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PimpMacula
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9. "RE: His head would have exploded the pod bay door open."
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Tue Nov-03-09 08:19 AM by PimpMacula

  

          

where are you guys getting this "exploding" shit from?

according to NASA, the movie still remains technically accurate.

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/970603.html

If you don't try to hold your breath, exposure to space for half a minute or so is unlikely to produce permanent injury. Holding your breath is likely to damage your lungs, something scuba divers have to watch out for when ascending, and you'll have eardrum trouble if your Eustachian tubes are badly plugged up, but theory predicts -- and animal experiments confirm -- that otherwise, exposure to vacuum causes no immediate injury. You do not explode. Your blood does not boil. You do not freeze. You do not instantly lose consciousness.

Various minor problems (sunburn, possibly "the bends", certainly some swelling of skin and underlying tissue) start after ten seconds or so. At some point you lose consciousness from lack of oxygen. Injuries accumulate. After perhaps one or two minutes, you're dying. The limits are not really known.

You do not explode and your blood does not boil because of the containing effect of your skin and circulatory system. You do not instantly freeze because, although the space environment is typically very cold, heat does not transfer away from a body quickly. Loss of consciousness occurs only after the body has depleted the supply of oxygen in the blood. If your skin is exposed to direct sunlight without any protection from its intense ultraviolet radiation, you can get a very bad sunburn.

  

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lol @ 2001 still being the most realistic space movie after 40+ years [View all] , PimpMacula, Mon Nov-02-09 12:27 PM
 
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AND anotha reason why its listed as the AFI's #1 sci-fi flim of all time...
Nov 02nd 2009
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it's another reason why sci fi movies basically all suck
Nov 02nd 2009
2
i believe there's really only one glaring mistake.
Nov 02nd 2009
3
Yup. He woulda exploded.
Nov 02nd 2009
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His head would have exploded the pod bay door open.
Nov 02nd 2009
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           I was saying it more for comedic effect, but yes
Nov 03rd 2009
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RE: i believe there's really only one glaring mistake.
Nov 02nd 2009
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      ^ Hasn't seen 2010 yet.
Nov 02nd 2009
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           RE: ^ Hasn't seen 2010 yet.
Nov 02nd 2009
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RE: lol @ 2001 still being the most realistic space movie after 40+ year...
Nov 03rd 2009
11
fuck it, i'll say it... Kubrick is the GOAT
Nov 03rd 2009
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RE: fuck it, i'll say it... Kubrick is the GOAT
Nov 03rd 2009
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      RE: fuck it, i'll say it... Kubrick is the GOAT
Nov 03rd 2009
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           The greatest argument for Kubrick as GOAT is his versatility.
Nov 03rd 2009
15
people who deny his greatness amuse me......check his portfolio
Nov 04th 2009
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That may have more to do with Arthur Clarke's involvement.
Nov 04th 2009
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