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Ian Stirling wrote:
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? ![]() snip There are things that can be done to increase human G-tolerance. Lying flat gets you to 20+ transient Gs without serious problems, snip As others have pointed out, anything mechanical that you can harden a lot (artillery shells take tens of thousands or 100,000 Gs) snip People... should ride gentler things. If cryogenics is finally gotten working, then that incidentally solves that problem, at least a bit. 'Cryonics,' not 'cryogenics.' http://ask.yahoo.com/ask/20020718.html 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. True, but.... I'd imagine a astronicle could cope with at least a thousand G. Why? There's already a signifigant problem with microcracking in the bodies of suspended cryonics patients: http://www.benbest.com/cryonics/cooling.html http://keithlynch.net/cryonet/28/92.html The hope is that nanothecnology or something similar can make the repairs in the future, but one would prefer to minimize them to begin with. Why also subject the body to accelerations that would encourage this? |
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