# Will spinning around too much kill you?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-spinning-around-too-much-kill-you/603372>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [November 18, 2011, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-spinning-around-too-much-kill-you/603372 "2011-11-18T18:56:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![jmbraben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@jmbraben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jmbraben)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-spinning-around-too-much-kill-you/603372/1 "2011-11-18T18:56:13Z")

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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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**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-spinning-around-too-much-kill-you/603372/2 "2011-11-18T19:19:12Z")

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The column in question is [Will spinning around too much kill you?](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/3023/what-s-that-smell-right-before-it-rains-plus)

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

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**Author:** ![Powers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Powers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Powers)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-spinning-around-too-much-kill-you/603372/3 "2011-11-22T20:08:51Z")

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> [@jmbraben](#):
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> Personally I’d slow down and smell the coffee at 1G and take the extra day.

Don’t forget that you would only accelerate for half the distance to Mars; you’d spend the rest of the trip decelerating. =)  
Powers &8^]