User:Fabartus/KWR Query

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re http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Kennywood_racer_blurred.jpg

Looks like the Thunderbolt not the Racer to me

i.e. a commons photo of questionable title.

• Problem: Accuracy or Memory?
• Results:

1. Current Uncertainty! FrankB 20:40, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
2. Action: Generate Queries, Author, coaster buff Wayne, Peter Nelson, Cousin Karen. FrankB 20:40, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

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• This picture is certainly NOT the Kennywood racer, and I would offer expert opinion to that effect on a witness stand under oath as an expert witness (I'm an engineer–so that's even realistic), and grew up visiting this park year after year after year, usually several times over.

1. If it were the racer it would characteristicly show both coasters in their endless cyclic drag race around their common track were it so. The inside train at the start always ends the race on the alternate outside platform, and vice versa—as necessarily there is but one track— topology and the physics of Newton's motion equations demands it.
2. Moreover, the two trains, hardly ever seperate a significant linear distance, excepting for short sharp distances characterized by High-G forces and their causal sudden twists whereever the inside and outside portions need to cross over to alternate as the current occupant on the inside (or outside) track.
3. That necessary behavior has one train first gaining, then passing, then loosing ground so as constantly present a racing feel to the riders, and topologically, necessarily, to give the ride it's characteristic experience summed up by it's very name the Racer. (i.e. 'racers)
4. Around the mangled mobius strip of the interveaving, self-crossing single track physric ala newton require the inside and outside tracks to be of near equal length (acceleration due to slope alters this a bit, but it is almost literally true.) and crammed willy nilly, albeit extremely cleverly into the necessary closed loop, the two paths (tracks) are always near one another as they are not in this photo.
5. More tellingly, the parrallel tracks would never be far away on an outside sweeping curve such as the one shown.
6. Last, and perhaps most significantly, my memory now catching up during the proofread of the above, the racer is certainly in the relative middle of Kennywood, located far away from any parking lot.
7. I could be wrong in that recollection, so I'll check as there is a teensy chance I'm wrong about this outside loop, as there is one, where the two tracks do swoop similar to this. I just think the parking lot is an inarguable clincher.

And since none of that is conclusive, as it's not necessarily a parking lot now that I've looked again... I called you all in to straighten me out. Make Comments Below:FrankB 20:40, 25 March 2006 (UTC)