Cheaper way to space!? A supergun.

George William Herbert wrote:
garfangle wrote:
(George William Herbert) wrote:
The condition of the human body exposed to nearly 5,300 Gs for
a seventh of a second is "red goo on back wall of space capsule".

My bad...though couldn't we develop some anti-G shield?
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There are things that can be done to increase human G-tolerance.
Lying flat gets you to 20+ transient Gs without serious problems,
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As others have pointed out, anything mechanical that you can
harden a lot (artillery shells take tens of thousands or 100,000 Gs)
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People... should ride gentler things.

If cryogenics is finally gotten working, then that incidentally solves
that problem, at least a bit.
And it's at least not forbidden by the current laws of physics that
we know, just lots and lots of apparently insoluble chemistry and biology
problems.

I'd imagine a astronicle could cope with at least a thousand G.

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