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Re: Inertial Dampeners
Posted By: Ape Man <danielhamilton@earthlink.net>	Date: 7/2/00 4:25 p.m.
In Response To: Inertial Dampeners (Mr. Zarquon) > I Got into a fairly long argument last night with a friend > online about the part of the E3 Halo trailer where the transport > spins around rapidly just before the solders get off. He was > saying that the force from the sudden G's would has severly hurt > them, if not them, then the pilot who would be at the outside of > the rotation, therefor experiencing a greater amount of G Force. > I was saying that the rotation was swift, but short, so the G > forces barely effected the leutenants body. > Anyway, we eventually came to the conclusion that bungie is > using some inertial dampeners in the ships, to make the handle > better and be more responsive. Any physics majors out there want > to give a better answer. I'm not a physics major, but I can tell that the ship wasn't spinning all that fast...it did 320 degrees of rotation in about 20 seconds...modern attack helicopters such as the Commanche can meet or even exceed this turn rate. Inside, if the soldiers weren't strapped in they would've been tossed around pretty good, but assuming they're wearing restraints they would only feel 2 G's max. The pilot would experience more, but one would expect her to be trained in high-G manuevering. Modern combat pilots, with all the training they get and their spiffy G-suits, can take about 9 G's for a few seconds before blacking out...one would assume G-suit technology to have advanced greatly by the time the events in Halo occur. Even so, the pilot probably wouldn't be experiencing any more than 10 G's, which for two seconds is perfectly feasible. And women tend to respond much better to excessive G forces than men...one of the reasons the Navy and the Air Force want women to be pilots. A dropship that size in unlikely to have inertial dampers anyway, providing they've been invented in the Halo universe. You've probably read soem sci-fi novels where they talk about inertial dampers...in most semi-realistic science fiction, dampers are used aboard large starships, thus providing a way for these ships to accelerate quickly without killing everyone onboard. And in much of the sci-fi out there, most starships are accelerating at somewhere around 100 G's. THAT is when you'd need an inertial damper. Not in a tiny little dropship. And that dropship didn't seem to be handling too well, either...acceleration is terrible.

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More thoughts on the E3 trailer...	Interactive Civilian	7/1/00 3:26 p.m.
Re: More thoughts on the E3 trailer...	TOPGUNN123	7/1/00 4:04 p.m.
Re: More thoughts on the E3 trailer...	arcticwolf	7/1/00 9:28 p.m.
Now i recall thanks -NT-	TOPGUNN123	7/1/00 9:34 p.m.
Re: More thoughts on the E3 trailer...	Harnden	7/1/00 10:01 p.m.
Solution to Dissapearing Bodies	Ape Man	7/2/00 1:33 a.m.
great idea! [NT] Re: Dissapearing Bodies	menace	7/2/00 7:53 a.m.
Re: Solution to Dissapearing Bodies	Dan Rudolph	7/2/00 6:35 p.m.
Re: Solution to Dissapearing Bodies	Ape Man	7/2/00 7:28 p.m.
Re: Solution to Dissapearing Bodies	Dan Rudolph	7/2/00 10:30 p.m.
Re: Solution to Dissapearing Bodies	ApolokiA	7/3/00 2:22 a.m.
Inertial Dampeners	Mr. Zarquon	7/2/00 3:02 p.m.
Re: Inertial Dampeners	Ape Man	7/2/00 4:25 p.m.
Re: Inertial Dampeners	mattD	7/2/00 6:21 p.m.
Oh, come on!	Leon	7/3/00 4:55 p.m.
9g´s, do you have any idea	Leon	7/3/00 4:59 p.m.
Re: 9g´s, do you have any idea	mattD	7/3/00 5:14 p.m.