A Rollercoaster Designed to Kill...

[MrsSmith]

A Rollercoaster Designed to Kill Humanely

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1vdx39/www.designtaxi.com/news/34579/A-Rollercoaster-Designed-to-Kill-Humanely%253Fpage%253D4

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.”

 

[thundley4]

Build it and they will come.  Offer DUmmies free rides, we know they never pass up free things.

[Gina]

Well, probably a lot cheaper than lethal injection  

[compaqxp]

Well, probably a lot cheaper than lethal injection  

And much more efficient too! Why kill one person at a time when you can take out 20+?

[thelaughingman]

I think that idiot should volunteer to be the first rider.