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Ann Archy@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

TIL About the Euthanasia Coaster, a hypothetical steel roller coaster and euthanasia device designed with the sole purpose of killing its passengers

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TIL About the Euthanasia Coaster, a hypothetical steel roller coaster and euthanasia device designed with the sole purpose of killing its passengers

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Ann Archy@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago
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  • Asafum@lemmy.world
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    I too played rollercoaster tycoon where every coaster was a euthanasia coaster!

    • Ann Archy@lemmy.worldOP
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      Oh my god. It was an instruction manual!

    • Sv443@sh.itjust.works
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      If it had anything less than 10.0 nausea rating it wasn’t a real coaster

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    The newer version: https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/27/us/six-flags-rollercoaster-brain-injury-invs

    https://www.sixflags.com/magicmountain/attractions/x2-coaster

    • Ann Archy@lemmy.worldOP
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      Highly inefficient killing machine. It’s like they’re trying to avoid killing its passengers but failing. This failed as an euthanasia machine at the planning stage.

      It’s just physics people.

      Enough Gs and your brain and internal organs smush into mush, and I’m not talking Warren Gs.

      • username123@sh.itjust.works
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        Regulate

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    Honestly, I’m surprised this isn’t americas death penalty method of choice.

    • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world
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      Too humane

    • Ann Archy@lemmy.worldOP
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      It makes sense, ngl. No chemicals needed.

      • Obi@sopuli.xyz
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        Invest once, and you can euthanize hundreds of people per day for years.

    • dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world
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      Too whimsical

      • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works
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        Ah yes, the whimsey of the American death machine….

  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
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    Why would it not be easier to just seal off a room, and cycle the oxygen out until it’s pure nitrogen gas. The people would pass out quickly, experience no real physical pain and just leave them in their for 30 minutes (well more than needed)

    If there was an assisted suicide way to go, id basically just ask for the mask at the orthodontist then ease off into never worrying again.

    • cattywampas@lemmy.world
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      It would be easier, that’s why no one has ever built this roller coaster.

      • Ann Archy@lemmy.worldOP
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        That’s why no one has built this roller coaster YET!

    • Ann Archy@lemmy.worldOP
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      Now you’re thinking like an engineer!

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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      This was just an art project, not something to build in reality as it obviously is bad in every way possible

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    I can hardly think of worse ways to die, having all the time in the world to think it through on the way up listening to the “click-clack-click-clack” of the train on the rails, and then going over the falls… Maybe drowning and burning but that’s about what I can come up with.

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    How is there not a movie about this thing lol

    • HailSeitan@lemmy.world
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      Mrs. Davis

    • Sarothazrom@lemmy.world
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      There is a short film on YouTube IIRC, saw it years ago but forget the name of it 😶

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    This is a great idea, as long as everyone agrees to wearing really effective adult diapers. Otherwise it will be a water ride.

    • Ann Archy@lemmy.worldOP
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      You could easily make this a water ride.

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    This really kind of creeped me out when I first read about it.

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    I mean, it would work fine without all the loops. Just let the drop continue to the ground without leveling off.

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    This entire thread is sickening

    • horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de
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      Yeah, the world makes me feel like that too.

    • Ann Archy@lemmy.worldOP
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      Why?

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        Should I be feeling something else on the topic of real-life Saw Traps?

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          You sounded so serious. It’s an art installation! Purpose is to make us think about death sentences, and what a humane one would look like. The ones we employ in the USA are very painful, often go wrong, and require actual federal crime to perform in the case of lethal injections as in the Dream Pharma debacle to source the poison going against federal regulations.

          It speaks to the absurdity of the death penalty, and how if would really mean to be “humane” in state sponsored killings, this is a cheap, safe, 100% reliable, and fun way to die. So why not prefer this over injections, or hangings, or firing squads?

          Anyway that’s what I got from it at least.

          Edit: personally I think carbon monoxide is the answer. It’s free, simple, painless, and very effective.

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