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You are here: Home / Google+ Posts / What Would A Ride In The Millennium Falcon Actually Do To Your Body?

What Would A Ride In The Millennium Falcon Actually Do To Your Body?

December 29, 2014 by Paul Spoerry 41 Comments

 

If the math in the article is right in this maneuver you'd hit about 12g's… so most would be guaranteed to black out. If it's higher then it would basically destroy your body.

MOAR: http://io9.com/could-anyone-actually-endure-the-g-forces-in-the-new-st-1675579230

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Comments

  1. Jess Nut says

    December 29, 2014 at 11:18 am

    Well if it can jump to light speed in a few seconds, I'm pretty sure it can handle a barrel roll without killing you. Some sort of inertia dampeners.

  2. Joel James says

    December 29, 2014 at 11:18 am

    Either make me vomit or give me a hard on.

  3. Kyle Reyes says

    December 29, 2014 at 11:20 am

    Great article, but as most people will(do) point out. If the ship can do all that it does, including: "made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs". I am sure it can handle the G force somehow, no?

  4. Paul Spoerry says

    December 29, 2014 at 11:34 am

    I think in most sci-fi it would be like +Jess Nut said… "inertia dampeners".

  5. Tom Mitchell says

    December 29, 2014 at 11:44 am

    Well, since the ship obviously has its own internal artificial gravity, I'm sure they've worked out G forces too. grin

  6. Alex Hernandez says

    December 29, 2014 at 11:57 am

    that's called "filler content"
    when you don't have any news to write about, you have to write something to fill up the space and if you make it something people will talk or argue over, even more views for your site…..well played +io9

  7. Jason Honingford says

    December 29, 2014 at 11:57 am

    Star Trek calls it inertial dampeners – but they work the same way in Star Wars. It works with the engine, so you get no force when the engine is moving the ship, since it can predict the movement, but when another force moves the ship such as particle weapons, tractor beams, and space worms, you will get bumped around as the dampeners try to catch up.

  8. Christopher Aultman says

    December 29, 2014 at 12:04 pm

    I remember the episode of Stargate when they were test piloting a new space fighter and briefly explained inertial dampeners. That was good enough for me.

  9. Paul Williams says

    December 29, 2014 at 1:28 pm

    +Kyle Reyes Case Closed! "made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs".

  10. CatStarSTO says

    December 29, 2014 at 4:31 pm

    +Paul Williams a parsec measures distance…did Han mail it the rest of the way? ^^

  11. Angela Pacheco says

    December 29, 2014 at 9:09 pm

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  12. Roger Abramson says

    December 30, 2014 at 6:48 am

    Okay. Star Wars screws around with sound in space, gravity in space, aliens who look humanoid and speak English, and light sabers. THIS is what you've got a problem with.

  13. Christopher Aultman says

    December 30, 2014 at 7:14 am

    You can still believe in unicorns and ask if they poop rainbows. The question is valid.

  14. Paul Williams says

    December 30, 2014 at 10:46 am

    +Roger Abramson Your issue with "aliens who look humanoid and speak English" is totally unrelated to this thread! Dont you know that EVERYBODY speaks English in space!

  15. Christopher Aultman says

    December 30, 2014 at 11:11 am

    #BabelFish

  16. Terry Poulin says

    December 30, 2014 at 11:17 am

    It's sci-fi so all I'd worry about is whether the inertial dampers fail on that lovable old bucket o' bolts.

    Also if the wookie flipped them to 0 or slit the seatbelts in revenge over a Dejarik loss…

  17. Jaime Cintron says

    December 30, 2014 at 11:46 am

    It's a scifi flick!!!

  18. Christopher Aultman says

    December 30, 2014 at 11:50 am

    It should also be noted that where StarTrek is regarded as Science Fiction, Starwars has always been regarded as Science Fantasy.

  19. Joseph Le May says

    December 30, 2014 at 12:14 pm

    Seems to me that, since they don't experience microgravity when they're in space, they control the local gravity within the ship, so this seems moot.

  20. Eric Wendlandt says

    December 30, 2014 at 12:25 pm

    The Kessel run is favored by smugglers because no large ship could survive it. It is a string of black holes. Distance matters because it's a measure of how crazy you are regarding how close to the black holes you are willing to get.

  21. Richard Miller says

    December 30, 2014 at 12:39 pm

    It's a Movie, thus Movie Magic. Enjoy the show and don't over analyze it.

