Crooklyn's Deep Thoughts
Posted: June 27, 2008
Category: Nothing in particular
Inspired by watching some old episodes of Saturday Night Live, I decided to start a new segment called Crooklyn's Deep Thoughts.
Just sit back and give your honest answers to the question.
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Imagine that you are a astronaut doing a routine spacewalk outside of the space shuttle. All of a sudden a out of control meteor hit the shuttle destroying it, but leaves you stranded in space with at least 2 hours of oxygen left in your reserved tanks.
Now my question is: Do you wait out the 2 hours and hope for rescue hoping that seem slim to none but quite possible or do you end it quickly by just taking off your space helmet?
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okay? umm I would probably spend the two hours talking to God
i would radio back and have them call my wife and kids and put them on and say my final goodbyes and then end it
helmet off
I would never intentionally end my own life. I would use the two hours to make my peace.
err, if i could radio, id do that and try to get some help
so im going w/ the 2 hours
I would use those two hours to party with the aliens
lol
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Mos Def!!!!!!!!
Quote By theevol1
same here. I couldn't give up if there was a TINY TINY chance that I could be saved.
i wouldnt give up because id rather not burn for eternity....but thats just my opinion
why not wait? waiting couldn't hurt anything, even if it was impossible for someone to get up to space in two hours
yeah exactly....and even if nobody was coming
twiddling your thumbs cant be that bad....lol
I would spend the next 2 hours wishing I could play one more game of Asteroids
I'd take off my helmet. The anticipation of death would be too much to stand for two hours. The whole time I'd be wondering if my oxygen supply was about to run out. I'd rather just take off my helmet and end it there.
I would take it off just to see what would happen in space, I bet my head would explode. And yes I could not stand knowing I was going to die in 2 hours.
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Actually, I remember looking that up once…
It turns out you can take off your helmet for about 10 seconds, and put it back on and be just fine. After about 10 seconds your blood begins to boil, you might lose your vision and run the risk of passing out. I might be off a little on the time but it's something like that. It might actually be almost 60 seconds till you pass out. I don't remember.
I can see that this is a thought provoking topic so i think i will try to come up with more
I'd wait and when the oxygen got low take off the helmet. You never know.
This became a very intellectual topic
Please Mayo, bring us more
Quote By GibsonsBoobie
Seconded.
The helmet would come off and I would start screaming any holy/unholy invocations to any deities I could remember until the goo started spraying out of my ears.
Whichever One answered would get a new acolyte.
Otherwise, I'll see you all in Heck.
Quote By GibsonsBoobie
It turns out you can take off your helmet for about 10 seconds, and put it back on and be just fine. After about 10 seconds your blood begins to boil, you might lose your vision and run the risk of passing out. I might be off a little on the time but it's something like that. It might actually be almost 60 seconds till you pass out. I don't remember.
Actually, I heard a long time ago from my first husband that it depends on where you were in space, but generally speaking, the part of your head facing to the sun would instantly incinerate, and the part away from the sun would instantly freeze. Instant death though. IDK how reliable that is, but it was what he went around telling people. (yea, he had conversations like this with strangers a lot.)
I'm pretty sure you'd suffer some kind of compression/ decompression problem at the very least though.
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I'm pretty sure you'd suffer some kind of compression/ decompression problem at the very least though.
Actually, space is a giant vacuum, so every oriface in/on your body would have the space removed from it, and you wold be "sucked inside out." That is the decompression you are talking about.
Deep space death, sounds horrible to me!
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i think i would be keeping mine on, lol
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Deep space death, sounds horrible to me!
and this is the exact reason why
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Please Mayo, bring us more
most def i will just have think some up
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I'm pretty sure you'd suffer some kind of compression/ decompression problem at the very least though.
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Deep space death, sounds horrible to me!
This sparked my curiosity once again, and I spent a little time on Google.
What I found was that astronauts have been accidentally exposed to vacuums from time to time during testing. Because of the lack of pressure, all the moisture from their mouth evaporates, and their body swells a little. After a while, they might get the bends because of the lack of pressure. If an astronaut has air in his lungs when he's exposed, it could cause major harm to his lungs. As long as they open their mouth, or breathe out before they're exposed, they're fine.
In actual outer space, the sun would cause severe sun burn immediately, but the sources I found didn't say anything about instant incineration.
Sources:
http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/atmosphere/q0291.shtml
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=7
i would wait out the two hours and enjoy em YOURE IN SPACE how many people get to be in space. I would go to space this instant even if i knew that it was a sure thing that i would never come back
Ok next one I didn't make up myself but I borrow it:
"You discover that your wonderful one year old child is, because of a mix up at the hospital, is not yours. Would you want to exchange the child to correct the mistake?"
Why or why not?
yes. the baby isnt mine, which means it wouldnt have anything in common with me, or possibly look like me. lol
I believe I would like to keep the baby, but than again you would have to look at the other family's perspective on it, because a decision like that would not only lie in your hands but in two seperate parties. IMO, I would like to keep the child that I changed diapers for, and feed, and woke up in the middle of the night to settle it down from crying. It wouldn't matter if the baby wasn't mine gene wise...I would still consider it my child.
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Deep space death, sounds horrible to me!
LOL decompression sucks!
Get it? huh? huh??
And the baby one is pretty easy- it's only a year old- you give it back. Yeah you've bonded, but can you really choose to give up your OWN child?
There was a Days of our Lives story line like this once, a long time ago, lol. I think both families tried to get their kid back while keeping the other.
I'd give it back. If it was ever discovered that the babies were swapped later, a family court would probably end up giving custody to the biological parents if they tried to get the baby back. I can only imagine how difficult that would be for a kid. There was a Law & Order on a similar story.
Besides which- one day the child's life can be saved by having the family medical history known. That's a no brainer, I think.
Quote By PSORaine
why does it not surprise me that you watch that show
Hit my boosters and burn up in the atomsphere while listening to "touch the Sky" on my Zune. (better to burn out than fade away)
Quote By Repo Man 360
I think thats a great...GREAT idea.
"Alright Lord...Here I Come" would be my final words
that would be one hell of a way to go out!!
"I'm reaaddddy, I'm reaaddy for the big ride bbbbabbeee!!!!" Quote said by Nicholas Cage in the begin of the movie showdown with John Travolta in the movie Face Off
but wouldnt it be the same speed of death either way
because in both you would suffocate
Quote By kiddcartel
I don't anymore... I haven't since that was the storyline...
In truth I only watched it cause there was nothing else on when I was waiting for Passions, which came on right after DOOL!
Faceoff was a good movie, I think.