• Cyrus DraegurEnglish
    38•3 days ago

    honestly it would be a much more pragmatic engineering application to just … put me in a centrifuge. y’know?

  • @[email protected]
    23•3 days ago

    Actually probably one of the more humane ways to kill someone. My dad worked in aeronautical physiology for the Air Force and for the FAA, mostly working on altitude chambers and centrifuges. For a while he had a record at holloman AFB for longest time sustained at 8gs.

    Apparently a G-loc can give you a euphoria and depersonalization similar to doing acid.

    • @chonglibloodsport
      7•2 days ago

      Except for the part at the top of the huge hill when you look down and realize you’re going to die and there’s nothing you can do to stop it. The euphoria sets in later but that first bit sounds horrifying, especially for people with a fear of heights.

      • HildegardeEnglish
        4•2 days ago

        Except you can stop it. The proposal included an option to exit at the top if the hill was enough to make you change your mind.

        • @chonglibloodsport
          5•2 days ago

          Ahhh okay. That makes sense. Though I could foresee some people ending up at an impasse with this. They want to end their lives but the fear and panic take over at the top of the hill and they’re unable to go through with it. It could be very cruel for a person to be stuck in a cycle of going to the top of the hill (filling with dread each time) and then pushing the button to get out and go home.

          And then of course there’s the other issue of being up at the top of the hill, feeling overwhelming dread, working up the courage to allow the descent to begin, but then immediately regretting it and feeling terror all the way down the first big slope until the G forces begin to take effect.

          This seems like an unfixable problem with the design. No matter how you change it, there’s got to be some “point of no return” where you’re locked in and still conscious of your impending death but unable to make it stop.

  • @[email protected]English
    14•2 days ago

    With minor changes, it would be a cool Google Doodle but the design team refuses to take my suggestions seriously. The L would be a lovely crematorium chimney!

  • @Maultasche
    13•3 days ago

    I’m sure, Mr Bones would like that

  • @j4k3English
    13•3 days ago

    The Youth in Asia Urulebonas.