a "patented exit mechanism" to ensure that riders will eventually be pushed out of the centrifugal bowl portion of the ride, but hydrodynamics is more or less the same at a scale of a half-meter across, or 15 meters across, and there is just no getting around this fact: the ride looks, and acts, exactly like a toilet bowl. You are not so much "pushed" as "flushed." You get an authentic turd's-eye view of the process.
