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• From the days of the first roller coaster ride to today, a competition to build the tallest, long-est, scariest roller coaster on earth has pushed the industry forward into new realms. In 2004, this competition spurred Six Flags Great Adven-ture theme park in New Jersey to announce that they were building the highest and fastest roller coaster on earth. They named it Kingda Ka, after the 535-pound Bengal tiger who resides at the

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• In 2005, Kingda Ka opened for business, claim-ing the title of both the fastest and the tallest roller coaster on the planet. The coaster cars rocket to the top of a 456-foot tower, accelerating from 0 to 128 mph within 3.5 seconds, before a stom-ach-clenching cork-screw drop back down to earth. A second 13-story hill gives riders a few moments of weightlessness before the ride is over, less than 60 seconds after it began.

• The secret to Kingda Ka’s thrill is all in the launch sequence. Whereas stand-ard older roller coasters employ a cable system which slowly and laboriously winches a car to the top of a hill, the Kingda Ka uses space-age hydraulic engineering to launch a car in exactly the same sort of way an aircraft is launched from an aircraft carrier, with similar thrust and G-forces involved. The system is basically a high tech catapult, with a giant hydraulic launch system delivering 12,500 horsepower in a single colossal blast – twelve times the horse power of a Formula One race car. Eight military grade 500-horsepower hydraulic motors – which took a year to construct – charge up the accumula-tors, forcing hydraulic fluid into the chambers under great pressure. When a trigger is pulled, the pressure is released and the car is launched at rocket speed. It’s similar in many ways to blow-ing up a balloon and then letting it go. Kingda Ka is one of only two roller coasters in the world that uses this technology. The experience has been compared to being in a jet fighter, or being a drag racer.

• It takes only ten seconds to go from launch to being 456 feet in the air on top of the tower.

• The highest point of the ride is 45 stories tall, which is about 4/5ths the height of the Washing-ton Monument. It’s tall enough that the entire Statue of Liberty would fit under the main arch with 100 feet to spare.

• On foggy days, you can’t see the top of the tower from the bottom.

• The ride cost $25 million to construct.• The entire track is just over 1,000 yards long.• Fittingly enough, the very first passengers were

the engineers who built it. • The braking system, done with magnetic fields

generated by 473 magnets, means there’s no fric-tion to wear parts out. It’s silent, efficient, and fail-safe.

• The roller coaster has four cars, and each car seats 18 passengers. About 1,400 people per hour take the ride.

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est ride since the last car is being pulled by the weight of the front cars, making for some nice whipping action, especially if they are long trains on steep hills. However, sitting in the front has benefits too. The very first car will hang over the first drop waiting for the rest of the cars to crest the hill before the big plunge. Front cars

also have better low-G moments when the train is going over the top of low hill, leading to better stomach-lifting airtime. The ride is usually smoothest in the middle of the train, a good spot for beginners.SAFETY CONCERNS• Two weeks after the grand opening, a bolt unexpectedly sheered off,

damaging the brake system. Custom-made bolts were ordered and installed to fix the problem and prevent it from happening again.

• In 2009, the roller coaster was struck by lighting in the middle of the night when the park was closed. It suffered serious damage and was closed for repairs.

• Because it is so close to the Jersey Shore, the coaster is capable of withstanding hurricane force winds. Nevertheless, damage occurred during Hurricane Irene in 2011, and the ride was closed for repairs once again.

• No one has ever been killed while riding the Kingda Ka. The odds of being injured on an amusement park ride are 1 in 23 million. Ac-cording to the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission, in 1999 over 600,000 people were injured on bikes, just under 100,000 on trampo-lines, nearly 50,000 while using golf equipment, while 7,260 were injured on amusement park rides, and only 138 of those people needed to be hospitalized. Most injuries are due to people fail-ing to follow rules rather than equipment failure.

• Kingda Ka does not operate when it’s raining, because being hit by raindrops at 128 mph is not fun.

• Normal earth gravity has a g force of 1. Astro-nauts in orbit float around in zero g’s. Jet pilots black out at 10 g’s. On a roller coaster, g forces decrease on the way down a hill (making you feel lighter) and increase on the way up (making you feel heavier). At 3 g’s a 100-lb person feels like they weigh 300 lbs. On the way down a hill riders may feel 0 g’s, although most coasters only go down to about .2 g’s, making a 100-lb. person weigh 20 lbs. A typical roller coaster offers a maximum of 3.5 g’s. More than that makes the ride too much. That’s about the same g forces as astronauts feel during a space shuttle launch.

