Surviving in Space Without a Spacesuit 481
Geoffrey writes "The recent movie Sunshine features a scene (echoing the famous scene in 2001: a Space Odyssey) in which two astronauts have to cross from one ship to another without spacesuits. But, can you survive in space without a spacesuit?
Morgan Smith, writing in Slate, asks whether this is realistic, and concludes: "Yes, for a very short time.""
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"Space Hickey"? (Score:1, Funny)
next time (Score:5, Funny)
Of course, on Earth, you could hold your breath for several minutes without passing out. But that's not going to help in a vacuum. In fact, attempting to hold your breath is a sure way to a quick death.
You can survive for 30 seconds (Score:5, Funny)
Also, on the Simpsons (Score:3, Funny)
Forget the big problem; important smaller problem (Score:5, Funny)
Re:next time (Score:4, Funny)
There's only really one person who might sit in the intersection of "been in space" and "reads slashdot", so unless Shuttleworth is reading this you just wasted a minute of your life that you will never get back
About 30 Seconds (Score:3, Funny)
Re:You can survive for 30 seconds (Score:5, Funny)
So did Farscape (Score:3, Funny)
Re:next time (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Forget the big problem; important smaller probl (Score:4, Funny)
Re:You can survive for 30 seconds (Score:4, Funny)
Re:You can survive for 30 seconds (Score:3, Funny)
Re:SG-1 had a similar scene (Score:5, Funny)
Can you imagine being the next guy to use that suit?
"Uh, sorry but Jeff thought that tarantulas were crawling in his suit so he pulled his air line and exploded. We cleaned it the best we could."
Re:2001 Movie. (Score:3, Funny)
Sounds like someone needs to take a deep breath. I'm suffering from oxygen deprivation just reading that sentence.
Re:You can survive for 30 seconds (Score:1, Funny)
Re:SG-1 had a similar scene (Score:3, Funny)
You're probably getting modded as "-1 Troll" since there's no "-1 Illiterate moron" mod. Since I'm posting AC anyhow, here's a racial epitaph for you:
Here lies a dead Chinaman. RIP
Re:15 seconds? (Score:1, Funny)
In space, nobody can.. (Score:5, Funny)
[The author of this post understands the negligible effects of loss of heat solely through radiation in extremely short time periods, but encourages the reader to take a break and try to laugh].
Re:Three magic words: (Score:2, Funny)
Re:So did Farscape (Score:2, Funny)
Also Star Trek Nemesis (Score:4, Funny)
Data jumped from the Enterprise to the Predator without a suit (or anything other than momentum to carry him), but of course being an android he could probably better sustain the lack of air pressure, oxygen and severe UV exposure no problem. His big problem was the self-propulsion.
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Re:SG-1 had a similar scene (Score:3, Funny)
I wonder what would be the effect of space engines an unprotected human in vacuum trying to get inside...
Re:SG-1 had a similar scene (Score:5, Funny)
And the best quote from that episode was seconds before that, when Carter asked whether it was possible to transport them directly from the inside of the fighter:
Carter Dad, can you beam them up?
Jacob/Selmak Who am I, Scotty?
Re:So did Farscape (Score:3, Funny)
Re:15 seconds? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:next time (Score:4, Funny)
Duct tape (Score:5, Funny)
Couple of rolls sounds like a reasonable makeshift pressure suit.
Re:next time (Score:1, Funny)
What? CleverNickName doesn't read slashdot anymore?
Re:Imagine drowning if you couldn't hold your brea (Score:1, Funny)
Wow - such presence of mind. Although he was about to pass out, he reasoned his way through the physical cause of his saliva evaporating!