re surviving large accelerations in article efpx ws uh qaop s andrew cmu edu amruth laxman al andrew cmu edu writes here s my question finally are g accelerations in fact humanly tolerable with the aid of any mechanical devices of course if these are possible what is used to absorb the acceleration this sounds a bit high to me still higher accelerations have been endured very briefly during violent deceleration if we re talking sustained acceleration i think odd gees has been demonstrated using water immersion i doubt that any of this generalizes to another order of magnitude all work is one man s work henry spencer u of toronto zoology kipling henry zoo toronto edu utzoo henry
