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  • @FooBarringtonOP
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    21 year ago

    Oh man, that’s scary! I’d guess that one scene in Interstellar was inspired by this event?

    • Naja Kaouthia
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      21 year ago

      I honestly couldn’t say but I know what scene you’re talking about! NASA has Col. John Stapp to thank for a lot of knowledge about the effects of acceleration on the human body. The “fastest man on Earth” was a career Air Force flight surgeon who worked on Project Manhigh. He often put himself into the rocket sled they used to observe how acceleration and deceleration affected the human body, surviving a 38g deceleration. He was temporally blind for some time after that because of bleeding into his retinas.