JasonH20
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Not sure how I got stuck on this train of thought, but thought I'd share it none the less.
If you are in a vacuum (ie outer space) and try to breath, your partial (and absolute) pressures would all go to 0. So I assume you would start off gasing all kinds of stuff at that point. So in outer space do you basically die by the same mechanics that a bent diver might be killed? In other words, would going polaris while diving be analogous to leaping out of a space ship with no space suit? And along the same lines, it would be impossible to hold your breath while in a vacuum for the same reasons you shouldn't hold your breath while diving?
Or are there other, more sinister, forces at play when you expose a pressurized body to the vacuum of space?
At any rate, I assume it would get kind of messy? eeuuww.
Cheers!
Jason
If you are in a vacuum (ie outer space) and try to breath, your partial (and absolute) pressures would all go to 0. So I assume you would start off gasing all kinds of stuff at that point. So in outer space do you basically die by the same mechanics that a bent diver might be killed? In other words, would going polaris while diving be analogous to leaping out of a space ship with no space suit? And along the same lines, it would be impossible to hold your breath while in a vacuum for the same reasons you shouldn't hold your breath while diving?
Or are there other, more sinister, forces at play when you expose a pressurized body to the vacuum of space?
At any rate, I assume it would get kind of messy? eeuuww.
Cheers!
Jason