I read that the hydrolators in the Living Seas don't actually move anywhere short of two inches. How do they achieve this effect of descending if they don't actually move anywhere?
I read that the hydrolators in the Living Seas don't actually move anywhere short of two inches. How do they achieve this effect of descending if they don't actually move anywhere?
The hydrolators a long long gone, so they don't do anything aside from sit in the scrap yard.
When they were in place, the doors on one side would open, you would get in, the doors would close. The floor would shake and move up and down a few inches to make you feel like you were moving. "rock walls" would move by the windows on a loop to make it look like you were going down. Then the doors on the other side would open and you would get off.
-dave
What about the bubbles?
I believe the bubbles gave an added effect of movement to the "rock walls" moving. I almost forget about being on the hydrolaters.
AirBut how do the bubbles work?
.....released at the bottom of the window and through the course of the laws of physics, would float upward.
The hydrolators a long long gone, so they don't do anything aside from sit in the scrap yard.
When they were in place, the doors on one side would open, you would get in, the doors would close. The floor would shake and move up and down a few inches to make you feel like you were moving. "rock walls" would move by the windows on a loop to make it look like you were going down.
Then the doors on the other side would open and you would get off.
-dave
But how do the bubbles work?
If you mean, how do they work on the return trip - the hydrolators to the surface did not have the bubble effect.
-dave
If you mean, how do they work on the return trip - the hydrolators to the surface did not have the bubble effect.
-dave
see post 6 & 7.No, I meant on the way "down".
I think maybe the part you aren't understanding is that there were essentially two small tanks of water attached on the outter wall of each hydrolator with a bubbler at the bottom and a rotating rock wall at the back. They'd turn on the bubbler when you were moving "down" and the bubbles would go from bottom to top of the tank making it appear you were moving downward causing the bubbles to float up around you. Picture a box with two fish tanks nailed to the sides with doors in between that you step into/out of.No, I meant on the way "down".
I think maybe the part you aren't understanding is that there were essentially two small tanks of water attached on the outter wall of each hydrolator with a bubbler at the bottom and a rotating rock wall at the back. They'd turn on the bubbler when you were moving "down" and the bubbles would go from bottom to top of the tank making it appear you were moving downward causing the bubbles to float up around you. Picture a box with two fish tanks nailed to the sides with doors in between that you step into/out of.
I think maybe the part you aren't understanding is that there were essentially two small tanks of water attached on the outter wall of each hydrolator with a bubbler at the bottom and a rotating rock wall at the back. They'd turn on the bubbler when you were moving "down" and the bubbles would go from bottom to top of the tank making it appear you were moving downward causing the bubbles to float up around you. Picture a box with two fish tanks nailed to the sides with doors in between that you step into/out of.
Actually, my question is, how do they keep the bubbles from saturating the outer rock walls?
Think of a fishtank... that's basically what it is. A box with a textured belt in it and a bubbler at the bottom of the box. The belt rotates in the box.. and bubbles are made to float in front of it.
The edges of the box and belt are just out of frame from what the guest sees from the window.
Just like a fishtank.. the box isn't airtight.. so bubbles rise to the top and air just escapes out of the tank. New bubbles are made by pumping air into the box through the bubbler tube.
If they were actual glass they were probably 1/4" at best or about what you would see in your average, household aquarium. They would not need to be any thicker at they might have been holding back a few gallons of water at most.I know about the process of the bubbles, I just want to know how they create those panes of glass. Because it would seem like they're pretty thin. How thin are they?
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