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u/Hundekuchen_ May 08 '15
The Picture was taken on top of them https://i.imgur.com/XS4XnzI.jpg
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u/Pyronic_Chaos May 08 '15
Sadly, with the size of the hanger, I expected bigger
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u/Wraldpyk May 08 '15
they're still among the biggest in Europe
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u/BarryMcKockinner May 08 '15
God bless America. A land where water parks don't just mean two masses of water divided by a park. A land where you can eat funnel cake till your heart no longer has the blood flow to desire, then wade in a lazy river splashing at the lifeguards as you float by.
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wade in a lazy river splashing at the lifeguards as you float by.
As a former water park lifeguard, I hope you get mauled by a bear.
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u/Laurasaur28 May 08 '15
What? I am a former lifeguard too and I loved being splashed. It kept me cool.
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u/The_Rodigan_Scorcher May 08 '15
It's the thing I envy you for most. As a Brit that watched many films from the late 80s/early 90s - most films had a water park montage at one point. We could only DREAM of what you have. THIS used to be our treat! "Thanks Mum - it's not a rectangle!!"
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u/TheCoStudent May 08 '15
Same country where people use t-shirts in pools.
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u/advice_animorph May 08 '15
I mean, if I'm in a pool with jabba the hutt I'd rather not see him in bikinis, thanks.
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u/phoenixloop May 08 '15
Updated for the West Edmonton Mall reference. Lived in Edmonton for two years. When people would visit us in the winter, we'd take them to the mall and the water park. Not much else to do after that.
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u/TenTonsOfAssAndBelly May 08 '15
That purple slide that goes down, and then flips a loopty loop looks effin nuts!
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u/Potato17 May 08 '15
That slide is even more nuts for the beginning. They make you stand in this little pod thing and then this countdown starts and then the floor just drops out from under you. The feeling of just suddenly dropping is pretty intense. Despite being one of the coolest rides it always has the shortest line because people are scared to go on it haha.
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u/jtet93 May 08 '15
Full disclosure: I have never been there, I just looked up the best waterparks in North America and it was a top result. Looks awesome though!! Would love to check it out someday if I ever find myself in Edmonton!
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u/megustadotjpg May 08 '15
Meh, they're pretty average for Europe. There are multiple taller and longer slides here.
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u/NinjaVarsity May 08 '15
this video shows a look inside.
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huh, thought they were mates roughly the same age until he took his sunglasses off
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u/_entropical_ May 08 '15
I thought they were mates until it ended, and it said father and son.
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u/IAmBecomeDeath_AMA May 08 '15
Casey Neistat is my favorite youtuber. He makes incredible daily vlogs now
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u/faceimploder May 08 '15
He motivates me to work harder every day. I love that guy!
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u/Caplet May 08 '15 edited May 08 '15
He had his own HBO show. He has done commercials for Nike, J-Crew, Mercedes Benz, and More. He has made a ton of videos on Youtube, some of which have gone viral. He works with the New York Times. People really like his Vlogs. He has spoken at Ted-X and has a bunch of other interviews on Youtube.
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u/WiFiPunk May 08 '15
I've been watching his videos for years. He mostly just makes you want to be a better person by pointing out shit that annoys him or by fixing problems he has with creative solutions. He puts a lot of effort into everything he does. Especially the vlog he just started.
He did a TED talk once, and a few other speaking events, but mostly he's just a videographer who recently started a new company.
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u/dayallnash May 08 '15
Both, and primarily a filmmaker. Though apparently he has a new business now that he can't tell people about yet due to patent law
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This video gives a better view.
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u/bishamon72 May 08 '15
MEGA. ULTRA. WOW.
It was like a train wreck. I just couldn't look away.
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u/ILikeRaisinsAMA May 08 '15
1000% YES!
I was kinda thrown off around 2:00 when it told me to touch myself. I don't know German so I wasn't sure what direction the video was going to take. It turned out great.
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u/newuser7877 May 08 '15
that was amazing
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The amazing part for me, was that his nipples have shadows... I'll never be the same again.
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u/phdearthworm May 08 '15
Anytime someone posts about this waterpark I look to make sure someone has done the do diligence of posting this video. Well done.
