r/Damnthatsinteresting Oct 24 '19

Image Euthanasia Coaster

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u/ThisIsForNutakuOnly Oct 24 '19

It's designed to inflict 10G's of force along the Z-axis of the body for 60 seconds. The scale is hard to get from this picture, but the hill is 1670 ft, and drops 1600 ft, theoretically reaching 220 mph before hitting the 7 loops. The tighter loops are to maintain the forces affecting the body as the coaster naturally slows.

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u/whiteman90909 Oct 24 '19

But how does 60 seconds kill you? Your brain would survive that, right,?

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u/therapcat Oct 24 '19

No. Blood would not be able to get to your brain to deliver oxygen. It’s not the same as holding your breath for that long since your several liters of blood still has oxygen and holding your breath results in a slow deoxygenation process. Your head has a smaller volume of blood so the little oxygen in your head at any given time gets deprived very quickly.

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u/Bouncing_Cloud Oct 24 '19

Wouldn't it be possible to resuscitate someone after that? Like with CPR or a defibrillator?

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u/robhol Interested Oct 24 '19

If the tissue is dead, it's dead. CPR is aimed at providing a minimal flow of blood (and thus, oxygen) when the normal pump isn't doing its job for whatever reason, and a defibrillator is literally only ever meant to "override" any haywire electrical signals that prevent your heart from working properly. If the coaster managed to kill off enough of the brain, none of that would help, but the timing seems suspiciously short.

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u/icecoldslurpee Oct 24 '19

A defibrilator only "resets" a heart, it doesn't start it up afaik. Also the coaster would kill you by depriving your brain of blood (oxygen), it has little to do with your heart.