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[–] Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 10 points 9 months ago

As a species with a relatively impressive ability to engineer things, we can almost certainly find a way to make guillotines work without gravity. I propose the use of of rockets as a form of karmic irony.

[–] maquise@ttrpg.network 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Eh, just put them outside.

[–] AbsolutelyNotNick@lemmy.ca 6 points 9 months ago

Walk the plank!

[–] Klicnik@sh.itjust.works 8 points 9 months ago

A woodsplitter is basically a hydraulic guillotine.

[–] kozy138@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

Put their head into the hydraulic press from the YouTube channel. I bet Elon's head would get billions of likes overnight.

[–] DharmaCurious@startrek.website 3 points 9 months ago

Electromagnets would work nicely.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

Someone needs to invent the rocket guillotine, ASAP

[–] HenryWong327@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

Something kinda in the same vein, in the book series Red Rising, hanging people on Mars is ineffective because of the low gravity (not enough force to snap the neck), so someone has to go up and pull on the legs of the executed person to kill them.