Erik Max Francis
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Fri Jan 07, 2005 10:57 am Post subject:
Re: Colony ship to Alpha Centauri - The Motion Picture Conce |
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Rich Grise wrote:
| Quote: | I guess the point is, you'd probably stay conscious for more than 15
seconds, but it would, like, hurt, like being strangled or something.
Shudder!
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No, you wouldn't. The vacuum doesn't just prevent you from breathing,
it also seriously deoxygenates the blood that passes through your lungs.
When the blood first deoxygenated from the depressurization incident
reaches your brain through normal circulation, suddenly your brain is
getting almost zero oxygen; that takes 5-15 seconds. Then you pass out
very quickly.
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