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Old 26-02-2011, 12:08 PM
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Originally Posted by ballaratdragons View Post
Even without a spacesuit It is possible to live in the vacuum of space for up to 3 minutes.
Could you supply a reference for this? I'm struggling to figure this out, as the partial pressure of H2O under a vacuum at body temperature would result in boiling...


I could surmise that the body itself must be under pressure due to "containment" by the epidermis... but don't know if that would be enough.
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