Is that the suicide rollercoaster?
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Shareni@programming.dev 2 years ago
Sega took that as a challenge
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Shareni@programming.dev 2 years ago
Yup, the euthanasia coaster
FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
I never understood why they would make the people, who had to ride this, start at the bottom. Just make the start at the top so they don’t have the most agonising roller coaster ascending of their lives. wth
Snowpix@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
I read that it would give the riders time to think things over, in case they realized they didn’t want to die. The coaster would allow for those who change their mind to get off and descend once reaching the top of the hill, I think there was supposed to be a button riders could hit to signal the operator.
button_masher@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
Huh. Never thought about it that way…
But. They have to get up somehow. So even if it was an elevator or escalator, it would still be their final ascension and potentially nerve wracking.
Can only think one way out of this… Maybe if the participant was anesthesia’d. Then one is suddenly awakened on top of this rollercoaster of doom, slowly watching the end come near. Each loop, closer to death. (That’s how I feel most days 🙃)
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years ago
Why have you all heard of this
Shareni@programming.dev 2 years ago
Internet is strange place
Snowpix@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
Wikipedia rabbit holes are a hell of a drug.
grubberfly@mander.xyz 2 years ago
The™ best™ question™, and applicable to pretty much all topics, too!
DivineDev@kbin.run 2 years ago
It's the Weierstrass function, a function that is continuous but not differentiable anywhere.
knolord@lemmy.world 2 years ago
OPs function is indeed the Weierstrass function, but the “rollercoaster” here isn’t a function at all, since there are multiple values per element, isn’t it?
grubberfly@mander.xyz 2 years ago
maybe it’d be better modeled by a 3d spiral? I’ll hit up Desmos if I remember my polar coordinates right.
DivineDev@kbin.run 2 years ago
Ah my bad, I did not see the comment had a picture attached. There's probably a mathematical way to derive the shape of the euthanasia coaster as well, but I don't know.
ramble81@lemm.ee 2 years ago
I think the original comic had the suicide coaster in the bottom panel.
sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 2 years ago
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