The real dream machine

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Sure, most girls aren't likely to respond in a positive way, if you say something like: "hey, if you ride my dick in that thing, are you on top? Or are you technically to the side?"
Most girls are gonna be like "eew, no. Just no."
But the thing is....a few girls who hear that shit will respond with something like "LET'S FIND OUT!"
They are the real ones. You don't just want to hang out with them for sex. You want to hang out with them, in general.
- Username checks out.
  
  Don't bring up middle English words to him yo, it's a can of worms.
- This is the kind of comment I'm here for.
- Who would down vote this?!? You, sir, are able to see the wold with a clarity most can only dream of. 😉

The electric requirements would stop you from putting it in your backyard.
The motor is 3 Phase around 150A. Residential areas are generally not wired to be able to offer 3P power to customers. You would likely need to rent some commercial space to be able to get the electric hookup.
- If you didn't run the lights, it's only 33kW motor, less in newer Starships
  Assuming you had 208V 3ph, that's under 100A. Much less if you are in commercial area with 240V 3ph
  If you don't plan to spin 48 people, you could replace motor with a 120V single phase motor 5hp and remove a lot of weight from the ride (cut holes in every other fiberglass panel)
  A decently small generator (relative to a full trailer carnival ride)... could power this. There are many tow behind 50kVA diesel generators. (Another $8k)
  BTW the reason these UFO/gravs are for sale is because they are all rotting, the fiberglass panels that hold it together are like paper now and too expensive to repair.
  
  nods knowingly
  Indeed. 3p.
  
  I don’t know much anything about electric motors but could you use the same motor and just spin the thing up more slowly? Or would you need a different motor for that?
  
  I mean if you're going tonreplace the motor just put in a small car or motorbike engine at that point.
- Shut up, nerd! Let me have my gravitron
  
  Yeah four-eyes! We want results, not complaints! Now get back in the HOLE!
- I mean a residential area home isn't gonna have room anywhere for the thing in the first place.
  which is why I had mine installed out back behind the stables, that we me and the livestock can all enjoy it.
  
  Better still, buy an empty lot and it is your residential home
  
  Mmmmmmmm, Milkshakes.....
- Nothing that a couple of cat batteries hooked up in parallel can't fix.
  
  Sounds like an innovative, potentially disruptive technology.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk3xBhqcjqY
- Power company asked if I wanted a three phase meter when I was checking power requirements for wiring my shop up.
  I just needed a different meter.
  
  Usually it's the meter and the cabling that needs changing, like an extra phase needs to be introduced but it should be available at street level if any commercial place is around.
  Your shop might have had the cables already and just needed the meter change.
- You'd also need a buddy to be the operator for it to work
  
  Cheap timer clock from the dollar store you say?
  
  Nah, just get a Bluetooth power button that you strap to your wrist.
- Good thing my house backs up to a funfair! Place in garden, unplug the nearest fair ride... et voilà! New income stream for me!
- Ooooh. I could hook this up outside my uncle’s store.
  I hear him talking about his setup all the time when something goes wrong and I regularly hear “it’s 3 phase”.
- Could be done with a large enough rotary phase converter assuming the electronics can tolerate the funky power
  The problem would be feeding it enough power
- Three phase motors are the bane of every siren enthusiasts' existence for this reason. Anything with a motor over 5 hp is likely three phase.
  
  Nowadays VFDs have gotten cheap enough that you can just use one of them to create 3 phases.
  Or you just have 3 phase power at home (laughs in Germany).
  (I actually dont right now, but my house is one of the last ones not to, and its all already prepared for it)
  
  There are some good zoning laws I guess
- Within 20 years I bet we’ll have small fusion reactors that just sit onsite and generate all the power you want. If we survive WW3 that is. A toaster-sized generator will be able to run a gravitron no problem.
- Could get a large dedicated panel and rotary converter.
- Two words. Diesel generator.

I used to turn my body upside down in this death trap and the dude in the middle yelled at us.
- They did? The dude in the middle just sat there smoking meth every time I was on one of these. I stood up on the wall once, with my whole body perpendicular to the floor. It was awesome!
  
