@Hosch250 Given that the carbon dioxide is getting stripped at the same rate shouldn't you stay conscious longer than that, I thought it was the gas imbalance that knocked people out long before the actually lack of oxygen became an issue.
@Hosch250 Actually it was in a book that I read, some space construction workers got trapped and had to do a bare-skin transfer, the thinking was that until you're blood got on a rolling boil, about the 2 minute mark you just felt horribly tight and uncomfortable.
>Also, the blood would boil (yes, boil) as the oxygen in it was forced
>out, and blood would erupt from various places, such as the eyes and
>ears.
You've been watching too many movies. The Soyuz 11 cosmonauts spent
several minutes in vacuum when their capsule lost pressure before reentry.
Their bodies showed so little damage that the recovery crew started CPR,
and it took a careful investigation to establish the cause of death (they'd
also spent a then-unprecedented 24 days in space, and initial speculation
A normal day in the Factory Floor: Is baby blood the equivalent to broccoli for vampires? Which liquid should be boil to get the superior temperature scale? Would your blood start boiling in space?
And once again I wonder what people would think if they randomly walked into this room and the first thing they see are multiple starred messages, each containing the phrase "baby blood".
Granted, normally the phrase is not "baby blood", but it's not too unusual for this room.
@dot_Sp0T Thanks, but I wouldn't be too sure. Most votes likely come from people mainly on the main site and those will see a lot of other names more often in answers/questions.
@Ash Well, depending on air pressure, you could boil for quite a while and be pretty comfortable, if it's low enough. IIRC it's impossible to cook potatoes at very high altitude, as the boiling water never gets hot enough to actually cook the potato.
and @Secespitus wants to control your healthcare and force you to use nuclear power to destroy moons. Protect your chemistry and anti-matter! Don't vote for him.
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@MontyWild's been around for quite some time, although they've been a bit less active than they used to - they've been pretty involved in the site since the start.
Some animals take on a single partner, possibly for life, while others have multiple partners over their lifetime, possibly even at the same time. What are the advantages to each approach, and how much is conscious choice verses instinct?
@FoxElemental Sec has 13k rep. I imagine casual voters who haven't been following meta etc would tend to default to higher rep candidates so I'm not surprised by the result. In fact it's extremely impressive that he got as close as he did since only Monica has ever been elected with significantly less than 20k rep and she was already a pro-tem so had incumbent advantage.
@James Basically this. On average there is one every year (and if we need another mod for some reason before a year they sometimes offer it to the runners up from the previous election rather than running a new one) but it's done as needed not on any fixed schedule.
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Some animals take on a single partner, possibly for life, while others have multiple partners over their lifetime, possibly even at the same time. What are the advantages to each approach, and how much is conscious choice verses instinct?
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