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Every downhill walk is a waterslide that might have been.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3147/
this post was submitted on 26 Sep 2025
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Why water slide? Seems a regular slide would be more practical in many ways.
Friction cooling.
i don't know if they tore it down yet, but 30 years ago there was a great park a few towns over with a long cement downhill. don't know what it was from, but if you brought cardboard you could slide down it without (usually) hurting yourself.
Pfft