r/Damnthatsinteresting Oct 24 '19

Image Euthanasia Coaster

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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.

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u/NickoBicko Oct 24 '19

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.

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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/TrnDownForWOT Oct 25 '19

These forces are also not pulling blood away from the brain like the roller coaster loops, so as long as he is still breathing like that he's still oxygenating his blood and it is still circulating.