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SkadDiving - The Slow Motion Effect

The slow motion effect appears to be required for a person's thoughts to move slowly. So how would you study this? Well, I took my entire laboratory to AstroWorld and we went on all of the scariest rollercoasters. But it turns out nothing there was scary enough to actually induce this fear for your life. So I searched around and I finally found something called SkadDiving. Stands for suspended catch air device. Where do you do that? It turns out it's illegal in Houston, but I found one in Dallas.

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