My Roller Coaster

In LA class we are making a roller coaster. My roller coaster is called Nitro and is located in Houston, TX. The length of the ride is 2 miles long and the speed is 155 mph. It has the tallest drop of 500 ft. Nitro has lots of drops turns and loops. The G-force of this ride is 7.4 and has a 54 inch height requirement to ride. To build this massive ride, it took one year and cost me 3.1 million dollars. When my staff finished, I was excited to ride it and once I got off it made me dizzy, but it was worth it. Once the ride opened, the line was so long people didn’t get to ride but the park gave some them a free pass to come back and try again. This ride has been a huge success and I hope it continues.

 

Constellation Activity: Pegasus by Dianne K.

Pegasus

The meaning of Pegasus is the “winged horse”. Surprisingly, Pegasus was born from medusa when Perseus decapitated her. Bellerophon, who was known for slaying the Chimaera, a fire breathing monster who had a head of a lion, the body of a goat, and a tail of a serpent, tamed Pegasus. When Bellerophon was trying to go to Olympus to join the gods on Pegasus, he fell off of him and lied on the ground. Luckily, Pegasus made it to Olympus and carried Zeus’s lightening and thunder. Zeus sent Pegasus up to the stars.

Pegasus looks like a horse with wings. It is located around the area of 1121 square degrees. Pegasus is formed by eight known stars and the “Enif” which is a orange supergiant, is the biggest star and it marks the nose. “Enif” is 672 light-years away. Alpha Pegasi is the third brightest star that is in Pegasus and is about 140 light years away. It marks the saddle of the horse.

 

Roller Coaster Chaos by Imani S.

 

Awesome!

My roller coaster, The All Around the World Car Wash is a 4th dimension roller coaster, that is a Wild Mouse, which goes all around the globe to different places, like China and Japan. That’s why it’s called The All Around the World Car Wash. The car wash part of the name is because it goes through a stream of fake throw-up. The passengers will think that it is real vomit or some kinda goo. Of course I won’t leave my happy passengers looking and smelling like goop so the coaster goes through a tunnel that shoots water on the passengers. Just before the ride is over, the coaster has air conditioning that dries them off. Since my roller coaster is called The All Around the World Car Wash of course it has to be the best ride EVER!! These people waited in that long line. The length of my coaster is 5,692 feet With drops as long as 335 feet. The coaster is made of steel and it has wood to support it. I have 11 drops and every drop the coaster goes 110 mph. There is also this amazing figure eight. Well, I always encourage my passengers to enjoy their stay so they won’t feel like they wasted their money. Hopefully they would have eaten some food before they got on the ride! Here are some things that I encourage them to eat before they get on the ride: Chili Cheese Hot Dogs, Large Fries, Funnel Cake, And A LARGE soda. So after they eat all of that and go on my ride on a scale of 1-10 for their sickness, it is 100! In this whole ride, the coaster goes upside down 9 times. You go up and down, side to side, twists and turns. It’s just crazy! My ride is located in the great state known as the Sunshine State, which is also the state where the Gators live, and it’s located where all the kids love to go, DISNEY WORLD!! I hope you enjoy my roller coaster when you come to Florida!

By Imani

 

 

My Roller Coaster: Jail Break

My roller coaster is a steel Sit Down roller coaster named Jail Break. The ride is supposed to make you feel like you’re running away from the police. The “hijacked car” is a cylinder-like cart, the base of the cart is made from recycled cars and the top is a glass cover. The “car” is 15 feet long and 5 ft wide. It holds 4 people. The highest velocity during the ride is about 120 mph. The highest drop is at the end, which is 569 ft, going straight down. My passengers will not be sick unless they’re faint-hearted. The beginning of the ride begins when you go into the cave, and there is broke jail rails on the top, signaling that you have just broke out of your cell. You slowly go out of the cave, and drop 250 ft straight down. You can hear sirens, but you keep on speeding up this hill, and slow down at the top, dropping 324 ft. You’re going really fast, and you go through a loop. You start to go up a tiny hill, but you screech to a halt. You see red and blue lights flashing from the other side of the hill, and a booming voice says “STOP IN THE NAME OF THE LAW!” You then hear your tires screech again, this time going backwards. You go backwards through the loop, up and down the mountain. At the base of the mountain, you hear a huge noise and a rock moves, revealing a second path underground. You go in, through a glass water tunnel with fish in it, you go up a 156 feet hill and drop straight down. Your going pretty slowly through a loop, the second loop faster, the third loop faster and so on. The more you go through, the smaller and faster they are. The last one goes extremely fast and “shoots you up” a hill, going at 120 mph, and going straight down a 569 foot hill. You slow down, and you’re on street pavement, no more sirens. There are 9 inversions and it is located on Alcatraz. My roller coaster is made out of steel and wood. It is the second most popular roller coaster and has won many prestigious awards. It is the best in town and it’s made of the best material, steel. It is two and a half feet long, while its hills and drops are one and a feet long. My roller coaster goes so fast that you can’t hear yourself think. The drops are really steep you want to throw up! It goes upside down two times and by the end of it there is a chance you might be sick! One kid even said, “I got so dizzy and sick that was the last ride I rode for the whole rest of the day!”

