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11 Oct 2018, 9:44 am



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11 Oct 2018, 10:02 am

A Silicon Valley vibration-analysis business with which I worked in the 1980s was asked once by NASA to analyze its Space Shuttle in the possible event of a near, or on-board, explosion. Our engineers did due diligence and replied that, while the capsule would remain intact, the force trauma would be instantaneously deadly to the crew. A couple years later, the Challenger did just that.

No matter how a capsule is built, humans on-board will be killed by the forces involved.


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12 Oct 2018, 2:37 pm

Yeah. Anyone who has taken driver's ed knows that the force of the collision goes up by the square of the velocity of the collision. Anything that manages to stay in low Earth orbit is going to be moving at 18 thousand miles per hour.

Even an air bag cant save you when you hit a lamp post at THAT speed.