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To: rwfromkansas
Wouldn't it be almost lethal to fly in something going that fast?

Guys went Mach 6+, almost Mach 7 in the X-15, and astronauts go faster to achieve escape velocity. What can harm a person is not speed per se, but sudden acceleration or deceleration. For instance, SpaceShipOne and some tank cannon projectiles both do between Mach 3 and Mach 4. Accelerating like SpaceShipOne doesn't harm people. Accelerating like a tank round would turn people to jelly!

Absent a sudden onset, there's no physiological limitation to how fast you can go (inside something, obviously).

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

101 posted on 11/17/2004 5:11:47 PM PST by Criminal Number 18F
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To: Criminal Number 18F

Interesting.


102 posted on 11/17/2004 6:23:03 PM PST by rwfromkansas ("War is an ugly thing, but...the...feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse." --J.S. Mill)
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