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Title: A Rollercoaster Designed to Kill Humanely
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URL Source: http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1vdx3 ... o-Kill-Humanely%253Fpage%253D4
Published: Apr 20, 2011
Author: Unknown
Post Date: 2011-05-15 18:10:52 by Sebastian
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Views: 3367
Comments: 3
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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#1. To: Sebastian (#0)
weird just weird.
I vote we put all the nitwits on my "piss off" list on the ride. They can stand in as crash-test dummies.
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#2. To: A K A Stone (#1)
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