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Olympics
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mike cummings
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hope they could see the fireworks
I heard they shot off 30,000 shells in the opening ceremony. That is a buttload of fireworks and had to have produced a ton of smoke to add to China's already bad air quality.
An interesting factoid. At Disneyland we use an air cannon system to launch our shells into the sky as opposed to the traditional black powder system used everywhere else in the world. Each of our shows would use 71 pounds of black powder to launch the shells if we used the traditional method. Last night we shot our 635th show since converting to air launch. That translates into 45,085 pounds (22 1/2 tons) of black powder that we not burned since converting to an air launch system which has kept the air around the park much cleaner.
Hey D, for Cavemen like me what is JST? I know it's your time zone, but what's the "J" stand for? Japan time?
mick
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that's interesting stuff mike.
i'm sure your method is at use worldwide in similar repetitive pyrotecnic (sp?)
displays? or at least it should be.
that's actually some 'green' information you can't help but agree with.
mike cummings
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Disneyland in Anaheim (the original park) is the only park to currently use this technology. Orlando tried their own version which was a gatling gun type of contraption that sat on a barge in the middle of a lake. It didn't work too well and eventually blew up, fell of the barge and is still sitting at the bottom of the lake.
We were under alot of pressure from the California AQMD to clean up our fireworks process or they would restrict the number of performances we could do a year. The air launch system was designed and built by Disney Imagineers specifically for this reason. We hold the patent for it but will freely share the technology with anyone else interested in building a similar system because it is good for the environment. Thing is, unless you shoot as often as we do, it doesn't make practical sense because of the initial investment as well as the maintenance and upkeep of the system.
An added bonus to this system is we have much more precise control of where we can place the shells in the sky at the moment of detonation.
mike cummings
Nitro Member
good enough for me
vegasnitro
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Olympics ... YAWN.
Too many drugs ... too many commercials ... too many tape delays ... no good rivalries anymore since the fall of Communism and death of amateurism ... not enough coverage of the true amateur sports or the sports that don't prominently feature Americans ... the pros have ruined the big events as the Olympics have lost all of their charm. It is now just one long advertisement for McDonald's and Visa. AND all of the prime time coverage is fluff pieces that try to make you misty eyed ... leave the "16 Days of Glory" stuff to Bud Greenspan and just show us the games ....
Too many drugs ... too many commercials ... too many tape delays ... no good rivalries anymore since the fall of Communism and death of amateurism ... not enough coverage of the true amateur sports or the sports that don't prominently feature Americans ... the pros have ruined the big events as the Olympics have lost all of their charm. It is now just one long advertisement for McDonald's and Visa. AND all of the prime time coverage is fluff pieces that try to make you misty eyed ... leave the "16 Days of Glory" stuff to Bud Greenspan and just show us the games ....
Cough, cough, hack, hack.....Sorry all the pollution was getting to me.
I wore my mask while watching the opening and didn't have any problem
D
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Hi Joe
Japan Standard Time, the rest of the world doesn't spring ahead and fall behind
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willy
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I still like the Olympics. These people work for years at a shot. Phelps is a huge story. I just watched our women fencers sweep all medals. Never been done before.
I guess I can still see what it's supposed to be. But Chris is right about the big name sports..and how it sucks now.
They'll still be some good stories..small town kids living a dream and winning.
I guess I can still see what it's supposed to be. But Chris is right about the big name sports..and how it sucks now.
They'll still be some good stories..small town kids living a dream and winning.
D
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Well being here in Japan and watching the olympics a Japanese TV(AAFES sucks), I wound up watching judo yesterday, it was pretty good, current womens 48Kg world champion Ryoko Tani from Japan upset in the semis, first loss in major competition since 1996. She did win the bronze medal match though. I've always been a big fan of the olympics(since '76 Montreal), the pros in the big sports doesn't bother me because I don't follow those sports normally (American Football and Drag Racing are it for me). More judo today I'm sure.
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Erik
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I'd enjoy the olympics more if they actually meant something. Today there are so many non-olympic events, time trials, championships on espn and around the world that the aura of excitement just isn't there for me. The drugs don't help either. If these events were once every four years, like a few seem to be, I'd be more interested
I say bring back chariot racing too!!!
I say bring back chariot racing too!!!
I like them although the coverage and the over dramatizing of every move gets old. Often we flip over to the Canadian coverage (nice thing about living near the border) You get to see more sports and they turn down the sap meter quite a bit
