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		samplatt on Aug 23, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Deep Can Humans Go? Armchair speculation from an avid scifi reader... I wouldn't be surprised if at 30 g's we start to see mass destruction of capillaries as blood pools in loops and kinks and then bursts. Which is extra bad when some of those are inside your brain.

nick3443 on Aug 23, 2024 [–]

Colonel Stapp did short duration 46g in 1954 and survived.

hermitcrab on Aug 23, 2024 | [–]

Is that the time on the rocket sled when his eyeballs filled with blood? Nasty. He was very brave/totally crazy.

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