I love roller coasters a lot, but I'll tell ya, I can't do the wild mouse single car style ones. They jerk me around a little too much.
I agree! I hate the ones that make me dizzy. But roller coasters in general are cool. Have any neat history on them?
Well, in the 17th century in St. Petersburg, Russia, there were mountain slides that had 50 degree drops to slide down the mountains.
Okay, I had NO idea they were trying to do roller coaster type things in even the 17th century. That's kind of hilarious. I'm sure people had to have died. What else is unique about roller coasters?
Oh I'm sure you're right about that. Not exactly safe, let's say. Wooden roller coasters have steel strips on wood track. Pretty rickety and scary.
Yeah, I'm usually not a fan of the wooden ones, when they're creaking under you as you go over them. There's got to be other cool roller coaster attributes you could tell me about, right?
Definitely! You can have brake sections on some parts of the track to slow you down. Make it more suspenseful right before you go over a big drop.
Oh, is that how they do that? I always wondered. Anything else you could surprise me about when it comes to how they do what they do?