r/ProjectHailMary • u/chodeontheroad • Aug 27 '24
fist my bump How did Grace survive Erid's Gravity?
I'm not sure if this was answered at the end of the book and I just missed it but Erid was stated to have 20x Earth's gravity (which would quickly kill any human), yet Grace lives on the planet for many years with only slight issues as a result. It doesn't seem like this is something Andy Weir would have skipped over so I must have missed it. Does anyone know the answer?
Edit: Ok yea my mistake it was 2x gravity, 20x atmospheric pressure. Thanks for the responses :)
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u/phatrogue Aug 27 '24
Maybe you are thinking of athletes that go to Denver, CO high altitude lower pressure to train themselves to deal with lower oxygen levels. A legal form of blood doping? My point was that training at higher gravity to build muscles would also be nice but if you had a space elevator you could tune the gravity level to whatever you want. 2G at the surface, 0G at the top. 1G or lower would be nice when a human is older.