Julijonas Urbonas, a PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art in London, has designed a rollercoaster that will kill its riders with a series of carefully calibrated, sensitively sequenced brain-scrambling loops:
“Euthanasia Coaster” is 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. Riding the coaster’s track, the rider is subjected to a series of intensive motion elements that induce various unique experiences: from euphoria to thrill, and from tunnel vision to loss of consciousness, and, eventually, death. Thanks to the marriage of the advanced cross-disciplinary research in aeronautics, space medicine, mechanical engineering, material technologies and, of course, gravity, the fatal journey is made pleasing, elegant and meaningful.
You can see this in the Science Gallery in Dublin right now as part of their Human+ exhibition http://www.sciencegallery.com/humanplus/euthanasia-coaster
(they are a client of ours – don’t want to be shady or anything)
unadulterated nightmare
Funderland next Xmas anyone?
Let’s build one at the IFSC. Free entry to bankers and politicians. Developers get to jump the queue with their special, platinum “fast pass” badges. Free, of course.
Actually, we’ll need two.
We can build it on the site of Irish Glass Bottle. A suitably gruesome and fitting end.