Natural Selection, and Selection by Mouse
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A 35 year old woman was removed unconscious this morning, 7/11/06, from Disney World's Mission: Space ride in Orlando. That's the ride which has already killed a 49 year old woman and a four-year-old boy.
Some have defended the 15 deaths which have happened on Disney rides by saying that many who died had high blood pressure, clogged arteries, or other chronic diseases. One said, "That dead person shouldn't have been on the ride to begin with."
So, now it is in context: A person can get a Darwin award by doing something so stupid that it removes him or her from the human gene pool, improving humanity's lot.
Disney's rides are kind of performing the same service, for those too sick to ride aggressive thrill rides but who insist on doing so anyway.
That'll teach 'em.
A 35 year old woman was removed unconscious this morning, 7/11/06, from Disney World's Mission: Space ride in Orlando. That's the ride which has already killed a 49 year old woman and a four-year-old boy.
Some have defended the 15 deaths which have happened on Disney rides by saying that many who died had high blood pressure, clogged arteries, or other chronic diseases. One said, "That dead person shouldn't have been on the ride to begin with."
So, now it is in context: A person can get a Darwin award by doing something so stupid that it removes him or her from the human gene pool, improving humanity's lot.
Disney's rides are kind of performing the same service, for those too sick to ride aggressive thrill rides but who insist on doing so anyway.
That'll teach 'em.
posted by Greg Finnegan @ 1:21 PM
2 Comments:
At 6:35 PM,
Unknown said…
Gah, what does that ride do? Grab you by the neck and slam you against the walls or what?
I'm not a big amusement park ride fan, believe it or not.
At 1:14 PM,
Greg Finnegan said…
The guests are seated in a large chamber, which spins around like a centrifuge, generating 2G's (twice the force of gravity). That's to make you think you're blasting off in a rocket.
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