Epcot Center's Mission Space ride — a centrifuge that simulates a "voyage to Mars" — has killed a second rider in a year's span (it made me sick as a dog, but the friend with me loved it and would have ridden it the rest of the day if it wasn't for my retching). The earlier victim was a four year old with a reported "undiagnosed heart condition" and the latest was a 49 year old woman from Germany with rumored "pre-existing conditions." This is a lovely, well-designed ride with an amazing physical effect, and the don't-ride-this warnings border on hysterical, so anyone who rides should be prepared for some kind of serious physical experience (unless that rider is too young to read, or not an English speaker, maybe).
(Thanks, John!)
Update: A reader writes, "Here's a site devoted to corporate communications that's tracking media coverage of the second Mission: SPACE death at Epcot."
