Posted on 07/05/2005 6:01:47 PM PDT by KevinDavis
Because human tissues are viscoelastic (material properties that vary with strain rate), the response of the body to acceleration varies with duration of exposure. In general, acceleration pulses of 0.2 seconds or less are considered to be “impacts,” while acceleration durations of more than perhaps two seconds are considered to be “prolonged.”
During impact accelerations, acceleration tolerance increases as the exposure duration decreases. Consequently, the best indicator of injury potential for impact accelerations is “delta-V”, or impact-related speed change. For prolonged acceleration exposures, body fluid shifts become relatively important, and tend to dominate the deleterious effects of acceleration.
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I'm feeling out of breath and a tightness in my chest just reading this. Even though I didn't understand much of it.
Simple - prevents muscle atrophy and bone degradation.
Anyone who has ever picked up a physics text and worked through the equations contained therein knows that we on the ground experience a constant acceleration of 1 gravity.
Sorry - couldn't resist. ;-D
But I would like to be added to the SPACE PING list, please.
That's nice.
I know every time we went to the amusement park and got on one of the spinning rides, my brother usually puked.
Will it affect my spastic colon?
I don't know, however, if you have a heart condition, I advise you not to go....
I do not, but the trip would likely give me one...
[hold it, hold it, hold it, dammit...you can do it, hold it...]
You beat me to it! :)
I would also add that an acceleration of 1G will get you to Mars pretty darn quickly (even accounting for the fact that negative acceleration must begin when you're half way there).
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