What's g-force and what's it do?

[Fire and Glory]

I have an idea but I want it confirmed

[Ottomic]

It has no effect in game, aside from being a direct consequence of most movement and an indicator that your rocket/parachute might break.

[Ogre420]

It's a secret goverment funded group of furry little secret agents, who's job it is to fight injustice where ever they find it ;)

[Fire and Glory]

Originally posted by vaprak:

It's a secret govermet funded group of furry little secret agents, who's job it is to fight injustice where ever they find it ;)

not that g-force

[Auddity]

YOU should'nt ever have to worry about it, unless you are falling into kerbin from what used to be a minmus orbit... I have safely landed multiple times back on kerbin with the starting parachute in carrer mode, parachute, not parachutes!

[Turiko]

g-force is normally the force of acceleration or deceleration on a body. Simple irl example: if you're in a car or on a bike and brake, you feel the force of your movement. Similarly if you accelerate, you are pushed back slightly.

It has no effect in the game (yet) as far as i know, it's just a statistic.

[Ottomic]

Originally posted by Turiko:

It has no effect in the game (yet) as far as i know, it's just a statistic.

...aside from breaking chutes at the 15G peak when they open at 500m. Especially when under Warp.

realchute[kerbalspaceport.com] fixes that, btw.

[Fire and Glory]

Originally posted by Turiko:

It has no effect in the game (yet) as far as i know, it's just a statistic.

nope I think it does if your going up then it means how slow your going coz your fighting the aptmosphere if your going down... I think the lower the better coz that means that when you open your parachute (you do use parachutes right?) theres a less likely chance that said parachute will snap off

[Ottomic]

Originally posted by Blazeandjazz:

nope I think it does if your going up then it means how slow your going coz your fighting the aptmosphere if your going down... I think the lower the better coz that means that when you open your parachute (you do use parachutes right?) theres a less likely chance that said parachute will snap off

G-Force is the measure of the acceleration of a body expressed in weight when a mass is subjected to a force. In most cases, it's the combined force of an acceleration/deceleration and the gravity currently affecting said body. A body under a 3G situation is weights three times of the force It'd weight if on Earth and stationary (1G), because said acceleration is pushing it the other way. The funny faces people make on a centrifuge? G-force. Homer Simpson's face turning into Nixon's on reentry? G-force.

You peak 15Gs when your parachutes open because you're instantly stopping about 100 m/s, which causes your Kerbal to weight 15 times their mass under normal Kerbin conditions for an instant.

I've never been too good at physics though, so take that with a grain of salt. And of course, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

[Turiko]

Originally posted by Ottomic:

Originally posted by Turiko:

It has no effect in the game (yet) as far as i know, it's just a statistic.

...aside from breaking chutes at the 15G peak when they open at 500m. Especially when under Warp.

realchute[kerbalspaceport.com] fixes that, btw.

Oh, never had that happen before... then again, 15G on reorbit is rather extreme, i assume it would mean a straight path towards a planet as opposed to an angle.

Originally posted by Blazeandjazz:

Originally posted by Turiko:

It has no effect in the game (yet) as far as i know, it's just a statistic.

nope I think it does if your going up then it means how slow your going coz your fighting the aptmosphere if your going down... I think the lower the better coz that means that when you open your parachute (you do use parachutes right?) theres a less likely chance that said parachute will snap off

G-force is both acceleration and deceleration, less is not necessarily better as you -need- it to move. Avoiding unnecessary force can be useful, for example a descent at 90 degrees angle rather than straight down.

[enamel]

It like, pins you back in your seat when you hit the gas pedal, man.

[Bullwinkle]

G-force is what kills you in a crash. As the old joke goes, it isn't the fall from the top of the Empire State building that will kill you, it is the sudden stop at the end of the fall. In this case, we're talking about massive deceleration.

It is what makes fighter pilots pass out when they turn too sharply. 1G is the amount of force from gravity (which is where the "G" comes from) you normally feel when walking around Earth. Normally you don't notice it.

2-4G is what you feel when accelerating or decelerating in a car. If you plop down hard onto a chair, you might reach 10 G for a moment. Depending on how and what direction it is applied and how long it is applied for, 3G can be enough to kill, but humans can sometimes withstand peak G-forces of 100G if it only lasts a fraction of a second. Somewhere between 10 and 100 Gs bones will start breaking. A car crash with 20-40Gs will probably put you in the hospital or kill you. Over 100, forget about it.

[Fire and Glory]

Originally posted by Bullwinkle:

G-force is what kills you in a crash. As the old joke goes, it isn't the fall from the top of the Empire State building that will kill you, it is the sudden stop at the end of the fall. In this case, we're talking about massive deceleration.

It is what makes fighter pilots pass out when they turn too sharply. 1G is the amount of force from gravity (which is where the "G" comes from) you normally feel when walking around Earth. Normally you don't notice it.

2-4G is what you feel when accelerating or decelerating in a car. If you plop down hard onto a chair, you might reach 10 G for a moment. Depending on how and what direction it is applied and how long it is applied for, 3G can be enough to kill, but humans can sometimes withstand peak G-forces of 100G if it only lasts a fraction of a second. Somewhere between 10 and 100 Gs bones will start breaking. Over 100, forget about it.

Oh please, why do people seek out dead threads that have already been answered to dump their answer into it?

I really hate being reminded of how I behaved on the internet 2 years ago.

[Bullwinkle]

Sorry to offend you. I wasn't seeking out dead threads. I just played the KSP for the first time today and saw that my astronaut survived a flight with 35G, so I thought I'd see what other people had posted about G-forces. I didn't check the dates. I had no idea that you were a hater, but I'll be sure to avoid anything with your name on it in the future.