Marc

But the trips are meant to be about fun surely.. not somone telling people what to do and what not, ive never been to a meet up like that..

I agree with some of the comments made, but with a large group its going to be impossible for every one to agree on what to do, especially with today being an especially busy day on park..I do agree though it wasnt the most organised.. And err firstly, this is the first chance ive actually had to login.. secondly its not really my place, people are bound to fall out time to time, obviously if it got out of hand it would be more down to the parks security team to deal with, not me or anyone else here. Ok what more planning can be done to a meet up in a theme park other than arrange a time and place to meet? Theres no point what so ever trying to say what rides etc we will go on in advance because there will allways be different factors involved not letting that happen. And I dont think me taking the picture would have made any difference what to ever to the success of the meet up. Glad to see you feel so strongly about the matter, look forward to hearing your ideas

There will be a DJ at Stealth for the "EXTREME WEEKENDER" event between 4th - 6th June.I do expect though it will be more modern music and not WWTP.

There having power problems in Colossus area (Chertsey side) the generators are there to run all rides on that side of park.It dont surprise me at all they didnt open slammer on a unreliable power supply.

Thought it was a very good ride, shame about all the trims but thankfully they dont stop it from being an enjoyable ride.The inside drop is also very cool, alot more forceful than I expected too and the launch backwards and even the forwards bit into the station are pretty fun!

And you can blame Intamin for them how? I have a Ford car, if I dont service that, look after it, maintain when required and it falls apart after 10 years, is that fords fault? Whilst I'm not blaming the parks, things like that should be spotted way before they happen, Do you see Stealths cable snapping, or Colossus trains derailing? Aslong as rides are run and maintained to manufactures guidelines, 9 times out of 10 they will run fine.

Intamin are decent

Thats one word for it I guess

I overtook a tank today.. not somthing you do every day!

Anyone got the full length tomb blaster ?

You wont be in a couple of years... If there is not a general election before then of course

Bad times ahead

Sadly this question and all others about experiences at the speed of light do not have a definitive answer. You cannot go at the speed of light so the question is hypothetical. Hypothetical questions do not have definitive answers. Only massless particles such as photons can go at the speed of light. As a massive object approaches the speed of light the amount of energy needed to accelerate it further increases so that an infinite amount would be needed to reach the speed of light. Sometimes people persist: What would the world look like in the reference frame of a photon? What does a photon experience? Does space contract to two dimensions at the speed of light? Does time stop for a photon?. . . It is really not possible to make sense of such questions and any attempt to do so is bound to lead to paradoxes. There are no inertial reference frames in which the photon is at rest so it is hopeless to try to imagine what it would be like in one. Photons do not have experiences. There is no sense in saying that time stops when you go at the speed of light. This is not a failing of the theory of relativity. There are no inconsistencies revealed by these questions. They just don't make sense.Despite these empty answers, nobody should feel too put down for asking such questions. They are exactly the kind of question that Einstein often asked himself from the age of 16 until he discovered special relativity ten years later. Einstein reported that in 1896 he thought,``If I pursue a beam of light with the velocity c (velocity of light in a vacuum), I should observe such a beam of light as a spatially oscillatory electromagnetic field at rest. However, there seems to be no such thing, whether on the basis of experience or according to Maxwell's equations. From the very beginning it appeared to me intuitively clear that, judged from the standpoint of such an observer, everything would have to happen according to the same laws as for an observer who, relative to the earth, was at rest. For how, otherwise, should the first observer know, I.e., be able to determine, that he is in a state of fast uniform motion? One sees that in this paradox the germ of the special relativity theory is already contained. Today everyone knows, of course, that all attempts to clarify this paradox satisfactorily were condemned to failure as long as the axiom of the absolute character of time, viz., of a simultaneous, unrecognizedly was anchored in the unconscious. Clearly to recognize this axiom and its arbitrary character really implies already the solution to the problem.''In 1905 he realised how it could be that light always goes at the same speed no matter how fast you go. Events that are simultaneous in one reference frame will happen at different times in another that has a velocity relative to the first. Space and time cannot be taken as absolute. On this basis Einstein constructed the theory of special relativity, which has since been well confirmed by experiment.Questions of relative velocity in relativity can be answered using the velocity subtraction formula v = (w - u)/(1 - wu/c2) (see relativity FAQ: velocity addition). If you are driving at a speed u relative to me and you measure the speed of light in the same direction (w = c in my frame), the formula gives v the speed of light in your reference frame as, v = (c-u)/(1 - u/c). For any speed u less than c this gives v = c so the speed of light is the same for you. But if u = c the formula degenerates to zero divided by zero; a meaningless answer.If you want to know what happens when you are driving at very nearly the speed of light, an answer can be given. Within your car you observe no unusual effects. You can look at yourself in your mirror which is moving with the car and you will look the same as usual. Looking out of the window is a different matter. The light from your headlights will always go at the speed of light in your reference frame. It will strike any object in its path and be reflected back. Everything else will be coming towards you at nearly the speed of light, so the light reflected from it will be Doppler shifted to very high frequencies--towards the ultraviolet or beyond. If you have a suitable camera you could take a snapshot. The objects passing are contracted in length but because of the different times of passage for the light and effects of aberration, the snapshot will show the objects you pass as rotated.

Glue is made up of a substance that sticks to things and a solvent that keeps it liquid until you want it to stick. When you put glue on a piece of paper, the solvent gradually evaporates until the glue becomes sticky. When the glue is in a bottle, there is a space inside the bottle above the liquid that is full of air. So why doesn't the glue dry out? Well there's a limit to the amount of solvent that can evaporate to fill the space in the bottle. Once the space is full of solvent gas, no more solvent evaporates from the glue and the glue stays runny.

This is a fantastic offer, especially if you have a Merlin Capsule, Ends up being £4 each with annual pass. Better value than any where else on park, and the food being the best quality on park too.

After riding Rush last week I dont really notice any difference, one swing does go slightly higher than the other but this has all-ways been the case. Its still packed with air time and importantly, a huge crowd pleaser, just have to look at the reactions of people both on and off the ride to see theres nothing wrong with it.

Lol, your certainly not any more

Possibly, although obviously September 11th attacks happened before the war, but then if we should have gone there in the first placeis a whole other argument :)But we are there now, and I feel w need to finish what we started.

So we admit defeat and accept things such as Sept 11th, 7/7 are somthing we just live with?Not a life id personally like to live

Because we are at war with these people, because of the 1000's of innocent people they have killed. The people of the armed forces are there fighting for us, our freedom and to stop the atrocity's of September 11th ever happening again. If we pull out now, we will have lost the battle and these monsters will continue terrorising us. Because I'm not in the Army.

Why? We are at war with monsters who have killed 1000's of innocent people in attacks such as Sept 11th, 7/7 bombings, along with many others, and failed attacks which would have undoubtedly caused 100's more innocent people to die. That is why I feel its important that we finish of the war we started and defeat those responsible for the attacks.

Its a war, loss of life is an unfortunate part of that.We have to stay in and fight till the end.

I not sure on that one, but I guess they didnt expect what happened in the states to happen! I think its important who ever wins that our troops are left there to finish of the job they started. Would be an awful shame for all those who have died in the conflicts to have died for there country to just pull out at this stage.

Started in America!!

Tories are scaryLib Dems are no where near ready to run the country.Labour FTW!Although not all that sure they will win!