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It is known that if the human body is immersed in certain
well-oxygenated liquids, life can be sustained. It has been
proposed (such as in old TV show "Space: 1999") that such an
environment will allow human bodies to resist significant
inertial forces, such as wild maneuverings of a space-ship.
Well,
suppose we try to take that idea to the limit? We could
imagine a canon-shell that is hollow but filled with
oxygenated liquid, in which our space traveler becomes fully
immersed (including "breathing" the liquid). We might even
pre-pressurize the liquid, to give the rider greater inertia
protection. Now we launch that shell from a giant cannon,
into orbit....
Nazi V3
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-3_cannon
As mentioned in an annotation, for anyone interested. [Vernon, Dec 22 2017]
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This is a popular theme in science fiction. |
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Unfortunately, it's only good up to a certain G-limit. Bones are denser than muscle, which is denser than brain, which is denser than fat. So, liquid suspension might enable you to survive 50G or even possibly 200G, but not the very high G associated with a space cannon |
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So, this Idea would work if we were launching from the
Moon, or maybe Mars, right? |
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I might also point out that
there are different cannon designs. If I recall right,
something the Nazis were supposedly building, the "V3",
was
a cannon that had several injection points for exploding
gasses. This would reduce the maximum pressure inside
the
cannon (and therefore also maximum G-forces), but still
allow the payload to accelerate to such a velocity as to
travel from France to Britain. |
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Yes indeed. The point I was making was just that suspension in water won't allow you to withstand arbitrarily high G. |
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That's OK if the Idea is Half-Baked. No Idea described here
necessarily needs to work under all circumstances. |
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// such as in old TV show "Space: 1999" // |
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We suggest that you may be confusing "Space:1999" with "UFO". |
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The aliens in UFO travelled in suits filled with a green liquid. Since their physiology was sufficiently similar to humans to accept xenotransplantation, it is likely that the liquid would have been one of the proposed perflourocarbon oxygen carriers under investigation for exactly the sort of application described. |
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I think you'll find, [8th], that it was actually a blue liquid that merely _looked_ green. |
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Some solutions look different by reflected or transmitted light; that's probably the case here. |
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