nannerdw Posted February 9, 2006 Posted February 9, 2006 I found it interesting that http://www.coaster-net.com/sl/rideglossary.php# has already given definitions for roller coasters that will be 500-700 ft. tall. "- Peta-Coaster- 500-599' / 152-183m at highest point of track, or featuring an equally-sized drop" "- Exa-Coaster- 600-699' / 183-213m at highest point of track, or featuring an equally-sized drop" Are these names confirmed as the official terms to be used for these future milestone coasters? What's Next? The Femto-Coaster?
DragonKhan Posted February 9, 2006 Posted February 9, 2006 Kilo, Mega, Giga, Tera, Peta, Exa, Zetta, Yotta are all powers of 10 and should sound familiar to pretty much everybody using computers. It just happened to be a habbit to name record braking coasters accordingly. But in the end it's completely up to the manufacturer. The latest example, the "strata coaster" drops out of this system... Kilo (K) 1'000 Mega (M) 1'000'000 Giga (G) 1'000'000'000 Tera (T) 1'000'000'000'000 Peta (P) 1'000'000'000'000'000 and so on.....
coasterfreak101 Posted February 9, 2006 Posted February 9, 2006 So does the hyper coaster. Isn't a Mega Coaster a coaster 100-199 feet? And then hyper, giga, strata, etc. These could be names, I think Exa0Coaster sounds alright, but Peta-Coaster.....eh not really.
DragonKhan Posted February 9, 2006 Posted February 9, 2006 Mega is hat Intamin calls their coasters up until 300 feet. B&M again names them Speedcoaster, so there is really no rule. Generally the term "Hyper" is used to descripe the coaster type (tall, airtime)...
ACEfanatic02 Posted February 9, 2006 Posted February 9, 2006 In general, the one who breaks the record gets to term it. Arrow broke the 200+ marker and called it a hypercoaster. Intamin named both the giga and strata coasters. -ACE
DragonKhan Posted February 10, 2006 Posted February 10, 2006 Well, yes, kinda... the only case where I remember a company using some other company's term is Morgan... Any other company simply made up its own term...
DenDen Posted February 10, 2006 Posted February 10, 2006 A sad attempt by that website. Everyone wants to coin a phrase. As for coaster companies, they're just model names. Don't know of any coaster companies using Peta or Exa. Anyone?...
ParkTrips Posted February 10, 2006 Posted February 10, 2006 In general, the one who breaks the record gets to term it. Arrow broke the 200+ marker and called it a hypercoaster. Actually I believe the term first came from publications of the organization who's abbreviation can be found in your user name. This is just yet another lame attempt by coaster-net to be cool and worth someone's time. Anyways, it's just a name. Does the height of the two European Intamin non-looping, lapbar-utilizing, airtime-savy coasters take away from the greatness of those rides? I doubt it. - Joe, who calls Millennium a hyper, Ka and Draster launched coasters and Sheikra a looping coaster...
USRoadTripper Posted February 10, 2006 Posted February 10, 2006 Femto-coaster? Sounds like a coaster that would be great at certain times of the month, and want to rip your head off at others! -Julie
nannerdw Posted February 10, 2006 Author Posted February 10, 2006 Femto-coaster? Sounds like a coaster that would be great at certain times of the month, and want to rip your head off at others! -Julie LOL That would be a good addition to that sex-oriented theme park in Europe. Femto = 10 to the minus 15 That would be a really small coaster! I was thinking that it would be huge, since I thought it was to the positive 15th power.
FlyingScooter Posted February 10, 2006 Posted February 10, 2006 I like the Peta-Coaster. No animals were hurt in the making of this coaster and all mice in treadmills are paid Union scale.
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