What would the pay be for the park employees who clear the bodies?
I can hardly think of worse ways to die, having all the time in the world to think it through on the way up listening to the “click-clack-click-clack” of the train on the rails, and then going over the falls… Maybe drowning and burning but that’s about what I can come up with.
Taking a ride on the sui-slide would be the last thing on my bucket list
Like this one?
Every master piece has its cheap knock off
No, that’s the original!
“Some early riders came back with lacerations to their bodies, whose cause was later determined to be teeth that had been knocked out of riders’ mouths and become lodged in the interior walls.”
A former Navy physician found that riders were experiencing as much as nine Gs of acceleration as they went through the loop.
v2 / r is a bitch.
Do you know which sponsor definitely won’t kill you in their slides? Raytheon.
This is like reading about early oval racetracks in the US, which were made out of wooden boards: the drivers were getting splinters flying in their faces, aside from a host of other problems.
It’s only a model.
I was relating to the action park slide which was very real.
Capitalism in a nutshell.
You get to choose from one million different equally sucky options.
Couldn’t really be higher on the list now could it?
This is such wonderful dry British humor.
Well if you want a low income option you could always just go to Action Park!
I too played rollercoaster tycoon where every coaster was a euthanasia coaster!
Oh my god. It was an instruction manual!
Now this is whimsy.
And surprisingly effective!
John Allen, who had been the president of the Philadelphia Toboggan Company, inspired Urbonas with his description of the “ultimate” roller coaster as one that “sends out 24 people and they all come back dead”.[4]
I mean who better to employ to fashion a suicide rollercoaster than a man who has spent his life preventing rollercoaster casualties?
book spoilers ish
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu talks about this in one of the chapters. A disease is killing children so an amusement park was created for children to enjoy a roller coaster ride instead of dying in a hospital bed.
I sobbed through the end of that.
Ooh it’s got great reviews. I will check this one out, thanks!
It is a good book but I found it extremely depressing.
I read The Road by Cormac McCarthy when I was like 22 and it sent me into a decade long depression I never really recovered from.
So I think I’ll pass. Good tip tho.
Read some reviews first. It’s a lot more hopeful and pleasant than The Road.
Hey even The Road ended on a happy note.
After all that hardship and horror, the poor starving child was rescued and lived happily ever after with a family on a boat and they just sailed the white blue oceans as free as the sun.
My interpretation is that McCarthy was saying, yeah, this will happen, this has happened, and here’s your happy ending so you don’t slit your wrists after reading this.
The End.
Yeah 100%. I had to space it out between other reads.
The ride’s seven inversions would inflict 10 g (g-force) on its passengers for 60 seconds, causing g-force related symptoms starting with greyout through tunnel vision to syncope, and eventually g-LOC (g-force induced loss of consciousness) and death.
According to the National Institutes of Health, the human brain can survive without oxygen for up to four or five minutes. During this time, the brain is not capable of functioning at anything near its normal capacity. Extensive and irreversible brain damage may occur through cell death if oxygen levels are not restored quickly enough after this period.
What am I missing?
G-force taking the blood out of the brain.
If a person suddenly stops breathing there is still oxygen in their blood that their brain can utilize. However with strong g-forces the blood can be displaced out of the brain entirely. Think about where the feet will be on the coaster and where the blood would be pushed to.
Presumably they would be clinically dead at the end of the ride, that is they would have stopped breathing and their heart would have stopped beating. It may still be possible to revive someone with prompt medical attention, but for the job to be finished all you’d have to do at that point is nothing.
With my luck they’d have to Mitch McConnell me up for a second ride
Oh hey, the Mrs. Davis death machine actually has science behind it
Highly inefficient killing machine. It’s like they’re trying to avoid killing its passengers but failing. This failed as an euthanasia machine at the planning stage.
It’s just physics people.
Enough Gs and your brain and internal organs smush into mush, and I’m not talking Warren Gs.
I mean, it would work fine without all the loops. Just let the drop continue to the ground without leveling off.
How is there not a movie about this thing lol
I don’t know about that, but watch “The Centrifuge Brain Project” on YouTube. It’s something.
Holy shit how is this video 13 years old
Mrs. Davis
There is a short film on YouTube IIRC, saw it years ago but forget the name of it 😶
all passengers are given the choice to exit the train if they wish to do so. If they do not, they will have some time to say their last words.
All passengers are required to press a button to continue the ride, which then takes the cars down a 500 m (1,600 ft) drop, propelling the train at speeds up to 360 kilometres per hour
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Subsequent inversions or a second run of the rollercoaster would serve as insurance against unintentional survival of more robust passengers…
That’s contradictory
More like “so you wouldn’t press a death button to end up alive and likely disabled”
This is a great idea, as long as everyone agrees to wearing really effective adult diapers. Otherwise it will be a water ride.
The diaper is optional, but the cleanup crew would really appreciate if you wore it
You could easily make this a water ride.
