Perpetual Skislope

the hollow room writes: "How about skiing on a never ending slope? A story at New Scientist suggests that some fool is going to try to build one of these. Built like a huge tilted record player, it can spin at up to 30 km/h. Any takers?"

And when you fall on your ass...

[R2.0]

You travel up the hill, go into the equipment area, get sprayed with man made snow, and turn into a mogul.

I want to see it built just for the entries into the Darwin Awards it will generate.

Let me be the first to predict...

[Anonymous Coward]

...that it's all downhill from here.

A good use...

[EricKrout.com]

for all those faulty IBM hard disk drives, perhaps.

Built like a huge tilted record player, it can spin at up to 30 km/h. Any takers?

Couldn't we somehow merge all those screwed-up IBM Death^H^H^HskStar drives into a pseudo Beowulf cluster that would spin that fast?

Of course, I wouldn't want to be skiing on it when a few drives totally die :-/

EricKrout.com officially endorses Ximian GNOME [ximian.com]

always left turn

[doubtless]

and when you go to an actual ski resort, all you can do is left turns, just like how nascar drivers turn right, by 3 left turns.

Eugoogly?

[mESSDan]

I'm not sure if you mean "who delivers the eulogy", or maybe you're making some European reference to the person who creates a page about their demise and puts it into Google's cache?

Either way, eugoogly is pretty funny. 'Yougooglie'

Hang on...

[Anonymous Coward]

Didn't M.C.Escher draw one of these?

Oh wait, that was steps...

rotational speed is important

[LM741N]

"Scientists debated for weeks over whether 33, 45, or 78 rpm was the best speed for skiing"

Re:Geek answer: simulator

[jacoberrol]

there are some things a simulation just can't capture

1. laughing at that guy, who just crashed, as you ride the chair lift

2. the sense of irony as you face-plant into a snow drift

3. extracting snow from your thermal underwear

4. marching up the hill to retrieve your skis

5. realizing those guys in the chair lift are laughing at you.

The old saying...

[FakePlasticDubya]

So couldn't this somehow be used so that someone could end up walking to school, in the snow, uphill BOTH ways?

Re:what if the "record" gets a "scratch" ;)

[Whatsthiswhatsthis]

...where do you go if you fall?

If you can perpetually ski, can you perpetually fall?

Re:And when you fall on your ass...

[rbeattie]

Ever see the opening to the Jetsons where George falls on the treadmill? Like that, except with snow.

-Russ

Re:The perpetual slope already exists

[p3d0]

Yeah? Well, my guess is that tucking brings me closer to the molten core of the Earth, causing my molecules to heat up, thereby moving faster.

Anyone else have a guess?