Around ‘99/2000, word got out around Chicagoland that Six Flag Great America was about to open a new roller coaster. The Raging Bull was going to change the way that thrill seekers experienced roller coaster with its “hyper-twister” steel construction and steep drops of over 200 vertical feet. It is an awesome coaster.
Interestingly enough, if you take a look at the profile of that roller coaster (the 2D image that simply shows elevation change) and you compare it to the graph of blood sugars from a person with diabetes, they will look shockingly similar. The difference is that when you view the roller coaster’s profile, the higher the peaks and the lower the valleys, the better. The thrill from rolling over an edge and dropping a few hundred feet in seconds is amazing, especially if you are an adrenaline junkie. With the diabetes, that’s not the case. Those rapid changes just make you feel like crap.
