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  2. List of amusement rides - Wikipedia

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    Name(s) Image Type Notes 1954 Ali Baba: Pendulum ride: The Ali Baba is a type of amusement ride consisting of a stationary horizontal gondola with a 360 degree swinging pendulum. 1961 Alpine slide: A summer toboggan is an amusement or recreational ride which uses a bobsled-like sled or cart to run down a track usually built on the side of a hill.

  3. Motion - Wikipedia

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    Light moves at a speed of 299,792,458 m/s, or 299,792.458 kilometres per second (186,282.397 mi/s), in a vacuum. The speed of light in vacuum (or c {\displaystyle c} ) is also the speed of all massless particles and associated fields in a vacuum, and it is the upper limit on the speed at which energy, matter, information or causation can travel.

  4. Animal Locomotion - Wikipedia

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    Horse galloping The Horse in Motion, 24-camera rig with tripwires GIF animation of Plate 626 Gallop; thoroughbred bay mare Annie G. [1]. Animal Locomotion: An Electro-photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements is a series of scientific photographs by Eadweard Muybridge made in 1884 and 1885 at the University of Pennsylvania, to study motion in animals (including humans).

  5. Terrestrial locomotion - Wikipedia

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    Most animals move in the direction of their head. However, there are some exceptions. Crabs move sideways, and naked mole rats, which live in tight tunnels and can move backward or forward with equal facility. Crayfish can move backward much faster than they can move forward. Gait analysis is the study of gait in humans and other animals.

  6. Parallax scrolling - Wikipedia

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    Parallax scrolling is a technique in computer graphics where background images move past the camera more slowly than foreground images, creating an illusion of depth in a 2D scene of distance. [1] The technique grew out of the multiplane camera technique used in traditional animation [ 2 ] since the 1930s.

  7. Flying and gliding animals - Wikipedia

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    However, to move about under one's own power and not be overly affected by the wind requires a certain amount of size. The smallest flying vertebrates are the bee hummingbird and the bumblebee bat, both of which may weigh less than 2 grams (0.071 oz). They are thought to represent the lower size limit for endotherm flight.

  8. Rapid plant movement - Wikipedia

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    Plants that are able to rapidly move their leaves or their leaflets in response to mechanical stimulation such as touch (thigmonasty): Mimosa pudica leaves closing after being touched Timelapse video of rotating Codariocalyx motorius leaflets. Aeschynomene: Large leaf sensitive plant (Aeschynomene fluitans) Aeschynomene americana [7]

  9. Sailing stones - Wikipedia

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    It also moved the longest cumulative distance, 260 m (860 ft), and the greatest single winter movement, 201 m (659 ft). The largest stone to move was 36 kg (80 lb). Karen (stone J) is a 74-by-48-by-51-centimeter (29 by 19 by 20 in) block of dolomite and weighs an estimated 320 kg (700 lb). Karen did not move during the monitoring period.