LongLiveTheSmurfRide

That's Don's seat.

Great post Boiler; glad you decided to throw in your couple nickles. Please do so more often.

The Commodore 64 was my first PC. When I went to school one day and they had a 3.5" disk and they were calling it a "floppy" disk and I was like, "How is this a floppy disk? It doesn't flop?"

I was going to mention Maverick as well. I thought I'd heard that they had to take an element out after they tested and it was too harsh on the meters. I hope DB tests fine the way it is and they don't have to trim it up for an enjoyable ride.

I asked this earlier in the thread, but it got gobbled up in the testing frenzy; but do they have some kind of device on the train or one of the dummies that shows the speed and amount of G's that the ride is achieving?

What are you doing, Gator? I don't recognize you in non-cartoon form.

Hopefully channel 12 will post their video online. I don't get their station at my house.

The same thing happened when they put the last piece of track in; it happened again a little yesterday and of course when there is a chance to see the train out on the track there is going to be a flood in here. This topic has topped at 75 viewers and is probably going to go higher so there is going to be a lot of attention and "meaningless" talk with so many people on here.

We're on a T1 line here at work and I still get mostly black screen.

Last time I saw the train it was in the station. How did it get to the break run? It's like....magic.....*spooky finger wiggles*

I finally got a picture and it's the one from 2:26.

^At least you're getting something. Mine has been black for 30 minutes. I'd be happy with a frozen image at this point.

But tell me this......is the train in the station? LOL.

I haven't gotten a picture for a while. If I do, I'll certainly be posting it up here.

That's encouraging. So we'll get to see them get ready for testing; then we'll be able to view The Racer and Vortex when they actually start testing, lol.

The only problem is that everyone and their mother can see DB from the road and if something happened, it's a good chance someone would see it anyway. I would imagine that most people glued to the cam are us fanboys and girls who know that if it valleys, it's not a big deal because that can happen during tests.

That doesn't seem promising since that was the response yesterday.

Has anyone written Don asking if the cam can be pointed toward DB during testing? I don't want to flood him with e-mails if others are writing.

^ Hmmm. I wonder if they were testing anything on the pile of dirt yesterday.

I have the forums up on my PC here at work for about 10 hours. When I'm at home I don't view or post as much.

I didn't think that was the case yesterday, but now it seems pretty apparent that they're blocking them.

When they do these tests, do they use something to gauge the amount of G's and exact speed and whatnot that the dummies are experiencing?

Someone needs to camp out there now to get some shots. I would but I'm working. Blast!

Just got The Racer on the cam. Must be getting ready to test.

Everyone is probably hitting the cam now that they know testing will be going on. It's blanking out on me now.