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I just want to point out that in Event Horizon, Baby bear is explicitly told to exhale as much air as possible before the airlock decompresses, at least in the movie.

During a [[TheSimpsons Simpsons]] haloween episode, Homer is kidnapped by the Tentacled Aliens. Clinton and another politician (I don't remember who)are also there, and Homer Push The Button, throwing them into space. They die but do not explode

Homer does explode at the end of the {{Y2K}} episode, though. --DocumentN
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{{Vulpy}}: I started to add another example of an aversion, but then I realized...that section's long enough. Is playing ExplosiveDecompression with straight HollywoodScience becoming a DiscreditedTrope?

LargeBluntObject: Let's hope so.

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{{Rissa}}: Cut this from the Red Dwarf example, too much "Actually".

** This is the same series that gave us genetically engineered couches. It's not meant to be realistic, and goes out of its way to make that explicit.

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{{Carltheshivan}}: Has any human ever actually been in a vacuum unprotected for several minutes? If not, how do we really know what would happen?

MatthewTheRaven: Nonhuman animals have been frequently exposed to vacuum. Refer to the ''Bioastronautics Data Book, Second edition'' (NASA SP-3006), which discusses animal exposure to vacuum. It supports the "ebullism, hypoxia, lung rupturing due to air content, and swelling" bit, and it states that your blood would not boil and you would not freeze.

In adition, Humans have been exposed to decompression and near-vacuum conditions, rather than hard vacuum (Roth, in NASA's ''Rapid (Explosive) Decompression Emergencies in Pressure-Suited Subjects''). In 1966, a NASA technician at Houston was accidentally decompressed in a spacesuit test to near vacuum conditions, losing consciousness in about 15 seconds. He was restored to conscsiousness after 30 seconds of vacuum exposure. There has been an autopsy of a decompression incident after 2-3 minutes of vacuum exposure in an atmospheric chamber, the 1971 decompression acident on the Soyuz-11, and several high-altitude balloon parachute-jumps.
Read more about these cases here: http://www.geoffreylandis.com/vacuum.html.

"It is very unlikely that a human suddenly exposed to a vacuum would have more than 5 to 10 seconds to help himself. If immediate help is at hand, although one's appearance and condition will be grave, it is reasonable to assume that recompression to a tolerable pressure (200 mm Hg, 3.8 psia) within 60 to 90 seconds could result in survival, and possibly in rather rapid recovery." - Bioastronautics Data Book.

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* Most famously exploited in Tom Godwin's short story ''TheColdEquations'', revolving around a stowaway girl that has to get ejected from the ship or else all its passengers will die. Its most memorable scene involves the captain watching the girl's shriveled husk fly away from the ship. Of course, SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay.

I have this book in front of me, and this doesn't speak of seeing her body at all. He's going near light speed. The only line is "He heard a rumble, as of a large mass hitting the lock on the way out". ~~~~Adrenfreak