So...if you were thrown out of a spaceship into vacuum, your internal pressure would blow you apart as your blood boiled and killed you instantly, right? Wrong.
Well, pressure gradients can have an astonishing effect; This film shows what happens to a crab when it encounters a 3mm hole in a 0 PSI pipeline at a pressure depth of 2700PSI.
why get in the way of truly imaginative gory visions? :-)
In any event, in a true vaccuum experience, there'd be the radiation exposure to worry about as well. Even a short time could guarantee sterility or worse.
There's rules for it in Transhuman Space. Almost as good as the rules for hydrostatic shock in Blue Planet. I will never forget the look on the face of one particular player just after he said 'I bet this game doesn't have rules for Hydrostatic shock!'
And I had to fudge round it in some fiction of my own, because I wanted lots of explody gore at that point.
Not a physicist or anything, but I like my SF HARD.
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Well, you'd be freezing at the same time...
Date: 2003-02-11 06:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-02-11 07:08 am (UTC)I wonder what would happen if we did it with a tortoise??
Re:
Date: 2003-02-11 07:23 am (UTC)It's not quite a tortoise, but it's fairly crunchy...
http://crustacea.nhm.org/~dean2/crab.html
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Poor crab.
Now now
In any event, in a true vaccuum experience, there'd be the radiation exposure to worry about as well. Even a short time could guarantee sterility or worse.
Re: Now now
Date: 2003-02-11 08:28 am (UTC)Re: Now now
Date: 2003-02-11 11:30 am (UTC)Re: Now now
Date: 2003-02-11 12:07 pm (UTC)There's rules for it in Transhuman Space. Almost as good as the rules for hydrostatic shock in Blue Planet. I will never forget the look on the face of one particular player just after he said 'I bet this game doesn't have rules for Hydrostatic shock!'
And I had to fudge round it in some fiction of my own, because I wanted lots of explody gore at that point.
Not a physicist or anything, but I like my SF HARD.
Re: Now now
Date: 2003-02-12 02:40 am (UTC)