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hash@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

The real dream machine

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The real dream machine

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hash@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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  • Chill Dude 69@lemmynsfw.com
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    Sure, most girls aren’t likely to respond in a positive way, if you say something like: “hey, if you ride my dick in that thing, are you on top? Or are you technically to the side?”

    Most girls are gonna be like “eew, no. Just no.”

    But the thing is…a few girls who hear that shit will respond with something like “LET’S FIND OUT!”

    They are the real ones. You don’t just want to hang out with them for sex. You want to hang out with them, in general.

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      Username checks out.

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        Don’t bring up middle English words to him yo, it’s a can of worms.

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      This is the kind of comment I’m here for.

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      Who would down vote this?!? You, sir, are able to see the wold with a clarity most can only dream of. 😉

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    The electric requirements would stop you from putting it in your backyard.

    The motor is 3 Phase around 150A. Residential areas are generally not wired to be able to offer 3P power to customers. You would likely need to rent some commercial space to be able to get the electric hookup.

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      If you didn’t run the lights, it’s only 33kW motor, less in newer Starships

      Assuming you had 208V 3ph, that’s under 100A. Much less if you are in commercial area with 240V 3ph

      If you don’t plan to spin 48 people, you could replace motor with a 120V single phase motor 5hp and remove a lot of weight from the ride (cut holes in every other fiberglass panel)

      A decently small generator (relative to a full trailer carnival ride)… could power this. There are many tow behind 50kVA diesel generators. (Another $8k)

      BTW the reason these UFO/gravs are for sale is because they are all rotting, the fiberglass panels that hold it together are like paper now and too expensive to repair.

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        nods knowingly

        Indeed. 3p.

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          Look what I really pay them for is for them to know and for me not having to. They say 3p, 3p it is, whatever gets the monkeyfunkin’ GRAVITRON spinning!!

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          Your browser does not support playing HTML5 video. You can download a copy of the video file instead.

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          Three penis. It’s a type of electricity with three penises.

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        I don’t know much anything about electric motors but could you use the same motor and just spin the thing up more slowly? Or would you need a different motor for that?

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        I mean if you’re going tonreplace the motor just put in a small car or motorbike engine at that point.

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      Shut up, nerd! Let me have my gravitron

      • Ann Archy@lemmy.world
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        Yeah four-eyes! We want results, not complaints! Now get back in the HOLE!

    • PatFusty@lemm.ee
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      Nothing that a couple of cat batteries hooked up in parallel can’t fix.

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        Sounds like an innovative, potentially disruptive technology.
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk3xBhqcjqY

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      I mean a residential area home isn’t gonna have room anywhere for the thing in the first place.

      which is why I had mine installed out back behind the stables, that we me and the livestock can all enjoy it.

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        Better still, buy an empty lot and it is your residential home

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          THIS IS MY OWN PRIVATE DOMICILE AND I WILL NOT BE HARASSED…BITCH!

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          seems like it would make cooking… exciting. I say go for it.

      • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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        Mmmmmmmm, Milkshakes…

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          His milkshakes brings all the boys to the yard.

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            And they’re like, it’s gravitron.

            Damn right, it’s gravitron.

            I could teach you, but it’s five tickets to get on.

    • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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      You’d also need a buddy to be the operator for it to work

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        Cheap timer clock from the dollar store you say?

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        Nah, just get a Bluetooth power button that you strap to your wrist.

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      Power company asked if I wanted a three phase meter when I was checking power requirements for wiring my shop up.

      I just needed a different meter.

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      Good thing my house backs up to a funfair! Place in garden, unplug the nearest fair ride… et voilà! New income stream for me!

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      Ooooh. I could hook this up outside my uncle’s store.

      I hear him talking about his setup all the time when something goes wrong and I regularly hear “it’s 3 phase”.

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      Two words. Diesel generator.

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      Could get a large dedicated panel and rotary converter.

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      Within 20 years I bet we’ll have small fusion reactors that just sit onsite and generate all the power you want. If we survive WW3 that is. A toaster-sized generator will be able to run a gravitron no problem.

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    Honey, I’m home! Fire up the mothafunking GRAVITRON!

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    It’s actually going to set you back $120k, but still a better investment than a cyber truck

    https://wisdomrides.com/equipment/view/51

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      Why does it have a Denny’s light package?

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    I was so jealous of the carny who would get up and walk around on the inside wall.

    • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
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      Yeah one of them did that near me and then he fell in and get splattered on everyone.

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        In? In the Gravitron I rode, it was just sleds on the slightly-slanted walls that went up when it got up enough speed. There wasn’t really anywhere to fall into. I mean yeah, he could easily break an arm or something, but nothing that would splatter him.

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          Tbf we lost gravitron privileges at my country fair because kids kept getting fucked up trying to stand up on the walls.

        • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
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          Oh you’re right. It was a scrambler ride, not graviton.

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            A scrambler doesn’t have walls? It would definitely splatter someone anyway.

            • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
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              Right what threw me is that the particular scrambler was at an amusement park not a carnival. It had walls and was in the dark with lights and music.

      • 𝕯𝖎𝖕𝖘𝖍𝖎𝖙@lemmy.world
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        That damn centripetal force!

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    You spin me right round baby right round like a record baby right round round round

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    Ye old pukerator

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      The more I think about it, the more I figure…if you had one at your house, you could become the fucking Rodney Mullen of that thing. Like, forget just being able to stand up and walk around. A few hundred hours of practice, and you could jump rope, juggle, have a whole tea party without spilling anything, sleep in it to see if it gives you superpowers and/or immortality. The possibilities are endless.

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        It’s like NASA training at home. Next stop, SPAAAAAAACE!

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    Well if you’re okay with the perpetual maintenance costs which include paying someone who knows how to maintain it if you don’t know how to

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      If the meth head Carnies can figure it out, it can’t be that hard to work on.

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      Doesn’t the same go for cars tho

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      dude carnies are cheap. you just have to catch them drifting through town every few months.

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    This was, by a long shot, my absolute favorite ride and memory as a kid. 🥹

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    A puke extractor?

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