[TML] How long can you survive in the vacuum of space?

[Richard Aiken]

On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Tom Naro <tomnaro at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Now if you want to go the trouble of translating all of the aberrant cases into traveller terms - go for it - it might be fun to read.  However, your re-designed humans are not really humans any more - so are you still playing traveller?  Go ahead - make some freak human that can survive unprotected for minutes (heck you may as well make it hours) in space - but the rest of us will not be able to relate to him.  (When we saw Bowman blast out of the pod into the airlock - we all thought "my god that guy has guts."  I hardly think we are going to feel the same way about your mutant since he would never be in danger.)
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> In any case, it is still very unlikely that humans could adapt to survive long term in a vacuum and still be called human.
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> Lets face it people - space is a dangerous place. Be cautious. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Amen.

Doug, dear heart . . . can you please give up now?  For game purposes,
I'm thinking Tom has conclusively proved that the average Traveller
character has ten (10) seconds to do something in a vacuum situation.
Less than one round, in most versions of the game.

Of course, in my next game, I'm using GURPS-like one-second rounds . .
. . <evil grin>

-- 
Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident." Robert A. Heinlein