(May 20, 2012 at 11:05 am)Stimbo Wrote: Actually, the main dangers of exposure to the vacuum of space are oxygen related. The obvious one is the lack of any to breathe, which would cause death in a matter of minutes, but another less well known effect (unless you're a SCUBA diver) is pulmonary barotrauma, one manifestation of which involves a lungful of deeply held breath rapidly expanding to a greater volume than your lungs can contain. Not, I would imagine, particularly pleasant.
So is the scene in 2001 where he opens the pod door and pops out into the main spacecraft to confront HAL possible? Or would his lungs burst first?
