re abyss breathing fluids in apr cc ic ac uk atae spva ph ic ac uk ata etemadi writes the forever war one of my favorite scifi books had a passage devoted to breathing fluids the idea was to protect people from the high accelerations required for interstellar travel by emersing the passengers in dry cleaning fluid saturated with oxygen plenty of very imaginative ideas is this book i would certainly recommend it won the hugo and the nebula awards and most definitely read it in conjunction with heinlein s starship trooper the two books are radically different viewpoints of the same basic premises i ve even heard tell of english classes built around this insisting on perfect safety is for people who don t have the balls to live in the real world mary shafer nasa ames dryden fred mccall dseg ti com i don t speak for others and they don t speak for me
