{"id":113,"date":"2011-10-27T14:45:53","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T13:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ktgrape\/?p=113"},"modified":"2011-10-27T14:45:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T13:45:53","slug":"how-fast-can-you-spin-a-human-in-a-centrifuge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ktgrape\/2011\/10\/27\/how-fast-can-you-spin-a-human-in-a-centrifuge\/","title":{"rendered":"How fast can you spin a human in a centrifuge?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was doing some centrifuging today, spinning my bacteria shizzle at 40,000 rpm (185677.44 g). &#8220;Wow that&#8217;s zoomy and spinny&#8221; I thought. It came up in conversation &#8220;<strong>how fast could you spin a human in a centrifuge?<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to my friend Sophie, a person can survive up to 9 g at constant rotation. The average width of a person is 22 inches, so a &#8216;rotor&#8217; width of 50 inches would accommodate a person. This adds up to 80 rpm in a person-sized centrifuge.<br \/>\nHumans can withstand higher G forces for a shorter period of time, and 179.8 g is the highest ever survived by a person (David Purley in an F1 crash). Sophie is very clever and interesting.<\/p>\n<p>The original topic came up when I was worrying about breaking the centrifuge. They instil so much terror about it in my department that it&#8217;s a real anxiety. I said that if I broke the centrifuge, I&#8217;d just hide inside it. It was pointed out &#8220;I hope no one turns it on and starts you spinning&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was doing some centrifuging today, spinning my bacteria shizzle at 40,000 rpm (185677.44 g). &#8220;Wow that&#8217;s zoomy and spinny&#8221; I thought. It came up in conversation &#8220;how fast could you spin a human in a centrifuge?&#8221; According to my friend Sophie, a person can survive up to 9 g at constant rotation. The average [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ktgrape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ktgrape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ktgrape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ktgrape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ktgrape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ktgrape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ktgrape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ktgrape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ktgrape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}