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To: SunkenCiv
The atmospheric pressure at the surface of Mars is about what is found at 40 miles altitude over the Earth.

Which would kill you first if you were kicked out of an air lock naked on Mars Remember a habitat on Mars would not be kept at 1 standard Earth atmosphere. It would be more likely at the pressure of a airliner at 30,000 feet which is the air pressure at about 7000 feet.

Freeze to death

Blood boil

Asphyxiate.

Brain hemorrhage/stroke.

65 posted on 11/21/2019 12:31:37 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: Pontiac
Remember that there are no Earth habitats on Mars, and that the surface conditions won't support anything other than microbial life -- no humanoids, no insects, none of Arthur C. Clarke's banyan trees.

66 posted on 11/21/2019 1:36:26 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Pontiac

The pressure is equivalent to Earth at 100,000 feet. The atmosphere is predominantly carbon dioxide, but at that pressure it doesn’t matter. Your blood boils as you asphyxiate, without a pressure suit.


70 posted on 11/21/2019 2:06:05 PM PST by Campion ((marine dad))
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