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InTheEndEntropyWins t1_j10620x wrote

Reply to comment by Jagid3 in Could being submersed in a sealed tank of fluid help humans survive heavy G acceleration in outer space? by cheeze_whiz_shampoo

How would filling someone with fluid help?

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annomandaris t1_j10lffz wrote

air compresses, so if you have air in your lungs, and accelerate, the lungs will collapse.

If there was fluid inside and outside the lungs, there would be no compression of the lungs, its like how a bottle can fall to the bottom of the ocean and not break.

But yea you have to get them all, fill the empty stomach and bowels, nasal cavaties, lungs,

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Tanagriel t1_j113t53 wrote

In the fiction movie “The Abyss” from 1989, they use a breathable fluid as to endure the pressure at deep ocean. Quite well made scene in how they need to control the body symptoms of drowning when taking the fluid into the lungs. ✌️

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--VoidHawk-- t1_j11no0m wrote

A similar solution has been described in a number of science fiction works.

My favorite solution was in the Hyperion cantos. Just let the meat get splattered by the massive accelerations used for travel, which then gets reconstructed once the passenger reaches their destination, thanks to a weird tech/bioform they discovered.

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phred14 t1_j11puxg wrote

In "The Forever War", by Joe Haldeman, they used fluid compression to survive extreme acceleration in their starships. Most of the time was shirt-sleeves, but when they went into battle, it was "into the tank." He goes into a fair bit of gory detail about the discomforts of it. Frequently better science fiction authors will have some amount of research behind what they write, but I have no idea what research he might have done back in the mid-1970s when this was written.

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slashdave t1_j11t701 wrote

In the UFO TV show, the aliens space suits were filled with blue liquid for breathing. This idea turned into a plot device later in the series (the aliens were very human looking, with a blue skin color only due to this liquid staining their skin).

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