I'm not so sure. Are we forgetting the energy transfer when a blow lands? And these aren't rigid systems. The sort of blow to the jaw which knocks out your enemy is a sudden acceleration of the skull, with a lot of rotation because it's anchored by the neck, which rattles the brains about as the momentum in transferred. Concussion, in other words, and that's going to happen even in zero-g.
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Date: 2010-09-03 06:56 pm (UTC)