  22. Erik Grondin says

    December 30, 2014 at 12:45 pm

    Fairly postitive if tge thing has warp drive whitch is supostivly about the speed of light it has a way to minus out thr g factor there cat argument closed

  23. Gary Wilson says

    December 30, 2014 at 12:48 pm

    Inertia dampener's every ship has one in the star wars galaxy, duh! 😉😁

  24. Rob Ponce says

    December 30, 2014 at 12:58 pm

    Wouldn't the overall gravity of the planet also impact how much g-force is applied to the body in a maneuver like that? If the math used was based on Earths gravity then the math is wrong unless the MF was flying around in one of our deserts…

  25. Christopher Aultman says

    December 30, 2014 at 1:01 pm

    The premise of inertial dampeners is that objects in the area of protection suffer little to no effects of or from outside gravitational forces. Otherwise, the Falcon's occupants would have mush for brains.

  26. Sam Hemond says

    December 30, 2014 at 1:05 pm

    Many of the books bringup inertia dampener's.

  27. Terry Poulin says

    December 30, 2014 at 1:41 pm

    +Rob Ponce to my understanding calculating the g force being experienced would be derived from the gravity of the planet you are flying on. But xg is still defined in terms of earth, e.g. (x=1)g = standing on earth. So 12g is still 12g whatever planet you are on. Figuring out if you're expericing 12g or not takes knowing something about what planet you're on.

    Disclaimer: I'm not a math wiz and haven't muddled with gravity since my teens. Here's some Google-Fu that's probably far smarter than I am:

    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_force

    http://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/circles/lesson-3/the-value-of-g

  28. Matthew Malkewich says

    December 30, 2014 at 1:58 pm

    😮 "Wicked G's though !!"

  29. Enzo DiT says

    December 30, 2014 at 2:10 pm

    it uses a technology where the inner force has zero to little effect to what the outer forces feels like the way the earth spins in space . I explained this to how it would be the only way to space travel at such speeds .

  30. Terry Poulin says

    December 30, 2014 at 2:13 pm

    +Enzo DiT unless they like being turned into paste across the bulkhead

  31. Alex Meza says

    December 30, 2014 at 2:29 pm

    does it have fog lights, you know, in case you get lost in the swamp…?

  32. Allen Tanner II says

    December 30, 2014 at 2:39 pm

    Solo might be screwed, but I am pretty sure Wookie physiology can handle up to 20gs.

  33. Wade Wilson says

    December 30, 2014 at 2:41 pm

    Wouldn't a ship that's able to go into "hyperspace" or "light speed" or whatever, have protection for its passengers? It shouldn't matter what speeds any of the Star Wars ships, or any fictional ships go, because they wouldn't engineer them to go that fast without countermeasures for the ill effects.

  34. John Rutene says

    December 30, 2014 at 7:22 pm

    no g-force felt as all sci fi ships has…… wait for it, gravity shields
    ch-yesss with your very own gravity shield you can fly upside down in space and not know it as you will always be right side up
    well you can even do a loop de loop and not feel it because as we know gravity keeps us fixed from flying straight out into the void
    did everyone forget that the earth spins, why without gravity there would not be anything to keep us from being flung outwards (p.s same gravity shield that keeps air from escaping)

  35. Robert Hoyt says

    December 30, 2014 at 9:25 pm

    Are we really arguing over the physics of a science fiction movie?

    One that has, but is not limited to: swords of laser, gigantic stations capable of destroying entire planets, aliens, and a mystic power known as the Force?

    Just let it be a movie… And enjoy it.

  36. Terry Poulin says

    December 30, 2014 at 9:50 pm

    +Robert Hoyt aye, and let's not even start on the math people on the Internet have put into the destroying entire planets part….lol

  37. chris maldonado says

    December 30, 2014 at 10:03 pm

    what idiot has a ship like this and doesn't have some sort of pressurized cabin?? not han fucking solo you depraved shaved ape! cmon man post something really intersting

  38. MrMonkeyInk says

    December 30, 2014 at 10:47 pm

    +Richard Miller "… don't over analyse it"? Where's the fun in that?

  39. Jody Ross says

    December 31, 2014 at 4:26 am

    Someone's taking this a little too serious…

  40. chris maldonado says

    December 31, 2014 at 11:43 am

    I was joking for my part, yes seriously indeed

  41. Hugo Chikamori says

    December 31, 2014 at 2:04 pm

    All this is is the camera rotating around what is a "glorified barrel roll" in aerial combat terms. All this maneuver is, is a barrel-roll, folks, and not some high-speed positive G loop.

    And even in atmosphere, inertial dampeners would compensate for the G-forces sustained.

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