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A Rollercoaster Designed to Kill Humanely
« on: January 21, 2013, 11:46:22 AM »
A Rollercoaster Designed to Kill Humanely

By Architecture / IO, 20 Apr 2011
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It’s a ride definitely not for the faint-hearted—a PhD candidate in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art has designed a hypothetical rollercoaster meant to kill.

Julijonas Urbonas created his coaster as a hypothetical euthanasia machine; it will, he claims, take lives as humanely and euphorically as possible.

“Riding the coaster’s track, the rider is subjected to a series of intensive motion elements that induce various unique experiences: from euphoria to thrill, and from tunnel vision to loss of consciousness and, eventually, death,” he wrote on his website.

The 500-meter structure is designed to kill its rider from cerebral hypoxia, or a lack of oxygen supply to the brain.

Urbonas said he was inspired to create the rollercoaster by a quote from John Allen, former president of the Philadelphia Toboggan Company: “The ultimate rollercoaster is built when you send out 24 people and they all come back dead. This could be done, you know.”



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Re: A Rollercoaster Designed to Kill Humanely
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2013, 12:34:18 PM »
It doesn't look long enough

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Re: A Rollercoaster Designed to Kill Humanely
« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2013, 12:37:11 PM »
At least 5 minutes to accomplish death from hypoxia, not just brain damage.  500 meters of track over 5 minutes is 100 m/minute or 3 mph.  You can't get the proper g forces to create hypoxia at walking speed.

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Re: A Rollercoaster Designed to Kill Humanely
« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2013, 01:05:07 PM »
What a great way to go dizzy and vomiting on yourself
"Eat it up.  Wear it out.  Make it do or do without." 

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Re: A Rollercoaster Designed to Kill Humanely
« Reply #4 on: January 21, 2013, 01:12:06 PM »
I hate rollercoasters. :P

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Re: A Rollercoaster Designed to Kill Humanely
« Reply #5 on: January 21, 2013, 01:33:58 PM »
It doesn't look long enough
that's what she said
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Re: A Rollercoaster Designed to Kill Humanely
« Reply #6 on: January 21, 2013, 01:53:16 PM »
a lot of thought went into it

but it would be easier to just take out the seatbelts on another rollercoaster!
blah blah blah

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Re: A Rollercoaster Designed to Kill Humanely
« Reply #7 on: January 21, 2013, 02:21:20 PM »
It doesn't look long enough
that's what she said

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Re: A Rollercoaster Designed to Kill Humanely
« Reply #8 on: January 21, 2013, 05:41:55 PM »
At least 5 minutes to accomplish death from hypoxia, not just brain damage.  500 meters of track over 5 minutes is 100 m/minute or 3 mph.  You can't get the proper g forces to create hypoxia at walking speed.

Does it mean 500m of track or 500m high?
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Re: A Rollercoaster Designed to Kill Humanely
« Reply #9 on: January 22, 2013, 02:40:51 AM »
I'm like Super Bacteria that'll survive anything.

Bring it on!

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Re: A Rollercoaster Designed to Kill Humanely
« Reply #10 on: January 22, 2013, 06:46:57 AM »
I'm like Super Bacteria that'll survive anything.

Bring it on!
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Re: A Rollercoaster Designed to Kill Humanely
« Reply #11 on: January 22, 2013, 08:53:08 AM »
Speaking of surviving-everything.
I've been on an airplane, where the landing gear suddenly would not respond, and we had to circle for 2 hours to dump fuel (so to avoid a fireball crashlanding. Nice to know! We explained it to an old lady next to us, sort of to share our death-angst with her!)
It then got fixed. Yay!
And we landed :)

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Re: A Rollercoaster Designed to Kill Humanely
« Reply #12 on: January 22, 2013, 10:06:29 AM »
At least 5 minutes to accomplish death from hypoxia, not just brain damage.  500 meters of track over 5 minutes is 100 m/minute or 3 mph.  You can't get the proper g forces to create hypoxia at walking speed.

Does it mean 500m of track or 500m high?

The height of the model is about equal to the total length so I'm not sure it matters.  Even if it was 5,000m you are still dealing with 30 MPH which I still wouldn't think is enough.

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Re: A Rollercoaster Designed to Kill Humanely
« Reply #13 on: January 22, 2013, 07:11:22 PM »
OK, fine, put a sharp blade at the end of it; turn it into a guillotine.  Problem solved.
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Re: A Rollercoaster Designed to Kill Humanely
« Reply #14 on: January 23, 2013, 07:21:54 AM »