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Originally Posted by Rupert
That'd work vs the gave plates, but most likely not on the end of the corridor coming at you with 6G acceleration.
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Why not? (Assuming your grav belt could handle 6 Gs, that is. There's no doubt some cheap consumer models that only do one or two G, just meant for those quick runs to the flying grocery store above the corner.) The belt doesn't care which way is supposed to be down. Tell it to hold position, or accelerate no more than 1G in any direction, or 0.1 G in any direction.
It's only a little harder to solve the problem of the ship turning the grav plates off, then accelerating at 6G. You're not moving, so an inertial sensor won't help. A boarding belt designed to handle that would need some way to sense its position relative to the walls, like radar / ladar or optical flow. (Ultrasound would work, too, but you can't count on their being an atmosphere.)