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I really like Randall but this one feels like an incomplete answer. The question wasn’t how fast can we do it while being safe, the question was how fast we can do it while being alive - which is as we all know very different from safe.
Isn't that what the different G force limits at the end are about? Like, 10 G is way beyond what is survivable for that sort of duration, so it's provided as a lower limit for the time
If you’re only life threateningly injured doing acceleration, but die 5 minutes later, it counts as a win.