BOOTS31 t1_jdmltxo wrote on March 25, 2023 at 3:00 PM

Reply to comment by Tribaal in TIL: Thanks to poor internal communication at NASA, information about a spacesuit water leak wasn't properly communicated. Later, Astronaut Luca Parmitano almost drowned on a July, 2013 ISS space walk, his helmet filling with several liters of water before they could get him back inside. by OvidPerl

All while their blood boils and starts coming out of every orifice.

The_Flurr t1_jdmsa1k wrote on March 25, 2023 at 3:46 PM

That's not what happens in real life. Vacuum will fuck with your bodily fluids, causing bruising and bleeding, but it won't explode out of you. The human body is actually pretty good at containing pressure.

effemeris t1_jdn20ud wrote on March 25, 2023 at 4:55 PM

Yep, the real risk is getting The Bends