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What really happens when people are exposed in outer space?

Uploaded from a long time ago. It's currently the highest selling game, I think.

I haven't played it yet, though. I sold my Wii to a desperate parent over Christmas...damnit. I thought I'd have another by now!
>> Anonymous
Oekaki, use the mother fucker
>> Anonymous
The game is fucking awesome, and the only thing that could have made it better was if Mario occasionally burst into a fine bloody mist.
>> Anonymous
>>138935
well it IS an oekaki, just not a new one. Mods have allowed it before
>> Anonymous
If you don't try to hold your breath, exposure to space for half a minute or so is unlikely to produce permanent injury. Holding your breath is likely to damage your lungs, something scuba divers have to watch out for when ascending, and you'll have eardrum trouble if your Eustachian tubes are badly plugged up, but theory predicts -- and animal experiments confirm -- that otherwise, exposure to vacuum causes no immediate injury. You do not explode. Your blood does not boil. You do not freeze. You do not instantly lose consciousness.

Various minor problems (sunburn, possibly "the bends", certainly some [mild, reversible, painless] swelling of skin and underlying tissue) start after ten seconds or so. At some point you lose consciousness from lack of oxygen. Injuries accumulate. After perhaps one or two minutes, you're dying. The limits are not really known.

You do not explode and your blood does not boil because of the containing effect of your skin and circulatory system. You do not instantly freeze because, although the space environment is typically very cold, heat does not transfer away from a body quickly. Loss of consciousness occurs only after the body has depleted the supply of oxygen in the blood. If your skin is exposed to direct sunlight without any protection from its intense ultraviolet radiation, you can get a very bad sunburn.
>> Anonymous
>>138966
But exploding eyes and boiling blood is cool :C
>> Anonymous
So Mario Galaxy has realistic physics?
>> Anonymous
>>138966

I fucking hope you're trolling, because the matterless VACUUM of space begs to differ.
>> Anonymous
"Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how
vastly hugely mindboggingly big it is. I mean you may think it's a long
way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.
Listen..." and so on.
(After a while the style settles down a bit and it begins to tell you
things you really need to know, like the fact that the fabulously
beautiful planet Bethselamin is now so worried about the cumulative
erosion by ten billion visiting tourists a year that any net imbalance
between the amount you eat and the amount you excrete whilst on the planet
is surgically removed from your bodyweight when you leave: so every time
you go to the lavatory it is vitally important to get a receipt.)
[...]
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy says that if you hold a lungful
of air you can survive in the total vacuum of space for about thirty
seconds. However it goes on to say that what with space being the mind
boggling size it is the chances of getting picked up by another ship
within those thirty seconds are two to the power of two hundred and
sixty-seven thousand seven hundred and nine to one against.
>> Anonymous
>>139611
God fucking damn it you beat me to it.
>> Anonymous
>>139584
Don't blame him, blame those physicist trolls at NASA for testing this.

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/970603.html