Thursday, January 2, 2014

Question #1: Mercury or Jupiter


My favorite roller coaster is “The Hulk” located in Disney World at Islands of Adventure.  “The Hulk” is a modern day roller coaster that uses high amounts of acceleration and components that provide hydraulic or pneumatic power.  It is a launched roller coaster, which gives a lot of speed. “The Hulk” would be best on planet Jupiter because it will travel quickly because it has more gravitational pull and this will help the roller coasters’ velocity and speed. Jupiter is a much larger planet and has more mass than other planets so the roller coaster could be larger making room for more design of loops and hills within the roller coaster. Unlike Mercury with all of its mountain ranges, the ground on Jupiter is smooth and would allow for more placement options. With Mercury being the smallest and furthest from the sun, this would make the environment not the best to enjoy a roller coaster at high speeds. Mercury also has several meteor contacts and large impact craters, this would make it unsafe for riders on Mercury. So for my favorite roller coaster “The Hulk”, Jupiter would be a better planet to have a roller coaster over Mercury. Ultimately Earth would be ideal with the equal parts of gravity and energy that it has. 



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