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Apr 9 2013 02:56pm
"The Euthanasia Coaster is an art concept for a steel roller coaster designed to kill its passengers.[1] In 2010, it was designed and made into a scale model by Julijonas Urbonas, a PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art in London. Urbonas, who has worked at an amusement park, stated that the goal of his concept roller coaster is to take lives "with elegance and euphoria".[2] As for practical applications of his design, Urbonas mentioned "euthanasia" or "execution".[3] John Allen, who served as president of the Philadelphia Toboggan Company, inspired Urbonas with his description of the ideal roller coaster as one that "sends out 24 people and they all come back dead".[4] As a hypothetical means of euthanasia, the design led to concern from anti-euthanasia association Care Not Killing.[5]"

"The design begins with a steep-angled lift to the 510-metre (1,670 ft) (0.317 mile) top, which would take two minutes for the 24-passenger train to reach.[1] From there, a 500-metre (1,600 ft) drop would take the train to 360 kilometres per hour (220 mph), close to its terminal velocity, before flattening out and speeding into the first of its seven slightly clothoid inversions.[3] Each inversion would have a smaller diameter than the one before in order to maintain 10 g to passengers while the train loses speed. After a sharp right-hand turn the train would enter a straight, where unloading of corpses and loading of new passengers could take place.[3]"

"The Euthanasia Coaster would kill its passengers through prolonged cerebral hypoxia, or insufficient supply of oxygen to the brain.[1] The ride's seven inversions would inflict 10 g on its passengers for 60 seconds – causing g-force related symptoms starting with gray out through tunnel vision to black out and eventually g-LOC (g-force induced loss of consciousness).[3] Depending on the tolerance of an individual passenger to g-forces, the first or second inversion would cause cerebral anoxia, rendering the passengers brain dead.[citation needed] Subsequent inversions would serve as insurance against unintentional survival of particularly robust passengers.[3]"



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Apr 9 2013 03:06pm
probably a lot cheaper to just expose someone to 100% nitrogen gas, although that wouldn't be near as cool as the roller coaster.

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Apr 9 2013 04:16pm
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probably a lot cheaper to just expose someone to 100% nitrogen gas, although that wouldn't be near as cool as the roller coaster.


It is intriguing, which is why I posted it.
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Apr 9 2013 04:18pm
I wonder if you could force a state to allow this as Capitol Punishment..?

It looks like a more interesting way to go down than getting plugged into the power grid.
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Apr 9 2013 04:19pm
Wonder what they'll do to someone that survives.
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Apr 10 2013 03:33am
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Wonder what they'll do to someone that survives.


They would be given a new ride for free, of course
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