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Re:Relativistic Spaceship by antihipocrat on Monday February 05, 2024 @07:52PM (#39269351)
How many G's of deceleration are we talking here? I imagine even 2Gs of force wouldn't be tolerable for humans for more than an hour
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Re:Relativistic Spaceship by JumpCrisscross on Monday February 05, 2024 @08:25PM (#39269613)
> even 2Gs of force wouldn't be tolerable for humans for more than an hour

You can tolerate 2G for hours, particularly if everyone's oriented eyeballs in. That said, both aerobraking and gravity assists are intermittent accleerations.

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