[S-99]

It's quite disturbing. It's a roller coaster that maintains 10g's on it's coasterers long enough to incur brain death from prolonged cerebral hypoxia. I'm not saying this isn't a nice way to die (it beats many other ways humans kill each other and themselves in the area of being humane). Just that the idea is creepy. I am glad it will most likely remain just a concept; roller coasters are more or less entertainment and fun, you sort of destroy this when you link entertainment and fun with death and mass suicide.

You can always kill yourself for free. But, with corporate ways to kill yourself, you can potentially have a more pleasant time with the offing experience. The roller coaster is great, you die from passing out to brain death. However, i could be quite wrong, but i imagine that's easier to deal with than staring down the barrel of your own gun. This goes after the idea that it's easier to do stuff if someone is holding your hand. This also goes after that not everyone who wants to kill themselves has the balls.

[The E]

Ummm

What exactly is the point of this thread?

[Nuke]

roller coasters are more or less entertainment and fun, you sort of destroy this when you link entertainment and fun with death and mass suicide.

its people like you who make life dull and uninteresting for people like me. let the carnage ensue!

i say we need to have suicide booths. i mean seriously, had i managed to complete my suicide attempts in 2002, 2004, 2005, and 2009, i wouldn't be the contented social parasite i am today.

[The E]

I am glad it will most likely remain just a concept; roller coasters are more or less entertainment and fun, you sort of destroy this when you link entertainment and fun with death and mass suicide.

What does this say about guns then?

[Luis Dias]

I think we should do a reality show based on this.

[redsniper]

I think at 10g it wouldn't be much fun at all and would be a rough way to go. This is pretty morbid.

[Mikes]

I think we should do a reality show based on this.

Rather I would demand that every single reality show immediately starts using this with all participants riding the coaster in the first episode.


Who's with me?

[BloodEagle]

I think we should do a reality show based on this.

Rather I would demand that every single reality show immediately starts using this with all participants riding the coaster in the first episode.


Who's with me?

I'll second that.

[Flipside]

Saw this on QI, as Ross Noble said, they might as well put a crematorium at the end of it, and then the family can buy a photograph of their loved one on the biggest drop as a memorial for the day

[StarSlayer]

Time is marching on...

[Lorric]

Well this concept simply wouldn't make enough money to be viable.

You know, I thought this topic wouldn't be literal, that it would be about the rollercoaster people have to go through through the courts to be given the right to die, or the rollercoaster of emotions people might go through, but I did imagine literal scenarios before I clicked the link. The first thing I thought of was a rollercoaster that slams your head into a big rack of metal spikes.

And the second simply launches you off the top of the coaster. That would be some way to go...

[S-99]

Ummm

What exactly is the point of this thread?

[Lorric]

It seems I need to say something, you can't just put a Youtube video. So there ya go.

[BrotherBryon]

You can always kill yourself for free. But, with corporate ways to kill yourself, you can potentially have a more pleasant time with the offing experience. The roller coaster is great, you die from passing out to brain death. However, i could be quite wrong, but i imagine that's easier to deal with than staring down the barrel of your own gun. This goes after the idea that it's easier to do stuff if someone is holding your hand. This also goes after that not everyone who wants to kill themselves has the balls.

Why did I get this in my head when you mentioned "corporate ways to kill yourself"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-vRpQ0YyYo

[Mito [PL]]

10 g's? This thing could break necks of people not sitting straight. Right?
Also... smells like Hitler. 
And here comes to my mind: what if people in the carts (whatever) would hang with heads down to the ground on the beginning of the "ride" instead of sitting?

[Mika]

I don't know why, but I sort of doubt that 10Gs and one minute would be enough for everyone - the G onset rate is probably designed tough enough so that few can compensate accordingly.

The proposal is done by arts Ph. D. Color me macabre, but it's sort of fitting. Perhaps the arts students want to see whether the general morality of the population has shifted? Because I definitely would not count that out on this.

[Axem]

I want to get off Mr Bone's Wild Ride.

[Mongoose]

I don't know why, but I sort of doubt that 10Gs and one minute would be enough for everyone - the G onset rate is probably designed tough enough so that few can compensate accordingly.

Yeah, I know you generally lose consciousness around 9 Gs (probably less without a flight suit), but 10 killing you seems extremely suspect, even over the course of a minute.  I don't think your brain would suffer permanent damage from hypoxia over that duration.

[Dragon]

Certainly not enough for people who had high-G training before. You can get that in a Hornet (though probably not for this long) if you pull hard enough. 20G over two minutes would probably do it, though. People can survive 20G, but over a much shorter time (many rocket abort modes could pull that much, but over about a second).

[watsisname]

Yeah, human tolerance to gee forces depends on duration, direction of force, and varies by individual.  Very high gee forces can be survived if experienced only briefly.  We also cope with positive (downward) forces much better than negative (upward) -- AKA redout. 

The concept for this roller coaster is to subject riders ~10 positive gees for about a minute.  That's certainly enough to cause people to pass out, but not enough to guarantee death, and certainly not for all passengers. 

It would probably not be a fun ride unless you like blacking out a lot.