Will spinning around too much kill you?

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Ok, I’m sure some “researcher” subjected himself to 2G for 24 hours…but I’d like to know “why?”

Basic physics…v=at (at least until we hit relativistic levels).
v=2 x 9.8m/s (1G) x 60 (seconds) x 60 (minutes) x 24 (hours) = 1,693,0440 m/s…still only 0.006 light speed, but clipping along.

In one day at this acceleration, you would travel 74.6 million Km s=(at^2)/2…was he planning on making the trip to Mars in a day?

Personally I’d slow down and smell the coffee at 1G and take the extra day.

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The column in question is Will spinning around too much kill you?

(It’s on the front page now, but threads are forever.)

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Don’t forget that you would only accelerate for half the distance to Mars; you’d spend the rest of the trip decelerating. =)
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