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maqr
I know absolutely nothing about baby delivery, but I don't see how this could go wrong.
digamber_kamat
It is evident you know nothing about baby delivery from the latter part of your sentence.
jan_g
I am also not medically trained, but I was present during my wife's two childbirths. I am strongly opposed to described method and would not advice anyone, let alone my wife, to undergo such treatment. Why ? Because delivering a child is a process, during which many things may go wrong and there's a number of possible complications. Baby is stressed, mother is stressed, no one knows in advance, what can go wrong. The staff needs time to react and help the baby (and possibly mother) if needed. I can't see them helping anyone with a machine spinning so fast that centrifugal force ejects a baby. Actually, I can't even imagine the force needed for that, would probably kill the baby and mother.
pohl
I voted you up because my son, born six months ago, underwent periodic slowdowns in heart rate because the umbilical chord was wrapped around his neck.
Groxx
And I know absolutely nothing about air pressure, but it does seem like it'd be a lot to fight against. Given that an average baby's head has about 97 square inches (cross-section), and 1 atmosphere is about 14.7 PSI, it must take almost 1433 pounds of force to eject a baby! Given a baby's average weight of 7.5 pounds, that means you'd have to spin at 191 Gs just to overcome air pressure; you've still got to fight friction!

Mothers are amazing.

cubix
For a split second I thought it was a newly discovered da Vinci sketch.
iamdave
Why does that contraption look like a cross?
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chbarts
I thought this would be a riff on the 'machine that goes "ping"', but no, it's completely insane.

Wheel of morality, turn turn turn, tell us the lesson that we should learn.

JoeAltmaier
Invented by a man, I'm sure.
rauljara
"Inventors: George B. and Charlotte E. Blonsky of New York City."

Looks like a husband and wife made it together, actually. It's just mind boggling to me that more than one person thought this was a good idea.

digamber_kamat
And this idea is patented. Imagine what it the intelligence of person at patenting office must be.
jamesbressi
I'm sorry, but this just made me literally laugh out loud:

"The mother is then spun around and around at a speed the gynecologist has predetermined will be sufficient to dislodge the infant (or as the patent states, "the fetus"). The apparent maximum g-force for the machine is 7."

Priceless.

I want to see this in action.

digamber_kamat
Many people here are taking this invention seriously. seriously!
thecoffeeman
This obviously is a joke. I mean, a bell rings when the baby is ejected. :)
trafficlight
"The carnie gynecologist then pulls a hand brake to quickly slow the mother’s rotation so that she can safely exit the ride."

This really gave it away.

digamber_kamat
It is unfortunate that many people here actually believed this to be some kind of invention. huh..
HeyLaughingBoy
And so many of you think patents should be abolished...