Re: Henry LaMothe

["Bernard G. Cleyet & Nancy Ann Seese" <georgeann@REDSHIFT.COM>]

The recent hot book "The WORST-CASE SCENARIO    Survival Handbook"

Includes Ch. 3 Leaps of Faith ....

How to ... into a river
..from a bldg. into a dumpster
......
.. Jump from a moving car..
... Leap from a motorcycle to a Car...

bc

It includes such delight full info. as:  ..... This means landing on your
stomach can result in a broken back

Joel Rauber wrote:

> Just a small quibble on statements like that below; i.e. statements like
> 200g acceleration uniformly distributed is survivable.
>
> If an acceleration is truly uniformly distributed throughout all parts of my
> body, then I can survive any size acceleration.  So these numbers must all
> mean differential amounts of acceleration of parts of the body relative to
> other parts of the body.
>
> > According to the Wayne State University concussion tolerance
> > curve (see
> > Phys Today, March '87, page 43), 100 g's can only be tolerated (by the
> > brain) for 5 or 6 milliseconds.  25 ms is much longer that
> > than!  Wolfgang
> > Rueckner
>
> Joel Rauber
> Joel_Rauber@sdstate.edu