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[-] abcd@feddit.org 25 points 2 weeks ago

I never thought about this before. But you could absolutely drown in a huge water bubble surrounding your head in space.

[-] naeap@sopuli.xyz 27 points 2 weeks ago

In space you'll even die in your sleep because off the bubble of exhaled air/CO2 - ventilation is mandatory, else you gonna suffocate

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 8 points 2 weeks ago

Remember in The Little Mermaid when her air bubble kept getting smaller and smaller? That, but in reverse: you have a little bubble of water stuck to your face and you know as soon as you try to breathe, you drown...

[-] prettybunnys@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

What would win, a little bubble of water stuck to my face or one sucky boy lip motion

[-] Steve@startrek.website 6 points 2 weeks ago

Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano Nearly died this way

[-] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Wat.

Edit: oh dang.

His second EVA on 16 July 2013 was terminated after only 1 hour and 32 minutes, when the helmet of his Extravehicular Mobility Unit suit started filling with water.[14][15] Water in his helmet posed the danger of drowning and made his return to the airlock even more difficult, as orbital sunset had occurred just before he started to return.[16] Engineers found that contamination had clogged one of the suit's filters, causing water from the suit's cooling system to back up.[17] On 15 January 2016, astronaut Timothy Kopra experienced a water leak in his spacesuit.[18]

[-] MrShankles@reddthat.com 5 points 2 weeks ago

It almost happened to someone doing a spacewalk, but thankfully he lived. A coolant line burst or something, and started filling the helmet with water

[-] M137@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

https://www.space.com/22485-italian-astronaut-spacesuit-leak-video.html

It took way to long to find something decent about this, so many shit articles and videos. I could probably find something better with more time but I gotta sleep, this is the best I could do and it's good enough IMO.