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"the hole is covered using Alexander Gerst's finger for now" - https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/9bi49u/the_iss_is_currently_experiencing_a_slow/e535dlh/

"the hole is covered using Alexander Gerst's finger for now" - https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/9bi49u/the_iss_is_currently_experiencing_a_slow/e535dlh/ https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/9bi49u/the_iss_is_cu...

village-idiot 8y ago
Any word on when the Dutch are going to offer him honorary citizenship?
- twright 8y ago
  Sorry, can you explain the joke?
  - teraflop 8y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Brinker,_or_The_Silver_Skates#Popular_culture:_the_legend_of_the_boy_and_the_dike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Brinker,_or_The_Silver_Sk...
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userbinator 8y ago
A rough calculation of how much it'd hurt (or not): Atmospheric pressure is 10.1N/cm^2, or 0.1N/mm^2. The hole is 2mm diameter, or ~3mm^2 in area, so the force over that area would be ~0.3N or roughly 30 grams. It's not a lot of force. I'd be more worried about my skin sublimating, however.
- SketchySeaBeast 8y ago
  I feel like they'll take a little anti-freezer burn over suffocation. If only they had an inanimate carbon rod to block the hole!
  - Varcht 8y ago
    Are they still taking duct tape up there with them? https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/duct-tape-saves-the-day https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/duct-tape-saves-the-day
    - SketchySeaBeast 8y ago
      Apparently they have already used kapton tape on the hole.
  - plants 8y ago
    "In Rod We Trust"
- datpuz 8y ago
  My guess is that he has some kind of glove on.
- Rebelgecko 8y ago
  I'll let someone else have the fun doing the math, but I would guess his heat radiation (convection and conduction with vacuum are going to be negligible) would be on the order of milliwatts, which'll take an hour or so to change the temperature of 10g of skin by 1°
nodja 8y ago
There's not many people that can say that their finger was in "direct contact" with space.
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village-idiot 8y ago

Any word on when the Dutch are going to offer him honorary citizenship?

twright 8y ago
Sorry, can you explain the joke?
- teraflop 8y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Brinker,_or_The_Silver_Skates#Popular_culture:_the_legend_of_the_boy_and_the_dike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Brinker,_or_The_Silver_Sk...
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userbinator 8y ago

A rough calculation of how much it'd hurt (or not): Atmospheric pressure is 10.1N/cm^2, or 0.1N/mm^2. The hole is 2mm diameter, or ~3mm^2 in area, so the force over that area would be ~0.3N or roughly 30 grams. It's not a lot of force. I'd be more worried about my skin sublimating, however.

SketchySeaBeast 8y ago
I feel like they'll take a little anti-freezer burn over suffocation. If only they had an inanimate carbon rod to block the hole!
- Varcht 8y ago
  Are they still taking duct tape up there with them? https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/duct-tape-saves-the-day https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/duct-tape-saves-the-day
  - SketchySeaBeast 8y ago
    Apparently they have already used kapton tape on the hole.
- plants 8y ago
  "In Rod We Trust"
datpuz 8y ago
My guess is that he has some kind of glove on.
Rebelgecko 8y ago
I'll let someone else have the fun doing the math, but I would guess his heat radiation (convection and conduction with vacuum are going to be negligible) would be on the order of milliwatts, which'll take an hour or so to change the temperature of 10g of skin by 1°

nodja 8y ago

There's not many people that can say that their finger was in "direct contact" with space.

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