Comments by "EebstertheGreat" (@EebstertheGreat) on "World's Highest Jumping Robot" video.

It is tempting to think that a 300 gee force would "kill basically any living creature," but that is far from true. A typical concussion due to linear acceleration happens if your head accelerates in the ballpark of 100 gees. And even 300 gees is survivable, though the concussion is likely to be severe. It's just that the acceleration is very brief, as it is with this jumper. While a 300 gee jump would cause serious injury to a human, fleas experience peak accelerations over 800 gees when jumping, and woodpecker heads experience accelerations of over 1200 gees when pecking (on every single peck!). So it certainly won't kill everything.
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@andrewharrison8436 Well the animals I mentioned have special adaptations to survive those accelerations, so they will never compare directly to animals that don't. That said, it is definitely true on large scales that smaller organisms take acceleration better. The extreme case are bacteria. E. coli and P. denitrificans have been found to survive and even proliferate at >400,000 g.
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