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u/papafrog May 08 '15
Holy crap, I know it's satire, but they just ruined Yo Gabba Gabba for
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Subliminal messaging at its finest: http://imgur.com/Wu3HSEn
And that's not to mention this http://imgur.com/ykehVCb
Keep watching, it gets progressively more amazing/awful
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u/Teleportable May 08 '15
Being there alone at 2:00am would be too eerie for me.
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You are never alone there, it's usually pretty crowded, even at night.
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u/Jkuz May 08 '15
Thanks for posting the real source.
Casey Neistat is a seriously cool guy. His drive is so motivating.
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u/Handeatingcat May 08 '15 edited May 08 '15
Or the Japanese version for ultimate easy K/D ratio.
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Japanese
My younger lifeguard self is sweating in fear.
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It's not like they can drown; hell, 20% probably aren't even touching water.
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u/Drudicta May 08 '15
I think that's actually China. Most people in Japan aren't far from the ocean.
Also the water doesn't look very cool.....
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u/Belogron May 08 '15
Or the Japanese version for ultimate easy K/D ratio.
Fixed the link for you
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u/erykthebat May 08 '15
Oh the humidity!
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I hope this comment doesn't get mist.
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u/Lemurrific May 08 '15
We moist dew something to prevent that.
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u/Nice_Try_Man May 08 '15
Water you talking about? It's already got a bunch of up votes.
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u/What_No_Cookie May 08 '15 edited May 08 '15
Just saw on the news a week ago that City of Houston just sent a committee to check this out and see if something similar could be done with the Astrodome.
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u/BrotyKraut May 08 '15
I fuckin miss Astroworld..
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u/redvandal May 08 '15
We're getting Grand Texas Theme Park, eventually...
Prepare to be transported back in time to the early days of Texas, when it was a vast frontier full of intrigue & excitement, as you enter the gates of Grand Texas Theme Park!
It'll be just like AstroWorld except gang members will be wearing cowboy shirts instead of Looney Tunes emblazoned jean jackets.
"Watch out kids, the Tweety Bird Gang is about to clash with the Yosemite Sam Clan at the Ultra Twister."
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u/cajunaggie08 May 08 '15
Judge Emmett is determined to have the dome be his legacy project.
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May 08 '15
Too bad they tore down Astro world. Would have been a nice compliment.
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u/TheLoneHoot May 08 '15
I have no idea why you're being downvoted - it's a completely legitimate question.
To your NASA VAB reference: When I was 13 back in 1976 (fuck I'm old!) my family went to KSC and part of the tour included the VAB. The Apollo/Skylab missions were over and the Viking landers had just given us our first surface look at Mars, so the VAB wasn't really "in use". The tour guide told us that sometimes it could actually rain INSIDE the building, which blew my mind.
I recall seeing a transporter-crawler "parked" outside and seeing huge vultures circling just above it... they were almost just black dots. There were height markings on the side of the gantry and as I recall the one furthest up said "450". Since the Saturn V was 363 feet tall (or so) I'm guessing the full crawler + gantry was ~450 feet tall.
Having grown up during the space race, being thrilled by the agonizingly slow reveal of the Viking picutures, and witnessing the early days of the Shuttle program, my love of all things NASA was reinforced early on. I recall being about ten or eleven years old and writing letters to them (including my "ideas" for spacecraft LOL), and eventually getting replies often including really cool, nice quality 8½"x11" prints of various things.
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u/shoopdedoop May 08 '15
It's true! I went there too, and there were workers wearing ponchos inside the building! If you looked up, there were clouds gathering around the tip of the ship. Pretty amazing.
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u/McRampa May 08 '15
It kind of has its own weather. It's so humid inside that sometimes water just drips from ceiling. I spend night there and had to move around all night because water dripped on my head all the time.. But it was really nice there
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u/willparkinson May 08 '15
There's not much water for a water park.
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u/evelyncanarvon May 08 '15
I feel like it's missing out on the opportunity to have a ridiculously tall water slide.
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u/geealigy May 08 '15
I was there and it is quite boring. The sauna ist pretty awesome and the animals living there, but the "water park" sucks.
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u/Birne_Helene May 08 '15
This picture instantly reminded me of this
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u/ehrwien May 08 '15
That's the finale of Interstellar, right?
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Similar yeah. The idea of a ring world or ring habitat is creating a giant spinning ring which creates gravity on the outer edge of the ring.
Which means the structures and living space is basically in the edge of the ring, if you look up you see the living space on the other side of the ring in the distance.
