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From: newman@fortune.UUCP (Steven Newman)
Newsgroups: net.movies,net.space
Subject: Vaccumm and people exploding...
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Date: Wed, 19-Oct-83 16:45:16 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 19 16:45:16 1983
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  As has already been mentioned, people (vertebrates in general)
can survive *moderatly* long exposure to hard vaccumm.

  A surprisingly good coverage of this topic is in the unlikly
source of a novel entitled "Space Doctor"(author unknown) where
the term "vac-bite" is coined. Seems that the sub-cutanious
oedema, and rupturing of the cappilaries causes a condition
similar to frostbite!

  Steve Newman