On really high-G planets, wouldn’t our space legs snap underneath us?

Branithar

Branithar
I found this fun G-force/weight calculator:
http://www.meracalculator.com/physics/classical/weight-force.php

On a 10G planet that I landed on, I’d weigh well over a thousand lbs, and on a 33G high metal content planet with an atmosphere, that I had come across, I’d weigh over 4,000 lbs.

With that kind weight, if we could manage to stand, wouldn’t our legs snap underneath us? And wouldn’t our arms be so heavy we couldn’t even lift our arms to reach the controls? :D
 

Branithar

Branithar
shreddog said:
You would pass out and die pretty quickly.
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Oh yeah, good point, all your blood would pool at your feet and you’d black out pretty quickly. And if I could manage to get my ship upside down...ow!...that would give me a pretty bad headache.
 
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FNLWA

FNLWA
Just think of our spacesuits as exoskeletons that also manage the bloodflow. As a matter of fact they must already be doing that. The acceleration forces of the ships alone, and I'm talking about basic thrusters here, are already extreme and in the very high G area.
 

Raith

Raith
In a long past Q&A one of the Dev's, probably Mike Brooks, said that the suits are partially what manages blood flow etc, but also that most pilots have cyber/bioware and are on a regime of drugs that counteract the effects of being in Zee-Gee for so long. So I'm guessing those same augmentations are what counteracts low/high G.

Basically all those Performance Enhancers we ship around? They're not just little blue pills.
 

WR3ND

WR3ND
Those chicken stick meat pop things dangling in front of us? I just assumed they were some decorative holdover from our ancient past.
 

Branithar

Branithar
Raith said:
In a long past Q&A one of the Dev's, probably Mike Brooks, said that the suits are partially what manages blood flow etc
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Ah, so the suit keeps our blood flowing so we don’t black out. And the suit must have some kind of mechanical assist so we could lift our arms. Considering that we’d need the suit to stay alive, even inside our ship, I’m disappointed I wasn’t watching the stream, ‘cause I would’ve asked “what about the smell”.
 

Amargosa

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And that's why humans will never be able to colonise other planets with anything more than a token crew of a handful people at most.
 

Muetdhiver

Muetdhiver
Space Puddle.

legs will be fine under 5-6G or so. Internal organs ? Not great after a little while.
 
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Old Duck

Old Duck
As a roleplayer, I purposefully do not land on planets with greater than 2G unless there is a very good reason (like a biological to catalog), and then it's only for a very short time. A flight suit can only do so much.

That said, my ship generates its own gravity while in supercruise (Lore purists can go jump in a cold pond). If I was spending all that time in zero G, my body would collapse under earth gravity, let alone these higher-G planets.
 

Sapyx

Sapyx
Our ship's thrusters can pull much more than 10 G. A typical ship's "boost" yields somewhere around 30 G. So we've all been genetically/cybernetically enhanced to cope with that kind of G-force without passing out. Or having our bones break.

Part of the Pilot's Federation membership requirements, I assume.
 
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