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Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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Look up euthanasia coaster. This was a design made to kill the riders.
t’s a physics joke about dangerous g-forces in circular motion. In roller coaster design, you need careful calculations because the g-forces experienced in loops can be extremely dangerous or fatal if not properly engineered.
The joke is that Sonic’s saying “piece of cake” but the path he’s about to take would subject him to potentially lethal g-forces due to the tight, repeated loops getting progressively smaller. In real roller coaster design, loops are carefully engineered with specific shapes (like clothoid loops rather than perfect circles) and sizes to keep g-forces at safe levels for human passengers.
The smaller a loop gets while maintaining the same entry speed, the more intense the g-forces become. Those diminishing loops would create increasingly dangerous g-forces that would be very much not a “piece of cake” for anyone attempting to traverse them!
This is a reference to a [euthanasia coaster](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia_Coaster) which was designed to kill its riders by constantly subjecting them to high G forces.
Everyone here has something smart to say. Meanwhile, my caveman brain said “Sonic Screwdriver”.
According to physics he will get crushed by G force
Someone designed but didn’t build a “Euthanasia Coaster.” supposedly, it would kill any rider
Doesn’t this comic imply he’s already gone through the loops since he’s facing the opposite direction?
This coaster is designed to maintain G forces so high then any passengers on board will die due to a lack of blood in the brain
The coaster track is called the euthanasia coaster. Riders are subjected to the equivalent of 10 times earth’s gravity over the course of 60 seconds, pulling the blood from their brain and killing them. The loops decrease in size to maintain that stable g-force as the coaster naturally decelerates. The intent is to kill the rider “with elegance and euphoria” according to the designer.
That’s a suislide
Simple, he would probably be dead after the finished the loops. This rollercoaster was designed to kill people by its G-force and the loops.
Suislide
I’ll see myself out.
Since everyone already explained this one, I’m just going to throw my hat in the ring and say Sonic would survive this even though it’s designed to kill people.
I mean c’mon…. It’s Sonic…. He can break the sound barrier just by running
Oh wow. A Euthanasia coaster. I uh…thought it was one of those novelty silly straws circa ‘96 or 97. Sonic was mounted on through the feet and there was an exaggerated loop for you to slide him around on. It’s probably the coaster though.
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Something like but not quite this. The “joke” is that at the end of the straw he would hit the liquid. In early Sonic games hitting liquid was usually fatal.
Death coaster. Supposedly in theory it would pull enough g forces for long enough the average person would die.
If the loops get smaller the force applied to the brain against the skull gets larger.
Sonic has a pair of soap shoes. That brings me back
It’s a dumb joke about a death coaster but Sonic has power what would keep him from dying
Sonic clearly didn’t die because as illustrated he’s facing the way as if he just conquered the death loop. Unless he plans on doing the feat backwards to which yes he would indeed die.
this design is very human
This has me dying laughing
There is a rollercoaster designed for “pulling the plug”
Would this kill Sonic if he had rings on him?
Tis a repost
https://www.reddit.com/r/ExplainTheJoke/s/snYHzaUu1F
Sonic gonna die
The dude did similar in the vacuum of space, I think he got this in the bag.
Sonic, no-
oh cmon, they show this roller coaster in physics class
To be fair, the idea of Sonic running at the speeds he claims would probably already put him up against dangerous G Forces!
It reminds me of the looping sections of the game. They look cool in the ad on TV but you don’t really have that much control over the character during those parts.
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Considering the loops he handles at the speeds he goes, you might need more loops.
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Rip in peace sonic