To be fair. The ships just dedocked from one another. So Newton's Law of Motion dictates they would have been running along the exact same vector until one of the two ships enacted a force to change that. Also the distance was just as large as the docking clamp. So as far as Niomi is concerned, she just needs to run straight from the center of the door. And she'll hit the door of the other ship.
I don't think Cyn died... But if he did it would have been because he still had his lungs full of oxygen. If his lungs were full of oxygen, both his lungs and his heart would have exploded immediately from the force of the air being ripped out of his body.
Actually you see Naomi breathe in before opening the door.
The last torpedo has a blue light and it immediately flickers out.
Ahh good catch there, so it's still in playThe last torpedo has a blue light and it immediately flickers out.
E: Which I'm pretty sure represents the blue flame of the Epstein drive like ships have.
The last torpedo has a blue light and it immediately flickers out.
E: Which I'm pretty sure represents the blue flame of the Epstein drive like ships have.
There are many more random space rocks moving just as fast. Space is *really* big.
That sounds good. I am not committed to picking the show apart or anything. I do wonder a liiiitle bit about why a scuttled ship still has oxygen aboard when it's such a precious, rationed commodity BUT luckily there are much better things to worry about in life at the moment! And frankly I am grateful for how good this show is! Dominique Tipper is just fantastic. And I just love the tripartite politics of Earth vs Mars vs the Belt — such interesting, familiar echoes of the Cold War and colonialism to set this conflict in. And yet it's also a refreshing change from settings where there's an obvious free side set against an obvious oppressive one —there's reason to admire and sympathize with and be frustrated by all the sides. And Marco's critique has enough truth in it to make his goals just sympathetic and plausible enough, instead of being purely evil (despite being an utter monster, of course). I'm glad for the week-long break to think about it, too. A welcome distraction!
This makes the most sense. The ships have thermal scanners and you need atmosphere to act as a thermal insulator and medium to transfer heat. Otherwise it'll drop down to space ambient and get picked up if scanned.
Not to mention. They got fancy air scrubbers and life support systems. They can probably go for years without restocking, like a nuclear submarine
I suppose it's the cliffhanger element of it? Not knowing if Naomi survives or not. Not that i agree. The ending was great and close to how I imagined it in the book.
It would take 15-30 seconds to die in the vacuum due to hypoxia. She breathed in just before and may have been doing breathing exercises beforehand to maximise the amount of oxygen she could intake, plus she had that drug she injected herself with. It's feasible that she could have survived that exposure without permanent damage and death.
Apparently if the exposure period is fairly short, the main concern is just running out of oxygen:
Indeed, but with 24th century medical science, the damage will be mitigated somewhat.
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Holden has been walking around with super cancer for awhile now, so she'll be alright.
Yep. Even Amos had some of his fingers regrown. Not to mention the life expectancy increasing drugs. 24th century medical science is top notch.
Huh. My understanding was space temperature is absolute zero so you'd first freeze to death. If not your body would implode due to pressure.Apparently if the exposure period is fairly short, the main concern is just running out of oxygen:
Can you survive in space without a spacesuit?
In the new sci-fi film Sunshine, an astronaut named Mace must leave his spacecraft without a protective suit. He makes it through his exposure with...slate.com
