At this point, wouldn’t a horseshoe shaped contraption with a swinging blade be more efficient since it requires less material for the blade?
Sure, but you have to have enough momentum to cut through 15 necks consecutively. Spines do provide a considerable amount of resistance that must be accounted for.
Good thing a lot of billionaires are spineless.
And if it didn’t work the first time one can always try again.
That’s the spirit, we aren’t quitters.
Either big springs or big weights would work.
How about a circular design, with a spinniing blade? If timed correctly, individuals could be removed and replaced within time for the blade to come around again, thus creating a near infinite stream of headless billionaires.
I am assuming the spinning blade would have to be powered by electricity. Makes it unreliable in the inevitable blackouts that helped lead up to the mass revolts. I can’t imagine we would execute the billionaires without hitting a breaking point first. I imagine a lack of electricity will hit before mass starvation.
Use springs or weights for your spinning blade.
I would like to see the schematics for whatever ingenious idea may have. It would be a good follow up post.
I’m away from my solidworks right now, but I only had the idea because of a TV show I watched a few episodes of where a 5-person guillotine was used. It had a long arm with a blade that would swing in an arc, 90 degrees or so in total. They would set the machine by cranking the arm up into position. It wasn’t ever shown if it was weights or springs, but the show was set in a sort of Victorian Era fantasy world. “Carnival Row” I think was the name of the show. There were faries and satyr and some humans that desperately needed to be guillotined in the town square.
Well now you have to build it. It could come in use some day.
I’d suggest adding a gutter to guide all heads to a large bucket, for easier disposal. And a second row of restraints above the first one.
I saw a TV show where a guillotine was built with a blade that swung in an arc so that multiple people could be executed at once. As an added bonus there were nice ratcheting noises as the blade was cranked into position.
The right side of the blade is too narrow.
We’ll have to sort them by neck thickness.
There’s a beautiful song about this.
Would one head be fully severed before the next neck meets the blade? I’m worried the increased resistance would stop the blade.
Even more efficient, we could Ghost Ship them.
