• Question: what is the hiest g force a animal whith a brain bigger than a golfball survive?

    Asked by mattsid1 to Betul, Bridget, Ceri-Wyn, Laurel, Maria on 19 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
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      Bridget Waller answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      What a question!! Don’t know… 🙂

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      Ceri-Wyn Thomas answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      I think the highest recorded G-force withstood by a human was a staggering 46g!!!! But this was only for a few seconds.. I think for an organism with a fairly large mass anything greater than 50g would cause it to loose consciousness permanently. Fighter plane pilots have to withstand up to about 15g I think.

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      Laurel Fogarty answered on 19 Jun 2010:

      I have no idea. That is a hard question. I think the highest G force a human ever survived was 46g (that is MASSIVE) for 1.1 seconds and normal pilots can withstand 9g for a few minutes.

      The rest of us would pass out around 5g apparently!

      Smaller animals would be able to survive less I would think!

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