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A rough calculation of how much it'd hurt (or not): Atmospheric pressure is 10.1N/cm^2, or 0.1N/mm^2. The hole is 2mm diameter, or ~3mm^2 in area, so the force over that area would be ~0.3N or roughly 30 grams.

It's not a lot of force. I'd be more worried about my skin sublimating, however.




I feel like they'll take a little anti-freezer burn over suffocation.

If only they had an inanimate carbon rod to block the hole!


Are they still taking duct tape up there with them?

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/duct-tape-saves-the-day


Apparently they have already used kapton tape on the hole.


"In Rod We Trust"


I'll let someone else have the fun doing the math, but I would guess his heat radiation (convection and conduction with vacuum are going to be negligible) would be on the order of milliwatts, which'll take an hour or so to change the temperature of 10g of skin by 1°


My guess is that he has some kind of glove on.




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