[FredZarguna]

Well, "minutes" is a pretty vague term. But let's say it's five minutes. At 5 minutes the average acceleration would be 3x10⁸m/s / (5min * 60 sec/min). Divide that by 9.8 m/s². I get ≅ 2600 g's.

Blackout positive acceleration for most people is 5-7 g's. Pilots, and other trained people can withstand 10-15 g's for brief periods of time. People survive ≅ 100 g's for tenths of seconds in impact crashes, but no one could survive 100 g's for seconds, let alone minutes.

[Bartholomew Roberts]

Thank you! I knew it would be something like that but couldn’t do the math!

I appreciate you writing that out!!

[Boogieman]

Well, there are ways to increase resistance to g’s. For example, if you immerse the occupants in a fluid, the buoyancy of the fluid will help offset those g’s just like it offsets the acceleration due to gravity on earth.

[Organic Panic]

Exactly what I was thinking. “Minutes” to get to Mars??? And what will the pile of goo at the back of the loading dock do once the ship reaches Mars??? Assuming the mashed pile of metal makes it. Then again Star Trek did have “inertial dampeners” to take care of those issues...