ONE-UPPED Kingda Ka was the world’s fastest roller coaster

until Formula Rossa opened in Abu Dhabi in November 2010, which reaches a speed of 150 mph, reaching that speed in 4.9 seconds follow-ing launch. The hydraulic launch system is iden-tical to the one used on the Kingda Ka. However, Kingda Ka still retains the title of the world’s tallest roller coaster.

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Overcoming the Odds:PHINEAS T. BARNUM

• Phineas Taylor Barnum is remembered today for the circus that still carries his name: Barnum & Bailey. Barnum got rich because, as he stated, “There’s a sucker born every minute.”

• Barnum got his start in show biz after meeting a man who owned an old black slave named Joice Heth. Joice claimed to have been George Washington’s nanny. She said she was 167 years old and had the papers to prove it. She really looked the part: blind, half paralyzed, wrinkled and toothless. Yet her mind was sharp and clear. Joice’s owner had been exhibiting her and had turned a tidy profit. Yet he was tired of the road, so he sold the act to Barnum for $1,000. Barnum and Joice went on tour, and Barnum learned the principles that guided his career from then on: that advertising and publicity are all-important, and that controversy brings the skeptics flock-ing in. When attendance fell off, Barnum wrote an anonymous letter to the editor claiming that Joice Heth was not a human at all, but merely a clever robot. The debate brought crowds to Bar-num’s door. When Joice finally died, an autopsy concluded she was probably not more than 80 years old.

• Barnum’s success started not with the circus but with the Barnum Museum in New York City. He bought an old, dusty run-down museum and set out to transform it into a flashy attention-getting show that would keep people coming back for more. One of his tactics was to give away plenty of free picture postcards to tourists, who would show them to all their friends back home. Those friends, when they visited New York, would then be sure to stop in at the Museum.

• Barnum discovered that the world loves to ogle human freaks. He made a tradition out of exhib-iting the bearded lady, the fat boy, giants, midg-ets, Siamese twins, albinos, and the Wild Men of Borneo (who were really Hiram and Barney Davis from Long Island).

• It was an elephant that led to his teaming up with Bailey. Bailey owned a circus, and one of the elephants became the mother of the first baby elephant ever born in captivity. Barnum couldn’t stand to see someone else get more publicity than himself, so he offered to buy the two elephants. Bailey used Barnum’s offer to get more publicity for himself. If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em, thought Barnum, and the two teamed up to form the Barnum & Bailey Circus. When their first combined show was scheduled to open in Madison Square Gardens, Barnum paid all ex-penses for 100 top newspaper reporters from all over the country to come and review the circus. The free publicity ensured his success.

• By the mid 1880s, the Barnum and Bailey Circus was earning a million dollars a year. He died in 1891 at the age of 82.

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One Sunday in church a young child was act-ing up during the morning worship hour.

The parents did their best to maintain some sense of order in the pew but were losing the battle.

Finally, the father picked the little fellow up and walked sternly up the aisle on his way out.

Just before reaching the safety of the foyer, the

little one called loudly to the congregation, “Pray for me! Pray for me!”

One particular four-year old prayed, “And for-give us our trash baskets as we forgive those who put trash in our baskets.”

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After several circles and jerks, a little girl in the third pew leaned toward her mother and whis-pered, “If he gets loose, will he hurt us?”

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• It was Scotsman Bertie Charles Forbes, jour-nalist and founder of Forbes magazine, who made the following sage observation: “There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than in being a tenth-rate executive.”

• The prospectors of 1849 might not have real-ized it, but you’re more likely to find a 5-carat diamond than a 1-ounce nugget of gold.

• You might be surprised -- and, depending on your temperament, terrified -- to learn that bats can fly at speeds up to 60 mph. Some can even reach altitudes of 10,000 feet.

• Coffee beans are actually seeds. The fruit of the coffee tree is called a cherry and are said to be delicious. They spoil too quickly to be mar-keted effectively, though, so only the seeds are used.

• Beverly Hills, Calif., is one of the most affluent areas of the country. It was not always such a posh locale, however; in 1920 the population was 674, and most of the land was given over to bean fields.

• All joking aside, those who study such things say that natural blondes tend to have more difficulty driving than those whose hair is of a darker hue -- at night, anyway. The reason? Most natural blondes also have blue eyes, which aren’t as good as brown eyes at shield-ing out light. This means that blondes tend to be more easily blinded by the headlights of oncoming cars.

