New Horizons brzi proti Plutonu

EDIT: ok, očitno gre zavest malo prej...

For example, in 1965 a technician inside a vacuum chamber at Johnson Space Center in Houston accidentally depressurized his space suit by disrupting a hose. After 12 to 15 seconds he lost consciousness. He regained it at 27 seconds, after his suit was repressurized to about half that of sea level. The man reported that his last memory before blacking out was of the moisture on his tongue beginning to boil as well as a loss of taste sensation that lingered for four days following the accident, but he was otherwise unharmed.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic...

Vojska je povecini dovolj korajzna da sprobava sve-i-svasta na svojih rekrutih (od njih imamo npr. potapljaske tablice za civile, vojaki so pa na "hard way" probavali kje so meje). Mogoce so preverjali tudi za vakuum do koliko se da zdrzat...

If you ever find yourself exposed to the near vacuum of space, so long as you don't try to hold your breath, which would result in your lungs rupturing and thus pretty well guaranteed that the incident would be fatal, you'll likely remain conscious for about 10-15 seconds, with perhaps half that being useful consciousness. After that, you'll be fine as long as you're placed back in a pressurized environment within about 90-180 seconds.

These numbers are based on both human accidents that have occurred and on experiments run on animals. For instance, in 1965, researchers at the Brooks Air Force Base in Texas ran a series of experiments on man's best friend. They exposed the dogs to 1/380th normal atmospheric pressure for varying amounts of time to see how the animals' bodies would react.

In most cases, the dogs survived without permanent damage, so long as the time frame was less than 90 seconds. Once they pushed it to two minutes, the dogs typically suffered cardiac arrest and died.

Ko sem preračunal, je res malo ... čudno. 120kg?

_{But don't blame me, blame the source. Newscientist.}