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    Mi sono sempre chiesta che succede.... ecco la risposta! "How long can a human live unprotected in space? 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,... more

    Reviewed by AngelaDark Sep 24 2008, 01:08am ( 85 reviews ) • nasa.gov

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  • Rated by Doingsoso on Oct 17, 2:17am

    How would the unprotected human body react to the vacuum of outer space? Would it inflate to bursting? or would it not? or would just the interior gases hyperinflate? We are also relating this to short-term exposure only. This question primarily relates to the pressure differential problems. Temperature or radiation considerations would be interesting as well. The question arose out of a discussion of the movie 2001. When Dave "blew" himself into the airlock from the pod without a helmet, should he have "blown up" or is there "no difference" as shown in the movie correct?

  • Rated by iFlasH on Oct 15, 10:34pm

    Oh movies....

  • Rated by kingofgorillas on Oct 03, 12:45pm

    how would a body truly behave in space? informative article

  • Reviewed by MetalReign on Sep 29, 8:14am

    The water on tongue boiling thing doesn't mean the water got hot and boiled, as it seems to be perceived by most comments. Boiling simply means to change from liquid to a gas, this can be achieved either through heating, or through depressurizing, so the boiling wouldn't feel hot at all in fact it would probably have a marked cooling effect as with normal evaporation.

  • Rated by naludd on Sep 25, 2:34pm

    The bit about the water on his tongue beginning to boil as his last memory before passing out gave me the creeps. Still, it is interesting that it isn't as sudden as you would see in a movie.

  • Rated by R0CKJ0CK on Aug 28, 4:51pm

    one of the all time myths... busted...

  • Rated by amateur6 on Aug 10, 1:06pm

    From the page: "his last conscious memory was of the water on his tongue beginning to boil. " ...not a sensation I want to experience under any circumstances, thanks very much.

  • Rated by FreeNatashaNow on May 29, 4:54am

    ''How would the unprotected human body react to the vacuum of outer space? Would it inflate to bursting? or would it not? or would just the interior gases hyperinflate?'' File under: The kind of awesometastic questions you can only get real answers to if you ask an astrophysicist, in all probability. That's too long to file under. Just file under whatever.

  • Rated by vampiricduck on May 28, 3:01pm

    One of those questions I've always wanted answered. Excellent.