An Animated Gif Thread

Damn, I wish I had that much cabinet space!

My guess is Russian amusement park.

Fuck that.

Looks like a fucking awesome trebuchet to me!

I wonder what's the G-force on that?

Who cares? You could land in a bed of bunnies and cotton 7 feet deep and it'd still kill you.

Seriously though, what the hell is it?

I dunno, but it looks like a trebuchet. If it's actually an amusement park "ride," then fuck that.

It appears to be some sort of medieval suicide booth.

There it is. The greatest security cam footage in history.

I read a science fiction book once where there was a suicide booth which put you in a large centrifuge and spun you until the G-Force was so powerful that the blood in your body couldn't overcome it and you had a stroke. I can't remember which book that was.

That seems like a pretty unpleasant way to take yourself out intentionally.

Not if you ride it like this.

I think there's fairly good science behind it. Lots of people have passed out from excess G-forces and they don't describe it as pain, as such. And once you pass out I would presume that the force providing for death aren't noticeable. But then again, anyone who has died from it can't tell us. (Because they're dead.)

See, it looks like a super-fun way to commit suicide to me. I'd love for my last word to be "Wheee!!!!!".

Some design student made/designed a rollercoaster of death, with that exact intention. I think it was where I read about the g-force death.

The Euthanasia Coaster, yeah.

Goats are assholes.

Yeah that was it. Not science fiction, but futurism!

totally worth watching the whole thing

Heh "gravity is a mistake".

Ah. So they're all tongue in cheek fictional CGI rides. That makes more sense.

NWS.

Yeah his name is shift6 and he played a whoooooooole lot of Roller Coaster Tycoon.

HELLO THERE

Heh - that gif was exactly in sync with my ticking watch when I saw it.