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Weird article title. I was hoping to read an article about the constraints of building tall roller coasters (and hard limits, if any). This is just a review of 4 tall roller coasters, not even the steepest ones[0]. TBD if we can build one with a 500 foot drop.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_roller_coaster_ranking...

I remember messing up my math in high school physics and accidentally designing one of these of my own.

I was surprised that I had a physical queasy reaction to reading that.

We changed the title to a somewhat more accurate subtitle.

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