whabang wrote:
odin wrote:
"...What happened: when the metal bar punctured the glove, the skin of the astronaut's hand partially sealed the opening. He bled into space, and at the same time his coagulating blood sealed the opening enough that the bar was retained inside the hole."
Selfsealing spacesuits? :-D
Saw that. It must have hurt...
At least it seems exposure to vacuum conditions is over pretty quick - total loss of conciousness within 15 seconds or so. You won't have to worry about how big your ass looks after a minutes worth of your bodie's liquid content evaporating / degassing...
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Incidentally did you read the bit about the technician accidentally depressurised to vacuum? 30 seconds of exposure and after repressurisation he recovered with "no apparent injury sustained"....
...but I bet his ears popped damn hard!
