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The second link is pure crap, written by some douchebag from the poultry industry. Fabian Brockotter, a journalist. Clearly, he has lots of experience with animal physiology. Anoxia can't happen with nitrogen foam because there isn't any gas exchange, foam blocks it. With pure nitrogen, CO2 is exhaled as well as remnants of oxygen. Both gases are depleted. CO2 is not building up thus no panic, and oxygen depletion causes euphoria and audiovisual hallucinations. With foam, CO2 remains in the blood and builds up, triggering panic and pain.

I don't know if that's a credible source, but here I am. I almost suffocated with foam once. It felt like trying to push a very dense putty out of my airways. Luckily, it was only a small amount so I haven't passed out before I managed to remove it by self administered Heimlich maneuvers using a chair, and violent inhalations. I was close to passing out and I remember intense panic and pain. Quite horrible experience IMO. There are humane methods of mass killing poultry and they involve gradual exposure to controlled atmosphere. Foam is just pure laziness and cruelty.

Nope, inhaling foam is horrible. Foam clogs the lungs and completely disables the ventilation as it behaves like a fluid stopper. Also it's viscous and sticky enough that it prevents you from pushing it out by breathing alone. You'd think we exert great force with out diaphragm, but we don't. Falling into foam is, in regards to breathing, same as falling into water, except you can't float on it. It's one of the inhumane and usually illegal procedures for killing animals.

I'm kind of a veteran of this game and still had to google what "MPL" is. People, don't use acronyms unless they're super obvious...

Corset might seem like a good idea, but it's mislead. Lungs would not burst through the ribs. They would burst downwards, through the diaphragm. They don't need to fly out like in bad movies. Internal small rupture is enough to cause enormous pain and internal bleeding. Blood in lungs, oedema, pneumothorax... not fun. And sphyncters can't hold body pressure against zero pressure. You wouldn't poop or fart. You'd get a rectal prolapse. Oh, don't search for those photos if you're eating. I'm sorry, but the only fast way is to survive a slower hull breach is to curl inside of those NASA balls and wait. As for explosive decompression, you'd get injured right away and you'd have like 10 seconds of consciousness. Unpacking a ball and doing all that... yeah, you wouldn't make it. Oh, and receiving oxygen without removing carbon(IV) oxide is a recipe for death, too. CO2 buildup would first trigger panic via the carotid body, and then your blood buffer systems would overload. You'd die in agony.

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They've never beaten SpaceX. Blue Origin rocket goes up and down. Falcon 9 first stage pushes second stage+cargo into suborbital flight with a substantial downrange distance. Going into an arch means you need to considerably negate that arch and then do a precision landing on one spot (barge, etc.). Blue Origin just goes up and down. Trivial, compared to SpaceX, not even worth mentioning.

Sometimes there's a whole thread of replies, with several links. I don't want to sift through all of it. I hate reddit's layout profoundly and I can't help myself.

I've stumbled upon this scanned material. It has a lot of experimental data on cryogenic liquids. Surface tensions, enthropies, viscosities, etc. Some of the data was even examined by Willem Hendrik Keesom. Enjoy! https://www.bnl.gov/magnets/staff/gupta/cryogenic-data-handbook/index.htm

It's actually pretty dumb. If you can save that much of an airplane, then save the whole airplane. Detach the wings with the fuel.

You're not the only one baffled by stupid reddit.com

It's not a pointer. It's something over the Earth, protecting us. All hail the mighty white arrow thingy!

And I wouldn't want to be someone trapped in the room where that thing goes off. You'd suffocate in it. You can't swim on it, and you can't move it apart like sand. It would be a horrible death.

If it's lighter than Neptune, it might be an entirely new class of planetary bodies. Perhaps something like large version of icy satellites and dwarf planets. Given the circumstances, it might even have an actual phase boundary, a cryogenic ocean, something none of the giant planets have due to enormous temperatures inside of them, gradually turning matter into supercritical fluid.

I don't get it.

The world would indeed be a lot less fun if there weren't any morons like these inhabiting it.

I haven't seen you before. Are you a local?

Watched it few days ago. Bland, mindless kids' movie, nothing better than the rest of the movies. I really see nothing appealing in this franchise. I guess you either love it or you don't.

Lander? That won't happen, we can't do it. No way, absolutely no way for now. Flyby probe? Why not?

Those aren't Burans, but just mockup models. Buran was destroyed.

Whatever is the case, it's really dumb. I have nothing against false color images (Hubble's photos are mostly totally like that), but we should at least get basic information about it.

I've read it, but that's not walking. It's no different than sitting in a pod that grabs the surface and moves along it.

OK, here's the best approximation I could do. I've used the color from the real color image and applied it over the false color one. It's not monochrome, but it colorized the surrounding properly, and attenuated the pure red of the dark patches.

Too bad NASA used the false color image for that probable cryovolcano. I'm really annoyed by their lack of understanding of how the general public works. This is the most realistic color photo composite we have. I see no reason to release a false color image instead, with a misleading title.

Let's say it's not icy and that it could survive Earth-Moon perturbations. It would probably be an additional interesting target for unmanned landers. I'm not sure if it would attract people to land on it.