h a l f b a k e r yRomantic, but doomed to fail.
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a low power vertical wind tunnel with an expanded floor
that has
a lot of plastic moguls made out of a screen of plastic so
that the
wind can come through the floor but the plastic will support
playground attendees who can jump from the moguls and fly
around in the air, playing with gravity.
If
you jumped high enough you would be sucked right into
the sky.
The wind tunnel can be solar powered, with a solar pannel
screen dome powering a giant wind sucking propellor that
would pull air through the hour glass shaped wind tunnel so
that the playground below couls support playground
attendees jumping around a planetary landscape screen.
These could be made really gigantic and support thousands
of people flying around in the air.
You would have to have heavy padding and speed limits.
Elon Musk could fund it.
If it failed it might become a people volcano.
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Tamerlane is probably available via ouija board. |
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This sounds very much like a regular vertical windtunnel, as used for indoor "skydiving", only bigger. |
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If so, all well and good but be aware that these things are definitely not "low power" - they need huge amounts of power, even for a flying area a few metres across, and even though the air is often recirculated so that its momentum is not wasted. |
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Adults need a windspeed of about 120-150mph (depending on how they're flying). Children would need a lower speed (since their terminal velocity is lower), but not _that_ much lower. |
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[+] it has to make a "foomp" sound when the kids shoot out of the top. |
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//low power// I fail to see the attraction. |
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Low power in the sense that the airflow it is not strong
enough to allow people to fly except with the addition of
semirigid wing structures that could be prototyped in this
environment. |
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So... it's not a child entertainment/disposal system ? |
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" Elon Musk could fund it " |
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