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Going outside routinely is dangerous on Mars. It takes a penny sized hole in your suit and you're dead.
by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
Going outside routinely is dangerous on Mars. It takes a penny sized hole in your suit and you're dead.
- ceejayoz 10y agoI doubt that's the case. Suits will be tough, and undoubtedly come with patch kits, and folks will use the buddy system. A penny-sized hole would give time to patch, and suits would likely be designed to compartmentalize in a leak. In a true worst-case scenario, chimp studies in the 1970s showed they could survive several minutes of total vacuum. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/survival-in-space-unprotected-possible/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/survival-in-space...
- M_Grey 10y agoHow long a human would survive is one thing. How much medical care they'd need is another. They'd be on Mars, not Earth, and I imagine being a quadruple amputee on Mars would effectively be a death sentence.