• When a professional football player retires, there’s a 50-50 chance he’ll get divorced within a year.

• Everybody dreams. Those who claim that they never have dreams just don’t remember them.

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We got stuff.* We got so much stuff that one of the growth industries in the USA today is the mini-warehouse business. They’re popping up in nearly every neighborhood.

A few years ago I rented one of those storage units to store stuff that was left over from a busi-ness I closed. After I paid the rent for six months I realized the stuff in storage was worth less than the six months of rent I had paid. How dumb is that?

My grandfather who died over 50 years ago owned a small farm implement factory in Jules-burg, Colorado. In his factory were all kinds of welding and fabricating equip-ment. He also owned a fishing boat, a nice car, and a lovely house with some pretty nice furniture in it. But you know what? All of his stuff is gone except his house; some other family lives there now.

The wife and I, we have our own stuff. In fact, our house is filled with stuff our kids will never want. Our walls are lined with art and ar-tifacts from around the world, shelves are filled with hundreds of books, the storage room in the basement has stacks of files, trunks of memora-bilia, and boxes and boxes of slides, photos and videos. We don’t even know what’s in some of the boxes.

One day, hopefully not too soon, all our stuff will disappear at an estate sale run by our kids or grandkids. Same thing for your stuff. That’s what


“Kick in the Pants” is a series of columns that will appear over the next six months. A compilation of the series will be made available toward the end of the series. Dr. Ross is the publisher of Tidbits of Greeley. Dr. Ross is also the Voice of Tidbits Radio on 1310KFKA Every Saturday Noon - 1pm. To contact him email: [email protected]

happens to stuff.Here’s a thought that might help us put all

that stuff in perspective: What is left of your life or mine after we are gone is not the stuff we owned but the good we did.

A few years ago at an adult Sunday school class in another state the teacher asked his students to tell about the person who had the greatest impact on their lives. Someone who was there told me that four or five of the students named my father as the man who inspired them the most.

It wasn’t the stuff he owned that inspired them, it was the wisdom he shared, the example he showed, and the bighearted-ness with which he lived his life.

Here’s this week’s kick in the pants: Give your life away for something more than stuff. Someday all your stuff will fade or rust or break or somehow just disappear and

the only thing left will be the gifts of wisdom, love and joy you gave to those about you.

Give generously. Start with the person closest to you. Then help someone far away. And don’t give them stuff, give them you and give gener-ously.

*With apologies to the late George Carlin and his original riff on “Stuff.”

©2012 Ronald D. Ross

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• On Oct. 30, 1893, the World’s Columbian Exposition closes in Chicago. Fairgoers were offered a chance to see the first gas-powered motorcar, an alternating-current power plant, a 46-foot-long cannon, a 1,500-pound Venus de Milo made of chocolate, and Juicy Fruit gum.

• On Nov. 4, 1922, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his workmen discover a stone sarcophagus containing three coffins nested within each other. Inside the final coffin, which was made of solid gold, was the mummy of the boy-king Tutankhamen, preserved for more than 3,000 years.

• On Nov. 3, 1930, the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel between the United States and Canada is of-ficially opened to auto traffic. Each end of the tunnel had a 100-foot-tall ventilation tower; each tower held 12 huge fans, six for pumping fresh air into the tunnel and six for exhaust. The tunnel’s ventilation system still works just as well today as it did 80 years ago.

• On Oct. 29, 1948, a killer smog continues to hover over Donora, Pa. The town’s steel mills and a zinc smelting plant had released exces-sive amounts of sulfuric acid, carbon monox-ide and other pollutants into the atmosphere. Over a five-day period, the smog killed some 20 people and made thousands more seriously ill.

• On Oct. 31, 1950, 21-year-old Earl Lloyd be-comes the first black man to play in an NBA game when he takes the court in the season opener for the Washington Capitols. The Capitols had picked him in the ninth round of the draft. After seven games with the Capitols,

Lloyd was drafted into the military and sent to Korea for two years.

• On Nov. 1, 1967, “Cool Hand Luke,” starring Paul Newman as a tough, anti-authoritarian, poker-playing prisoner, debuts in theaters. The film contained the now-famous line: “What we have here is a failure to communicate.”

• On Nov. 2, 1986, Norwegian distance runner Grete Waitz wins her eighth New York City marathon. She finished the 26-mile, 385-yard course in 2:28.6, more than a mile ahead of the second- and third-place women in the race.

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