Re: Mars in two weeks?

From: Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Date: Sun Jan 07 2001 - 06:04:06 MST


Doug Jones wrote:

> leak through the walls of the alveoli. In tests, healthy subjects
> immersed in water were able to take about ten gees for about fifteen
> minutes before losing consciousness.

Darn, this is worse than I thought. If you're embedded in gel in
supine position in respect to the acceleration vector plus use
breathing assist ((de)compressing your thorax), do you think you
could survive 4-6 g sustainably (i.e. for days without permanent
trauma)?



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