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  2. Rocket sled - Wikipedia

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    The sled was then accelerated according to the experiment's design requirements for data collection along a length of isolated, precisely level and straight test track. Testing ejection seat systems and technology prior to their use in experimental or operational aircraft was a common application of the rocket sled at Holloman Air Force Base .

  3. Acutuncus - Wikipedia

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    Tardigrades, which are eight-legged micro-animals, are commonly referred to as water bears or moss piglets and are found all over the world in varying extreme habitats. First discovered in 1904 and originally named Hypsibius antarcticus , Acutuncus antarcticus is the most abundant tardigrade species in Antarctica.

  4. Tardigrade - Wikipedia

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    Tardigrades (/ ˈ t ɑːr d ɪ ɡ r eɪ d z / ⓘ), [1] known colloquially as water bears or moss piglets, [2] are a phylum of eight-legged segmented micro-animals. They were first described by the German zoologist Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1773, who called them Kleiner Wasserbär ' little water bear ' .

  5. Hydroflight sports - Wikipedia

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    Moving water, river flow or strong tidal actions have posed the biggest danger to participants. When the jet ski and the floating rider move with the water, the 20+ meter long hose can hang up on underwater obstructions. This can pull the rider, and potentially the jet ski under water as the hose becomes taut.

  6. Water slide - Wikipedia

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    A water coaster is a water slide that emulates a roller coaster by providing not only descents, but also ascents. There are three different ways water coasters operate: water jets, [50] conveyor belts, [51] and linear induction motors. [52] High-powered water jets power the first type of water coaster, generically known as “Master Blasters”.

  7. Sledding - Wikipedia

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    Sledding in Yyteri, Finland. Children sledding in a park, 18 secs video. Sledding, sledging or sleighing is a winter sport typically carried out in a prone or seated position on a vehicle generically known as a sled (North American), a sledge (British), or a sleigh.

  8. WindSled - Wikipedia

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    WindSled created by explorer Ramon Larramendi, in Ice River Expedition Greenland 2017. The WindSled or Inuit WindSled is a project that has as central axis a wind vehicle, unique in the world, to travel and transport equipment through polar lands, and which has been designed by the Spanish polar explorer, Ramón Hernando de Larramendi.

  9. Tubing (recreation) - Wikipedia

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    A mother holds two children in an automobile inner tube floating on an unidentified body of water in 1916. Towed tubing behind a personal watercraft on the Mississippi River Free-floating tubers on Esopus Creek in the Catskill Mountains of New York. Tubing on water generally consists of two forms: towed and free-floating, also known as river ...