Friday, September 11, 2009

Testing Extreme G Forces on Humans

wiki: John Paul Stapp, M.D., Ph.D., Colonel, USAF (Ret.) (11 July 1910–13 November 1999) was a career U.S. Air Force officer, USAF flight surgeon and pioneer in studying the effects of acceleration and deceleration forces on humans. He was a colleague and contemporary of Chuck Yeager, and became known as "the fastest man on earth".
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2 comments:

  1. annom21 September, 2009 20:51

    Crazy guy! Why not use dead bodies?

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  2. cybrbeast22 September, 2009 21:15

    I guess because a living body is a better simulator. I mean a dead body can't die again of G-forces, a living one can :)

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