In modern roller coasters, you're not in a cart. You're actually in an open air type cockpit with just a harness over top. When the thing makes the turn, your gondola swings out. Swings out to bank that turn. Computers know how to combine that so you don't even know you're turning. So no longer do you lean into one way or another when the plane is banking.
Is it possible to make something invisible? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice explore transparency, how we measure time on Earth, and how airplanes have changed.
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