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Oh, darn! I could only just survive for 1 min, 29 seconds (and all of it, I am sure, would be pure hell). Plus, I think I’d be dead after only 31 seconds, or so. I think I lied on the test. It’s a compulsion, I guess. Or, maybe I answered wrong, by *mistake*. My survival time is pretty close to yours, and you are a trained, crazy person - um, I mean, trained Runner - and I am a person who hates exercise, pretty much.
“The pressure in your veins would rise until your heart no longer had the capacity to pump blood, at which point you’d die.”
I wish they wouldn’t rub it in, this way. I also disliked reading that my eardrums would burst. I can’t even imagine how my salivia would look, all boiling, and stuff. Jeez! Then again, this way of demise Could be the answers to my prayers! (The Tsunami scenario was too complicated, anyway). All I need to do is to find some unsuspecting spaceship crew that would allow me on board…
Only 1 min 17 seconds. You should warn folks that they need to hit “pass” about 7 times though to make it through all the sales pitches and personal info grabs. Looking forward to my weekly WWDTM fix tomorrow.
During Gemini, I was reviewing some footage of chimpanzes being hit by a vacuum. They all lasted 3 minutes or more. This was to see what might happen during an eva and to see how quickly the rescue team had if a vacuum chamber failed. They found that the chimps performance was noticibly enhance afterward.
When I told this to one of the Apollo astronauts, he said. “Whatever you do, don’t tell the flight suregons. They might use it to try to improve our performance.”
June 12th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Oh, darn! I could only just survive for 1 min, 29 seconds (and all of it, I am sure, would be pure hell). Plus, I think I’d be dead after only 31 seconds, or so. I think I lied on the test. It’s a compulsion, I guess. Or, maybe I answered wrong, by *mistake*. My survival time is pretty close to yours, and you are a trained, crazy person - um, I mean, trained Runner - and I am a person who hates exercise, pretty much.
“The pressure in your veins would rise until your heart no longer had the capacity to pump blood, at which point you’d die.”
I wish they wouldn’t rub it in, this way. I also disliked reading that my eardrums would burst. I can’t even imagine how my salivia would look, all boiling, and stuff. Jeez! Then again, this way of demise Could be the answers to my prayers! (The Tsunami scenario was too complicated, anyway). All I need to do is to find some unsuspecting spaceship crew that would allow me on board…
June 13th, 2008 at 8:35 am
Only 1 min 17 seconds. You should warn folks that they need to hit “pass” about 7 times though to make it through all the sales pitches and personal info grabs. Looking forward to my weekly WWDTM fix tomorrow.
June 14th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
But the real question is: how long can Mel Brooks survive in the vacuum of space?
August 18th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
[…] Tip o’ the spacesuit helmet (literally in this case) to Peter Sagal. […]
August 18th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Only 1 minute and 17 seconds here. Damn. You might have time to laugh at me a few times after I croak, Peter…
August 18th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
During Gemini, I was reviewing some footage of chimpanzes being hit by a vacuum. They all lasted 3 minutes or more. This was to see what might happen during an eva and to see how quickly the rescue team had if a vacuum chamber failed. They found that the chimps performance was noticibly enhance afterward.
When I told this to one of the Apollo astronauts, he said. “Whatever you do, don’t tell the flight suregons. They might use it to try to improve our performance.”