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I didn't even think of that. It's going to have to be co-ed

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I wouldn't care. Fuck no... I'd be too eager to take a ride in a bobsled.

You know... I could probably find a public track and just go there and try it. It's not like it's going to be expensive. There will be tracks pretty much everywhere they have college programs, world competitions, and where the winter Olympics have recently been held.

Yeah, I just looked. It seems they mostly want you to ride with a professional driver if you bobsled - but you can (it looks like) go by yourself - and you can do luge and skeleton. There's a double luge, where you lay pretty much atop the other rider, but there's no double in skeleton.

So, yeah... The next time I'm near one, I'll go. I'm not seeing any in Maine.

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I would think Lake Placid NY would have a track, don't they?

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They'd have gained in height, probably. I don't know if the effect would be that strong.

Here's a fun one... When you wake up, get an accurate measurement of your height. Then, after a day on your feet/working/up and about, go ahead and measure it again. You'll likely be about 0.5" taller in the morning than you are at night. That's just for a single day's worth of spinal compression.

So, yeah, if the forces were exerted in a different direction the effect would be the same - though maybe not as pronounced.

And, yeah, there are a number of bobsledding tracks that I found - including one in Lake Placid. So, it shouldn't be all that hard. The next time I'm near one, I'll definitely at least go look at the track in person. I'll decide how big my balls are when I stand at the top with naught but a skeleton frame beneath me.

It'd be kinda fun to try it in a runner sled, a plastic sled, and an inner-tube. Though those last two are more difficult to control.

It'd be kinda funny if I had a similar time as the real athletes do. LOL No, no... You can't recruit me for an Olympic team. But, it'd be funny - and probably damned near impossible.

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Also...

A 4-man sled can reach speeds of up to 100mph, this means that the athletes can experience around 5 or 6 G’s in some of the harshest corners. Famously one American pilot was made shorter by 3-inches over his career by the forces exerted on his spine!

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If he had the G force exerted on his body the opposite direction would he have gained 3 inches?