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The human colony on the planet Argo has long explored and exploited the technology left behind by an extinct alien race. But then an archaeology team accidentally activates a terrible weapon...
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Would You Blow Up If Tossed into Space?
February 25th, 2008
There are a lot of myths, many perpetuated by movies with directors looking for more explosions, about what happens when someone is tossed out the airlock by Vogons or whatever nasty aliens are crewing the spaceship of doom. I did a little research about this last year for my science and science fiction class, but never wrote up the results as a coherent article.
Anna Gosline did, and the results are over at Scientific American. The short answer to the question I pose in the post title is “no,” but there are some gruesome effects that we understand from experiments and accidents.
There are some movies and TV shows that get it right. I’ll say this was one of the few events in EVENT HORIZON that made any sense.
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I always did wonder if that scene in Outland was remotely possible. It just seemed . . . too much.
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