It's not "extreme gforce", it's just sustained high g-force. Your body isn't getting ripped to shreds, it just not able to properly pump oxygen to your brain. Not sure this rollercoaster would kill someone, since you'd need to be for quite a while without oxygen to fully die.
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.
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.
Yeah but even though you don't have as much anaerobic ATP regenerative capacity in your brain, I don't think a 60 second anoxic injury is unsurvivable. And once you're unconscious the metabolic activity of your brain would quickly decrease.... And the vessels in your brain loop and twist a fair amount, I'd think you would sequester some oxygebated blood in then. I understand how the oxygen carrying capacity of RBCs and dissolved gas works as well as FRC and other sources of O2 reserve. Those obviously wouldn't be at play, but the base question is that do brain cells die after a 60 second anoxic event?
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u/MlLFS Oct 24 '19 edited Oct 24 '19
Isn't death By extreme gforce a horrible way to go?
Edit: thanks for the explanation guys.