Game_Minds t1_j121hdb wrote
Reply to comment by JonJackjon in Could being submersed in a sealed tank of fluid help humans survive heavy G acceleration in outer space? by cheeze_whiz_shampoo
I did way too much thinking about this today lol
It would be a super small amount of heating unless the acceleration was relativistic, so negligible
The separation effect of the acceleration (centrifuge forces) would also be pretty small at all but very high accelerations
And the amount of damage caused by the acceleration would be a lot smaller without any gas at all-- BUT gas is a byproduct of a large number of our body processes like oxygen uptake, AND that acceleration would still have a meaningful effect on your body's different systems. You would still die of a stroke at pretty small accelerations
Edit: also good call! I totally forgot about the latent heat of vaporization thing being the primary factor
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