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Old 10-15-2012, 10:00 PM   #47
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Originally Posted by Smittie61984 View Post
You're right except that in free fall in a vacuum where you have absolutely no forces acting on your at all the molecules in your body are going to fall at the same rate as yoru space suit or as if you were made out of solid steel. Everything falls at the same rate in a vacuum. If for some magical reason your stomach fell at say 9.80 meters per second per second and the rest of your body fell at 9.81 meters per second per second then you'd feel your stomach because your stomach would exert a force against your nerves which are trying to travel at a different velocity.
When you say "everything falls at the same rate in a vacuum", yes that's true........ but you're talking about comparing a rock versus a piece of paper. Sure, they would both fall at the same rate in a vacuum. In fact, so would a human body. But, WITHIN that body, the organs are free to move indepedantly.

Think about Battlestar Gallactica. Those Viper ships? The pilots had to wear spacesuits, because there's no life support in those ships. So, they're in a vacuum. Now, what happens when they hit "Launch" and catapult out of the Gallactica? They get pushed back into their seat. Being in a vacuum makes no difference, they still get pushed back into the seat. And yes I realize it's just TV, but there is no reason why that wouldn't happen in real life.

So what I'm saying is, organs would get pushed around inside a body, the same way that a Viper pilot would get pushed back into his seat when he fires his engines.

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