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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:Floating Act by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    yeah, but anime is for losers so it doesn't count.

    but thanks for the information, loser.

  2. Re:Spoilers by design? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    What were you expecting? It's sci-fi, so most likely it will be a campy, piece of shit. When are you fucking dorks going to get that through your thick heads? Most sci-fi sucks. Every once-in-a-great-long-while a good one comes out. Then, to boot, you've got the general state of movies these days anyway - shitty script, shitty CG, shitty directors. I'd rather wait for you poor sods to waste your money on that shit, before I can determine whether it sounds interesting enough to actually go see for myself. (No wonder it's been 9 years since I've been to a movie theatre.)

  3. 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.