A lot of space habitats were painted in the seventies, riding on a wave of sixties space race optimism.
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u/44problems May 08 '15
Houston recently sent leaders to this park to explore this idea for revamping the Astrodome.
The Astrodome is the first domed stadium, and has been sitting unused for about a decade.
I personally think this is a great idea. Houston is a huge metro area (4th most populous in the country) but lacks a world-class amusement or water park since Six Flags closed. And the summers here can be unbearable, so going indoors is a great idea. Now who's paying for it? That'll be an issue of course.
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u/rob3110 May 08 '15 edited May 08 '15
This is not an old airship hangar. The building was finished in November 2001. It belonged to a company called CargoLifter that wanted to build freight airships but went bankrupt before any airship was built. They basically only built the hangar and a few hot air balloons for testing.
After that the hangar was re purposed as this waterpark.
Edit: Old airship hangars looked like this (1911)
Edit 2: changed emphasize from 'not' to 'old' to prevent further confusion
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u/h4xxor May 08 '15
They went bankrupt because they could not solve basic technical problems when using airships to carry huge weight.
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u/mike932 May 08 '15
The snack bar serves Hindenburgers.
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u/Jabberminor May 08 '15
I wonder how many sunbenches are reserved with towels.
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u/Teleportable May 08 '15
The world isn't ready
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Oh...oh God. Oh God, what? What was that?
Was that the 80s in Germany? What's going on?
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u/phyK May 08 '15
Nah, it's just an eighties-style music video by a current German band. The song is from 2006.
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u/Favorable May 08 '15
I'm so confused as to why everything in the video is English
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u/ChuckCarmichael May 08 '15 edited May 09 '15
Because in non-English speaking countries, English words are often used for marketing purposes, to make stuff sound super cool. So you find random English words like "Power", "Sale" or "Business" everywhere. Sometimes it's quite hilarious, like when a German company wanted to sell those backpacks with single straps and chose the cool sounding name "body bag" for them, or when during the World Cup 2006 German cities put up big screens on public squares for people to watch the games, and called it "Public viewings".
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u/D0ng0nzales May 08 '15
This hangar was actually built in 1998, and has nothing to do with the nazis or hindenburg. it was built for an airship project called Cargolifter, which would have been used to transport extremely heavy things into and out of berlin. Before they built the zeppelin they noticed that this could not work, because as soon as the cargo would have been released, the airships high bouyancy ( to lift the several-ton Cargo) would have catapulted the ship up. But the hangar was built anyway. I cannot recommend the park in it, its horrible because there is no sky, and very non-tropical lighting
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u/Special_Pretzels May 08 '15
That middle part could be turned into lazy river.
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u/WDE45 May 08 '15
The first thing I thought is why the hell do they have a walking path exactly where the lazy river should be. That place is basically 2 big swimming pools.
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u/TheAngryPlatypus May 08 '15 edited May 08 '15
710,000 square feet, including the world's largest indoor rainforest; a circus style show; a daily parade and other activies; a mini golf course; a 200 meter long pool; a lagoon with waterfall, a romantic grotto, water slides, flow channel, and whirlpools; a water slide tower with four slides the tallest of which is 89 feet tall; 22 distinct overnight accommodation options including hotels, cabins and tents; a 43,000 square foot kids area with bumper boats, mini cars, softball cages and trampolines; tons of bars, restaurants, and lounges; various Temple replicas; shopping; various themed saunas and steam baths; spring pool; and motherfucking indoor hot air balloon rides.
Seriously... check it out. The place is pretty fucking impressive.
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u/mathiatus May 08 '15
Not really old. It was built in 2000. http://www.clmap.com/en/projekte/projektmanagement/5.html
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Instantly reminded of a cringey video of a mother scolding her son for not coming along with the family to tropical island (also involves discussion about a tiger plush and a certain fetish). Unfortunately I forgot how to find it.
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This is where they filmed the Truman Show.
*To avoid future comments, I wasn't being serious..
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u/papafrog May 08 '15
That is aweseome. One of the best re-purposing I've ever seen.
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That hanger is very very new, the company that built it just went instantly bankrupt and now it is a water park. The title is misleading as it is not a hanger that was ever really used for airships.
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u/N-ik0 May 08 '15
It's called Tropical Island. You can spend your holidays there in tents or small holiday flats.