Friday, September 21, 2007  I've slipped into some alternate
universe  I've just learned that the State Fair of Texas is
opening a new skyride. The old one closed almost thirty years
ago after a fatal accident. The new one is bigger and better and
run by computer and can take people in wheelchairs, etc....
Anyway, it's supposed to be safer.  So I was wondering how much
safer it was. I could see that the design was a lot different,
but I wasn't sure that it was actually designed so that some
idiot couldn't cause another accident. Or maybe the cars were
all maned with armed guards who would shoot anyone who didn't
behave themselves.  See, the way I remember it, the accident was
caused by some guys who deliberated caused one of the cars to
hit one of the supports and stop the ride. So that car stopped,
but the cars behind it kept coming. So a second car hits the
first car that stopped, and the a third car hit the first two,
and then a fourth car hit the other three. Only the cable isn't
supposed to hold four car