David Darling
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349 appearances
2 recordings
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard 1 Aug
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And it unfortunately caused a lot of problems, spinal injuries, serious neck injuries, because they didn't really know how to make roller coasters properly at the time.
And now, of course, we know more about the physics of it.
You don't do vertical circles, you do teardrop shaped curves.
So you come in on a gentler angle before you go into the circle.
So that was something they had to learn through experience.
Of course, when we started thinking about spaceflight, we needed to
see whether the human body could withstand high G-forces.
So that's when you started putting astronauts and test subjects into centrifuges and seeing what the limits of human tolerance are.
But to really go to the extreme,
of what humans are capable of withstanding in terms of acceleration you have to look at the experiments of john stapp who was a surgeon who worked for the u.s air force and he subjected himself to extraordinary uh situations on a rocket sled and uh on december 10 1954
He got on this rocket sled called Sonic Wind 1 and fired the rockets.
And in five seconds time, he was traveling at 632 miles per hour, which is pretty fast than what an airliner would travel at cruising altitude.
Not only that, but he then hit a water trough, which broke him from 632 miles per hour to zero in just over one second, to the equivalent of hitting a brick wall at 120 miles an hour.
And he did survive it.
Yes, loudest.
One of the loudest things that humans have built was actually an aircraft and not a jet aircraft.
It was a propeller aircraft, a prop plane.
It's called the Thunder Screech.
Well, that was its nickname anyway.
And it was tremendously loud.
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