Dual Stop Bungee Jumping |
December 4th, 2012 |
| ideas |
Normally a bungee jumper experiences force upward roughly proportional
to the distance the cord has stretched. You jump, speeding up, then
the cord's resistance to stretching overcomes gravity, and after a
period of slowing you come back up. Acceleration, deceleration. If
the cord were to snap then you would have instead acceleration,
deceleration while still moving downward, a snap, and then
acceleration downward again. While most people are plenty terrified
with an ordinary bungee jump, to properly thrill an experienced jumper
you could surprise them by simulating this. Put some sort of catch
halfway along attaching the cord a second time to the jumping platform
so that the effective length is reduced, and then once the person has
substantially slowed release the catch to give them more length.
Perhaps also playing a recording of a breaking cable.
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