• Chill Dude 69@lemmynsfw.com
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    10 months ago

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

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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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    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