The Exponential Force of Gravity

Wow, I got so excited writing my travel journal (I like to call it Australian Escapades!! – yeah complete with the exclamation mark) here (and hopefully you are as excited to read it! Ha ha ha). I just wished that I don’t have to spend the whole day reading text books (about a foreign topic of Digital Signal Processing – foreign for me at the present moment) and muse in this blog instead. Don’t get me wrong, I like my new job, but still….

OK, let’s go back to Thursday 25th of August 2005.

Dream World was in our agenda for that day. And the adventure continued….

The first thing that caught my eyes (and ears, apparently, as it came with a very noticeable noise) was The Tower of Terror. It looked scary, stomach-churning and the juddering sound just exacerbated things. However, I felt like having to gather my courage before really going to take a ride.

So off we went (with partially-mustered guts) to the other ride, which as nerve-racking to see as The Tower of Terror.

This ride is from which the article’s title was derived. The Giant-Drop, a row of yellow seats, innocently invited us to experience the exponential force of gravity. With all loose belongings removed, including my glasses as I still want to have my fully-functional aided eyesight after this, we sat down on the seat side by side. Buckle up!!! And we were ready….

Firstly, we were slowly escalated to the tower’s top. We felt a bit heavy, not only for the D’Alembert principle (remember Dynamics) but also for the somewhat unwillingness to be dropped down from you-don’t-wanna-know height above the eagerly awaiting Mother Earth.

Clank! We heard the pulley stopped hauling us up. Oops. The time will come… soon….

One…

Two…

Thr… Aaaaaaa... Huh??

OK, so there we were. Experiencing being pulled down by the magnified-exponentially gravitational force.

And… huh??? Just like that. Trust me, it is not as scary as you thought it might be (or at least that was what we thought).

No more than six seconds after the sudden drop, we came into halt and were slowly brought down to the comfortable altitude (which equals to ground level).

And there we were, staring at each other and said “That’s it? Gitu doank?”