• abcd@feddit.org
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    I never thought about this before. But you could absolutely drown in a huge water bubble surrounding your head in space.

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      In space you’ll even die in your sleep because off the bubble of exhaled air/CO2 - ventilation is mandatory, else you gonna suffocate

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        Wat.

        Edit: oh dang.

        His second EVA on 16 July 2013 was terminated after only 1 hour and 32 minutes, when the helmet of his Extravehicular Mobility Unit suit started filling with water.[14][15] Water in his helmet posed the danger of drowning and made his return to the airlock even more difficult, as orbital sunset had occurred just before he started to return.[16] Engineers found that contamination had clogged one of the suit’s filters, causing water from the suit’s cooling system to back up.[17] On 15 January 2016, astronaut Timothy Kopra experienced a water leak in his spacesuit.[18]

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      Remember in The Little Mermaid when her air bubble kept getting smaller and smaller? That, but in reverse: you have a little bubble of water stuck to your face and you know as soon as you try to breathe, you drown…

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      It almost happened to someone doing a spacewalk, but thankfully he lived. A coolant line burst or something, and started filling the helmet with water