From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Mon Dec 13 1999 - 19:07:53 MST
Jeff Davis wrote:
> Whether for ten minutes or ten years. (After a while, they did stop
> swimming in spirals, didn't they, spike? )
Ja. The next day, one had perished and the other 11 were behaving
like ordinary fish.
> So, as I mentioned previously, I'm looking at mechanical stresses on the
> skeleton as the likely limiting factor/mode of failure.
Ja again. Bone density is more than twice that of water, so even
in an aqueous medium, there would be stresses on the body at
high acceleration. I suspect that anything over 20 G would be
quite uncomfortable underwater....
>...blastronaut were lying on a molded support...
Blastronaut! Jeff, whadda guy! {8^D spike
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