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Though these pictures may look like the blueprints to your standard, albeit rather extravagant, theme park thrill, this extraordinary ride certainly has a more sinister underbelly than any other ride you may have experienced. Named the ‘Euthanasia Coaster’ and described by it’s creator, Lithuanian Multidisciplinary Artist, Julijonas Urbonas,as “a hypothetical euthanasia machine in the form of a roller coaster, engineered to humanely – with elegance and euphoria – take the life of a human being” this piece of engineering genius has certainly gained it’s fair share of attention, since it’s debut showing as part of the HUMAN+ display at the Science Gallery in Dublin from April, 2011.
Prior to his design’s completion, Urbonas consulted Doctors at the Imperial College of London in order to know the exact affects of the ‘Euthanasia Coaster’ and, with terminology destined to make the Science-lovers amongst you swoon, found that the estimated results showed that a single ride on this literal ‘death trap’ would induce Cerebral Hypoxia, otherwise known as a lack of oxygen supply to the brain, with symptoms such as Greyout, Tunnel Vision, Blackout and G-LOC (G-Force induced loss of consciousness) being consequently followed by Cerebral Anoxia, in other words, leaving each passenger brain dead, due to it’s blistering 100 meters-per-second speed and 60 second exposure to 10g.
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