Talk:Sky People/Crime and Punishment/@comment-173.226.71.162-20150505135742/@comment-173.226.71.162-20150506161052

Modern spacesuits (like the Russian ORLAN DMX suit he was wearing) are fully pressurized like balloons. Any puncture anywhere would cause total loss of pressure. The failure of Jaha's visor would have completely depressurized his suit almost immediately, but as long as he exhaled as soon as it shattered (to avoid aforementioned barotrauma of the lungs) he could have stayed conscious (albeit extremely uncomfortably) long enough to get inside as he did. Maybe as long as thirty seconds depending on a number of unknown physical characteristics.

That was actually a very realistic scene. More realistic than the earlier scene of him contemplating having to EVA while standing in a no-longer rotating Go-Sci that would no longer have simulated gravity (and even if it were rotating, he'd be standing on the ceiling since the centripetal force would pull OUTWARD towards the edge of the ring).