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Subject: Re: human reaction to vacuum
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Date: Wed, 18-Dec-85 01:15:36 EST
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There has been a question of whether humans explode when subjected to vacuum.  
Experience with Scuba Diving (I know slightly unrelated) indicates that holding
ones breath would indeed cause an explosion.  Releasing breath would probably 
only result in a case of the bends, and in vacuum suffocation in short order.
It might be hard to react quickly enough to explosive decompression.

JM7