  I stood up . . . perpendicular
  Whoooooa. You are legend.
- Haha I did that too if it’s the same machine. It had an open top and you just stick to the side as it spins and hinges 90 degrees. There was a chain but you had clearance to flip yourself.
  
  The Gravitron wasn't the open top kind with the chain. That was the Round Up, and it would lift up after getting g up to speed and go almost vertical.
  The Gravitron was enclosed and had angled walls. I think the walls were padded and would slide up a bit when the machine was up to speed. Heavier people would have their section slide up sooner than others.
  
  You are taking about a Round Up/Zero Gravity
  And no you never turned yourself upside down in a zerog cage.

Honey, I'm home! Fire up the mothafunking GRAVITRON!

It's actually going to set you back $120k, but still a better investment than a cyber truck
https://wisdomrides.com/equipment/view/51
- Why does it have a Denny’s light package?

I was so jealous of the carny who would get up and walk around on the inside wall.
- Yeah one of them did that near me and then he fell in and get splattered on everyone.
  
  In? In the Gravitron I rode, it was just sleds on the slightly-slanted walls that went up when it got up enough speed. There wasn't really anywhere to fall into. I mean yeah, he could easily break an arm or something, but nothing that would splatter him.
  
  That damn centripetal force!

You spin me right round baby right round like a record baby right round round round

Ye old pukerator
- The more I think about it, the more I figure...if you had one at your house, you could become the fucking Rodney Mullen of that thing. Like, forget just being able to stand up and walk around. A few hundred hours of practice, and you could jump rope, juggle, have a whole tea party without spilling anything, sleep in it to see if it gives you superpowers and/or immortality. The possibilities are endless.
  
  It's like NASA training at home. Next stop, SPAAAAAAACE!
- No, that was the Matterhorn. Who designs a tight circular track and then not only spin people forwards, but stop mid way through and spin them backwards? I think that was the 3rd hardest I've ever puked in my life.
  For the uninitiated.
  
  3rd hardest I’ve ever puked
  You can’t just hit and run like this. Spill it.

my hometown's park had one of these. one day it malfunctioned and dropped. I was a kid but for some reason I went to see the aftermath. horrifying. dried blood everywhere...

This was, by a long shot, my absolute favorite ride and memory as a kid. 🥹

Well if you're okay with the perpetual maintenance costs which include paying someone who knows how to maintain it if you don't know how to
- If the meth head Carnies can figure it out, it can't be that hard to work on.
- Doesn't the same go for cars tho
- dude carnies are cheap. you just have to catch them drifting through town every few months.

A puke extractor?
- the Vomitron

Just to be serious for a mo; why the fuck would I want a sports car anyway?
Showy cars are for smoothbrained insecure chucklefucks. I don’t come from money, and I have very little, but I certainly have no psychological need to attempt to appear like I do. Even if I got a gazillion bucks tomorrow there’s no way in hell I’m going to start purchasing shiny shit to show off with.
- I take it you've never driven a finely tuned automobile. It's quite the fun experience.
  
  I actually have but I felt embarrassed as hell each time.
  I’m not against fine tuning and efficiency. I am against A: “LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME!!!” And B: any sort of aggressive driving on public roads.
  If there were such a thing a really ‘nice’ car that was ‘luxurious’ inside etc., but looked like absolutely nothing extraordinary outside, then I might buy one (in the alternative universe where I had lots of money to blow on new cars).
- so there's lot of people - kids who ate lead paint in their childhoods, victims of being dropped on their heads, FAS babies etc., who suffer from cognitive deficits but LOVE the vroom vroom. They love it so much they do illegal shit to their vehicles just so more vroom vroom smoke comes out. They love it more than they love having a livable ecosystem, more than their own children's futures. And if you try to get the crayons out and explain it to them, it just makes them angry.
  that's my take on the situation.
  
  LOL
- You put a new of these bad boys in your yard and no one will mistake you for being wealthy.
  
  This is true.
- Sports cars are fast and handle well. I don’t care for the look of them but they do create a ride like feeling.
- Your inferiority complex has blocked you from understanding how stuff can be exciting. Vroom vroom go fast and sound awesome.
  
  What pity. I really like mangoes, but you’re a very poorly thought-out person.

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