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The next full week of my arbitrary and capricious comparisons brings some surprises! Here's my humor blog for you:
- MiSTed: The 72 Hours Saga, Part 31
- March Pairwise Brackety Contest Thing: Nostalgia versus Radioastronomy
- Statistics Saturday: _Star Trek_ Theatrical Movies by Political Affiliation of the US President at Release
- March Pairwise Brackety Contest Thing: Kansas versus Countershading
- March Pairwise Brackety Contest Thing: Cabotage versus Film Photography
- What's Going On In Mary Worth? Why is Popeye in repeats? December 2024 - March 2025
- March Pairwise Brackety Contest Thing: Being a Liquid Goo versus Win/Win Scenarios
- MiSTed: The 72 Hours Saga, Part 32
Last we looked at Kings Island we were looking at the Flight of Fear ride. How'd that turn out? We had just stepped into the flying saucer and you can see ...
Continuing aboard the USS Discovery Flight of Fear queue. It's pretty nice how they have an interesting curve for the queue within the saucer.
More atmospheric stuff to make the queue interesting.
Here's the best picture I could get of the window? Viewscreen? Space thingy.
And finally, the actual launch station! The ride dispatcher gets a pretty nice throne to sit on here.
And there's the cryonic stasis tubes or whatnot for the aliens.
Train getting back. It's a linear induction motor launch, so it goes from zero to fast in no time flat and without a lift hill, and the trains have five cars, but it still seems like it takes a while to cycle the ride.
Back outside. We went back to the vicinity of Banshee, on the supposition that whatever closed things wouldn't last. Here's Invertigo, a Vekoma Invertigo-model ride, which is basically the Boomerang shuttle coaster except that half the seats face backwards.
Oh, the shoot-the-chutes, I wonder what's going to happen here?
I should have guessed this was coming next!
So there's Banshee, still shut down, and we didn't hear what had happened yet.
The evening sky had some gorgeous cloud cover, though.
And here's the Eiffel Tower by evening glow. Note there's a drinks stand at the base. The fountain drinks were fine but the place had been taken over by bees who were not aggressive per se but could leave you pretty darned nervous. The operator offered to pour drinks for us but we were confident it wouldn't be that bad. There were way more bees than we were counting on. We got through un-stung, though.
Trivia: François Jean Dominique Arago, director of the Paris Observatory from 1830, resigned his post rather than swear allegiance to Louis-Napoleon when the president became Emperor Napoleon III. Napoleon III refused the resignation and left Arago in place until the astronomer's death in 1853. Source: In Search Of Planet Vulcan: The Ghost in Newton's Clockwork Universe, Richard Baum, William Sheehan.
Currently Reading: Seriously Curious: The Facts and Figures That Turn Our World Upside-Down, Editor Tom Standage.
