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Tribaal t1_jdmi2v5 wrote

Reply to comment by The_Flurr in TIL: Thanks to poor internal communication at NASA, information about a spacesuit water leak wasn't properly communicated. Later, Astronaut Luca Parmitano almost drowned on a July, 2013 ISS space walk, his helmet filling with several liters of water before they could get him back inside. by OvidPerl

Assuming it is possible for astronauts to open their EVA suits... and close them back by themselves 😋

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BOOTS31 t1_jdmltxo wrote

All while their blood boils and starts coming out of every orifice.

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The_Flurr t1_jdmsa1k wrote

That's not what happens in real life. Vacuum will fuck with your bodily fluids, causing bruising and bleeding, but it won't explode out of you. The human body is actually pretty good at containing pressure.

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Beli_Mawrr t1_jdmomji wrote

You could poke a hole and then plug it if you wanted to. If you ended up just plugging it with whatever nearest, including skin, you would end up with a hickey but nothing else.

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Paladin327 t1_jdn26qf wrote

It’s not like poking a small hole in a space suit would cause instant decompression of the entire suit. The difference in pressure isn’t big enough for that. There was a 2mm hole on a spacecraft docked with the ISS, and it was determined that was no danger to the station and could easily be repaired

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Beli_Mawrr t1_jdn4bb1 wrote

Right, that's what I'm saying. Pop a tiny hole in it, Watney-style, then the vacuum of space hopefully sucks the water out through it. When it's done, plug the hole again. If it gets bad again, open 'er back up!

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Riff316 t1_jdnsk8u wrote

Yeah, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield had something in his eyes during an EVA causing them to fill up with contaminated tears, essentially blinding him. Houston’s solution was for him to vent his helmet and suck the tears out into space.

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