Re: Near-Topic: G forces

Brian Bilderback wrote:

> Just checking some numbers - can anyone tell me how many G's the Human
body
> can stand, and can anyone theorize/postulate how much that number
might be
> upped with any future tech that can help us (ie how many WILL we be
able to
> withstand in the timesetting of a FT/DSII universe)?

As with all other important questions, it depends.  If you are asking if
people
can inhabit high g worlds, there is no data.  Fighter pilots are trained
to
endure short periods of about 13 g's.  Murphy coined his law after a
failed
experiment to measure effects of short duration, hard accelerations on
the
human body-- all sixteen accelerometers were fastened to the harness in
the
wrong way, but analysis of the film allowed Murphy to calculate that the
subject endured forty g's.  I apologise for not being able to cite a
source,
but fifty g's is what they aim for in frontal automotive collisions.

The one high-tech method of managing high g-forces is to encapsulate the
subject in a fluid that is breathable and the exact same density as the
subject.  Then, for any insult that does not breach the fluid filled
vessel,
the acceleration is replaced with a spike in static pressure.  As the
body is
mostly an incompressible fluid, spikes in static pressure are mostly
harmless
(this assumes that there are no voids [fluid fills sinuses and inner
ears], or
dissolved gases).

Getting a breathable fluid has already been achieved (it is even
conveniently
transparent); although, the rats die after a few days (the article did
not
mention a cause of death [my wife has a pet theory that they may not
have been