7.2 g acceleration. You could strap a human on there and they’d survive the acceleration phase.
For an untrained person this might well be lethal.
Yeah this link says most people can only take 4 to 6 g, but fighter pilots can take up to 9.
https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/whats-the-maximum-speed-a-human-can-withstand
As other commenter pointer out direction of force is important. Horizontal force is much less dangerous as it doesn’t drain your brain of blood as much as a vertical one. If I recall correctly humans can survive 20-40 Gs of horizontal force compared to just 5-9 of vertical.
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Timestamp points to drunk. I have no recollection of this thread or your comment.
That’s an expensive way to look inside your own skull.
Now we just need those inertial dampeners!
What a way to spill your cocktail…
I wouldn’t want to travel in that, but it would be a good way to get shit into orbit without using rockets.
Railgun that shit up
How far did it travel in that 2 seconds?
If acceleration were constant (and my math is right), it would be 194m. We can assume due to air resistance being proportional to the square of the speed that acceleration will be more initially and less later, so realistically it will be >194m
Your move hyperloop.
So what’s the limit of the human body? That’s more than a couple g.
I don’t know but it seems like the simple answer is to just not accelerate that fast. I doubt this was an attempt to imply that we should do this regularly. It’s just a test to show what the technology is capable of. There’s no real benefit to accelerating to that speed that quickly vs doing it over 30 seconds or longer.
You can absolutely accelerate this fast if there are no people on board. China probably wants safe autonomous cargo trains at some point.
What about eggs lol
Autonomous 500kph cargo trains would be fantastic.
Why would they transport eggs this way…? Fast (expensive) cargo trains would be used for valuable products. For example minerals, metals, computer chips.
Have you seen the price of eggs?
That’s a US thing. Also, have you seen the price of everything?
There are non-transportation uses for it. Namely for weapons.
Call me a victim blamer, but if you let your enemy build a superconducting maglev rail from their territory to yours, I feel like that’s on you.
Mr President, a second train has hit the Twin Towers.
You can’t think any non-living thing someone would want to transfer beyond weapons? 😂
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Definitely a “look what I can do” test and not a practical example of how the trams in Beijing will travel between stops. Though it would reduce trip time!
20-40 Gs for horizontal force.
Squishy.
