-----Original Message----- From: Pam Eastlick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, February 25, 2001 7:00 PM Subject: Re: Why go there? > >> > >> There have been numerous sci fi stories about this theme. A question I'd >> like to ask, though -- are human chest muscle attachments sufficient to not >> rip off your sternum, under the stresses of even low-G flight? If you're >> operating in air, you still have air pressure and density to work with... >> you'd would have to be an athlete of some merit to be able to do the >> equivalent of 100 pullups consecutively. >> >> -- JHB > >I'm no doctor, but I suspect going to the top of a 40 meter tower, jumping >off and *gliding* gently down would be within the physical capabilities of >most folk and would be sufficiently enough like actual flying to fill the >bill. At least I hope so! > >Pam In one of the "science fact" columns in the SF magazine "Analog" back in the Eighties, one guest science writer said that on Titan -- because of its combination, unique in the Solar System, of low gravity (only 1/7 of Earth's at Titan's surface) and dense atmosphere (4 times the density of Earth's at the surface), humans really could strap wings to their arms and fly there. Bruce Moomaw == You are subscribed to the Europa Icepick mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project information and list (un)subscribe info: http://klx.com/europa/
