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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]An actual engineer on Reddit is horrified by the entire slide. He said the whole trial and error thing is just ludicrous; real engineers would have done all the computations and calculations to figure out velocity, height, speed, etc. without having to resort to "Shit keeps flying off, let's put net on." It is a free fall drop on a raft that isn't attached to a rail or anything, he couldn't get over that. You're just strapped into a raft with Velcro and sent over the edge of a cliff basically.[/quote]

I'm 08/09/2016 15:58, and I'm and actual engineer (aerospace and mechanical).  I've seen the show on how they built the slide, and I was practically yelling at the TV the whole time.  I told my kids who watched it good thing it was in Kansas, because I would never in a million years get on something that wasn't designed by trial and error--almost drove me nuts watching it.  Point being, correct, real design is essentially done on paper (so to speak, modeling on a computer) long before anything is built.  Modeling and simulation with a lot of computation before any ground is broken.  The whole approach to this was nuts, but nobody who didn't see the TV show or understand design principles would have known that.  I assumed, of course, that there was some oversight or regulatory body who approved the end product.  Terrifying how little oversight there is in Kansas.

Makes me wonder who does that for the parks in VA and MD.....?[/quote]

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