It will only become active when they hit 88mph.
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Where are they getting the 1.21 jiggawatts?
TiggerDad
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lightning strikes, obviously
GeneralKnowledge
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Why do you think they’re building another solar plant?
gigawatts
and it's pronounced with a hard g like girl, gift, and gif, despite what Doc Brown says.
</stirring two pots at the same time!>
Minthorne
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It's Gigawatts Marty! Oh, and your Kids!
Probably just as fast as walking or as slow as waiting for a ferry.
Rob562
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gigawatts
and it's pronounced with a hard g like girl, gift, and gif, despite what Doc Brown says.
It was properly spelled with a g back then as well, but pronounced with a j sound since way back then both "giga" and "jiga" were used but neither was the dominant pronunciation. It wasn't until later that the hard-g pronunciation came into common usage.
In fact, Merriam-Webster lists both pronunciations, though jiga is first as well as the version in the vocal pronunciation.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gigawatt
-Rob
Which M-W are you using?...
Collins and Oxford only gives the hard g. Webster's New World give the hard g first (followed by dzh and j). American Heritage gives hard g first. None of these gave a sound file with the soft g.
Not to mention I've never heard gigabyte pronounced with a soft g.
Lift Blog
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Seeing the towers go up affirms for me just how short these gondola lines are relative to ski country. We don’t yet know Disney’s speed choice but I think the longest line (International Gateway-CBB) will be around 7 minutes. A chunk of that is the two turning stations at slow speed. The other two lines are probably less than 5 minutes apiece. So on any given trip you are looking at 15 minutes max.
I was thinking...with all the tree clearing, do you guys think it will be possible to walk the length of the gondola system aside from the water by Pop/AoA and EPCOT? Or will security/alligators have a problem with that? At ski resorts, I find the best way to take pictures of gondola systems is simply to ski under the line (or walk in the summer.)
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davis_unoxx
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I feel like Disney will have these lines open in six months. No reason why they shouldn't be.
It probably won't be designed to be walkable. You could if you wanted to but it probably wouldn't be a good idea.
Doubtfull. I think they could have the stations done in 6 months, but not the system operational.
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Grimley1968
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Also, it appears the lines cross over Victory Way and Buena Vista, both at places where there aren't existing crosswalks or intersections (unless I'm looking at the route map on the first page wrong). I can't imagine Disney would want foot traffic in those places, especially Buena Vista.
The way the ropes cross canals and roadways, I'm sure there will be sections gated off to prevent people from walking from the BoardWalk Inn's backstage to the IG station and from the CBR Hub to DHS. Other than that, most of the line you can get under because of parking lots and parallel sidewalks.
But you know, it'd be great is WDW did create a walking path with bridges and road crossings for those few times the gondola isn't working. I would have loved to walk to DHS from Pop rather than use the bus.
Which M-W are you using?...
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Collins and Oxford only gives the hard g. Webster's New World give the hard g first (followed by dzh and j). American Heritage gives hard g first. None of these gave a sound file with the soft g.
Not to mention I've never heard gigabyte pronounced with a soft g.
I hear it is pronounced " Giagawaatt eh" by your nieghbors from the north !
GhostHost1000
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I am still questioning what this will be like without AC
