Re: Getting warp out of plywood?

"Tom Nakashima" <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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> "Scott Seidman" <namdiesttocs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> They have some marvelous stuff at Ames. I've seen this
>> (http://cgbr.arc.nasa.gov/20g_centrifuge.html) up close and personal.
>> They can't run it up to 20g during the day, as if something breaks
>> off, it could crash through the exterior wall. If you've seen Space
>> Cowboys, you've seen this centrifuge.
>> Scott
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> Did you ever get to ride the centrifuge?
> http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2002/march20/centrifuge_video-320
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Never rode that centrifuge (I've been in the cab, the investigators pod
in the center, and the control room, but I've never been on the thing
while it's been running. I've rode other centrifuges, and some
incredibly nifty devices--
http://web.unispital.ch/neurologie/vest/index.html for example), but I
was around the base when that study was being geared up. Doing human
studies on the base is a HUGE rigamarole, believe it or not, and I've
seen Mal Cohen, the director of that study, ready to explode on a number
of occasions. They had some problems with subject syncope at fairly low
g, that, IMO, got blown way out of proportion. I don't know if the study
actually got finished or not.

Mal is the guy that figured out why fighter pilots would take nose dives
into the water during carrier launches, directly impacting training.

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Scott
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