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Old 17-02-2007, 07:01 PM
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Originally Posted by [1ponders] View Post
Nothing. Apart from you'd die. Your exposed wet surfaces, mouth, eyes, nasal passages etc would dry out and you'd want to keep a tight clench on your sphincter and yes the air would be sucked from your lungs if you opened your mouth, but that is all.
True in regard to dissolved gases in your fluids, and trapped gas in spaces - but you need to think of your body water too - at 63000 feet above sea level, the vapour pressure of water hits 1 atm at the 37 deg C mark - so water boils at 37 deg (or lower as you climb) - bad news for us warm blooded buggers who are literally full of water! This is called ebullism - experiments have been done with monkeys years ago, exposing them to vacuum conditions, and then recompressing them, apparently they seemed near unscathed if they weren't exposed too long....

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