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Featured rides:
Kepler-a-Whirl: The cars travel in ellipses, not circles.
Comet Halley Roller Coaster: 50% off if you determine how long the ride takes (Answer: 7.6 minutes)
Ptolemy's Ferris Wheel: Cars emblazoned with suns, moons, planets, stars, etc, travel around a model Earth in the
center. The planet cars move in their own smaller
epicycles.
Newton gets his own section:
The Bungee: Gravity, firsthand... lots of it.
The Scrambler: Inertia, firsthand... lots of it.
Etc.
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OK waugs, lets try it this way. How about you place it somewhere with really clear visibility and include some high performance telescopes and astronomy bods on hand for explanations etc. |
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As I said, those exist. Call your local amateur astronomy club, they'd be happy to invite you out to their next club viewing night, which will be exactly as you describe. |
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Nonetheless, I'm sure they don't consider themselves a 'theme park', and it is not at all related to this idea. You seem to have gotten onto that "I thought this was..." mindset and are unable to extract yourself from it. |
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All that light pollution - shame on you! |
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Honestly. It's a suggestion for an *extra* attraction. |
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//include// see. So rides and thrills and candyfloss AND huge telescopes.Just because they don't have them now in theme parks doesn't mean for a minute that they cannot be suggested. Telescopes are related fairly closely to astronomy and would fit with the theme. Paint em with stars, train them on a current object of astronomical interest, call it "Andromedon" or something flash,charge a tenner a go and bobs your uncle. |
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Bad news for all those parents who
let their kids go on "The Black
Hole" - no one ever comes out of
that ride (The park's covered
though - small print on the back
of the entrance ticket). |
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I keep getting the title sequence of "Third Rock" going through my head with planets zooming around Saturn's rings. |
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At the entrance gate a sign reads: Event Horizon |
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Instead of a tram you can take a
shuttle back and forth. |
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You can have a relativity
rollercoaster/movie motion ride.
To get to it you can go over an
Einstein Rosen Bridge which is an
optical illusion to look like it is
further than it is, but all of it is
completely distorted physically like
a movie set. + |
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Or a fun house. You stand on a conveyor belt (people mover) that changes speed. When going faster the mirrors make you look smaller (or is it larger?). Although, now we're leaving Astronomy Park for plain old Physics Park. |
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I think the mirrors make you redder or bluer . . . |
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The mirrors in front of you would
be bluer and the ones behind you
would be redder. I agree with bris. |
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“Mommy, just let me take the space walk one more time.”
”No, not after you flashed your moon crater.” |
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Shouldn't the mirrors make you look taller and skinnier
when you go faster, but only to people not moving? And
don't they need to make people not moving with you also
look taller and skinnier? Or something. |
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Ooh, I like. It has Gravitational Pull and Jumbo Size Milky Way bars. + |
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"Where's the little astroids' room?"
"Second star to your right and straight on till morning." |
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I thought about calling the public facilities the "Herschel Restrooms" but that is perhaps not in the best taste. |
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