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To: BenLurkin

The “depressurization” wouldn’t hurt anyone inside? Just asking.


22 posted on 12/25/2018 10:54:47 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: carriage_hill
Isn't the pressure around 5 psi?

So, the blood isn't going to "boil", but eventually other things happen, such as the lungs giving up gases, rather than exchanging, skin oils evaporating, etc.

Not that it's happened in real life, but I've read that the airlock scene in "2001" is thought to be pretty accurate.

46 posted on 12/25/2018 12:40:20 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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