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Surviving in Space Without a Spacesuit

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i'll-just-wear-a-nice-sweater dept.

Geoffrey writes "The recent movie Sunshine features a scene (echoing the famous scene in 2001: a Space Odyssey) in which two astronauts have to cross from one ship to another without spacesuits. But, can you survive in space without a spacesuit? Morgan Smith, writing in Slate, asks whether this is realistic, and concludes: "Yes, for a very short time.""

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  1. Re:"Space Hickey"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wow the mods are just off their game here, First a mod incorrectly mods a post offtopic (RTFA before you mod people!) then some one calls him on it and gets tagged offtopic. Offtopic for pointing out the parent quoted something from the article?! Not sure how thats offtopic. Atleast both the parent AND the grandparent READ the article unlike the 2 mods above...

    And Yes I posted AC because I know those sharp mods will be all over me.