 

The Viper

This is the Viper, it is in Lydia World, NC.  You stand up on this steel coaster and spiral up a fast track, then shoot down 90 degrees. You are caught by two bumps, and hit by a loop. By now you should be feeling sick (g-force 1), but you are not even close to the end of the 450 foot long ride! You head upwards again and go out onto a broken track. After holding there for 20 seconds, you are shot backwards and down a drop underground. The track curves upwards out of the dark, and stops you at the top. But don’t get out! The ride isn’t over. The track races you to the end at 200 mph. Your car starts rushing towards the next ride at an unstoppable speed. Luckily it swerves right on time and comes to a quick halt. The ride is over, and the other car begins to climb the upward spiral…..

“PIRATE BLAST!” (Roller Coaster Description)

PIRATE BLAST!, a roller coaster proposal.
Sent to Wonder Land architecture at 1:21 PM

Alright guys, this is it, the crossover hit no one is asking for. They just don’t know they want it. Here’s the thing, you know those kiddie rides where the kids shoot targets? We’re going to be expanding the demographic on those rides little bit. You get the benefit of people looking for a thrill, and you get the family aspect that the shoot em’ up rides have. Real simple, a steel roller coaster running on LIM, the cars have little cannons on em’. They fire lasers at targets on a board as the car makes the slow ascent. About 15 mph, everyone gets comfy, shoots some targets, people get points. But then, after the rising, they go into a giant enclosed cannon. They go even slower while in the cannon, and then… BOOM, speedin’ up the hill at 80 mph. This is where the hard targets come in for the riders. Goin’ real fast, harder to hit the targets. Those targets, worth more points. Then, 2 loop-dy-loop goin’ down and they’s are goin’ REAL fast. I mean REAL fast. I’m talkin’ 90 miles per hour. Then, on the top, a single target, for the elite who have already mastered this ride. If they are capable of hittin’ that target, they have pretty much already won. We want this target to be iconic. A legend. If you hit that target then you the king of the world. What’s better, we give the winners some cheap souvenirs if they win. Good enough to give an incentive, but not so it costs us too much money. This ride is going to give this park a name. I’m tellin’ ya, you go with my idea, then you gon’ be swimming in green.

Roller coaster

Dino Scare Coaster by Justin

Dino Scare is a coaster that has a steel frame and titanium supports. The theme is dinosaurs and the coaster is built around the dinosaurs. The coaster is a flying type where each two person chair is held by a pteranodon and has a G-force that is guaranteed to make you sick enough to make you extremely dizzy. This coaster has 17 inversions and a velocity of 100 mph. The coasters steepest drop is the drop of the neck of a seismesaurus at 1,267 feet down. The length of the coaster is 7,567 feet long and 1,677 feet high. This fabulous coaster is at the Disney Animal Kingdom park Orlando, Florida.

 

My interesting, calming spring break vacation made me talk and get refreshed because. . .

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In my spring break this year, I went to visit my grandparents in Princeton, New Jersey, while my sister was in France and the rest of my family was working. While I was on my vacation, I did many things, like go to New York City, join in some of my grandparents’ routines, and see the beautiful Princeton Campus. In New York, New York, I explored town in the rainiest day of the week and saw the broadway play, Annie. When I was in Princeton, I ate at my grandparents’s favorite restaurant, PJ’s, and played plenty of tennis with my grandpa. On my last day, Sunday, I was sad to leave, but glad to go to church in Princeton’s gorgeous chapel. All in all, I look forward to going back, and having more fun!

 

My Own Constellation by Dianne K.

The K

The myth behind the K is one day an unknown god named K was walking along the forest. He always was curious and always wondered about how to spell his name. He suddenly plopped on the ground and started drawing lines. He wanted to spell his name and started to make a letter. He kept on drawing and drawing until he knew that the shape of this: K, was perfect. He then was so thrilled with his masterpiece he threw it in the sky. The letter flew and flew and flew up in the air and formed a constellation in space. This is the constellation K. And the letter we know today.

Sirius is one of the stars that is in the K. It is a blue supergiant and is 8.6 light years away from earth. It is one of the brightest stars visible and has a magnitude of -1.44.

 

Capricornus by Justin

Constellation name: Capricornus the goat headed fish

 

Capricornus the goat headed fish has a great tale in Greek mythology it goes that Pan, god of the wild, got his place in the sky for helping Zeus defeat the Titans. However, when Pan was attacked by the monster Typhon, he dove into the Nile River and turned himself into a goat so he would not be found. When he started to drown, he changed his bottom half into a fish.

Here is some information of one of the stars in Capricornus.

Iota: top astronomer ID 1590

It relates to the Southern Hemisphere

Magnitude 4.28

Flamsteed 32

Right ascension 21h 22m 14.8 sec.