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Acceleration couches: How do they work?
In fantasy sci-fi like Star Wars and Star Trek, they have magical inertial damper fields that neutralise the crushing effects of acceleration but in more realistic, hard sci-fi such as Traveller I have often come across the concept of the acceleration couch, but I was wondering what was so special about them that you couldn't be crushed like a can at 11Gs when reclining in one of them. I mean, they might be soft but 11Gs is 11Gs.
I noticed at the beginning of Peter Hamilton's Reality Dysfunction the 'Nanonics' in the body temporarily strengthened the body so that it could resist the crushing forces. Has there ever been any thought given to how Acceleration couches work in Traveller? A localised inertial dampening field perhaps? Acceleration at less Gs? I know Trav ships only go up to 6. Is that sustainable for a human if they are layed out on a padded couch?
Intrigued,
Crow
In fantasy sci-fi like Star Wars and Star Trek, they have magical inertial damper fields that neutralise the crushing effects of acceleration but in more realistic, hard sci-fi such as Traveller I have often come across the concept of the acceleration couch, but I was wondering what was so special about them that you couldn't be crushed like a can at 11Gs when reclining in one of them. I mean, they might be soft but 11Gs is 11Gs.
I noticed at the beginning of Peter Hamilton's Reality Dysfunction the 'Nanonics' in the body temporarily strengthened the body so that it could resist the crushing forces. Has there ever been any thought given to how Acceleration couches work in Traveller? A localised inertial dampening field perhaps? Acceleration at less Gs? I know Trav ships only go up to 6. Is that sustainable for a human if they are layed out on a padded couch?
Intrigued,
Crow