Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "Qxir" channel.

@bladerj whenever I designed something, that was my first and final consideration. I've not designed something that killed anyone yet and compensated. But, there are final costs to consider. How many billions of dollars do you want to spend to protect a worker? Who will only contribute millions of dollars to the economy at best. Yeah, it's that ugly and real. In this case, it was a total loss that was worth more than the damned platform. All, because three steps were skipped. Well, major steps. There were dozens of minor steps to go through. One burst of intracranial flatulence resulted in a mass death situation.
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Trust me, the thought process didn't even manage to get that far. We're talking supersonic escape of atmosphere and well, chest and abdominal cavity contents, which ended up in the masts.
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Nope, it all depends upon the pressure gradient. Explosive or gradual decompression at 30000 feet, fairly quick, not as fugly. A nine atmosphere environment and a two foot crescent hatch, fugly occurs, those inside get body wide hickies and blood that's pink from degraded lipids in the blood. No clue what idiots are going on about nitrogen, that happens on a small pressure differential, large, like atmosphere to zero or 9 atmosphere to atmosphere, minimal, the gas exchange processes work in reverse quite efficiently. All gas exchanges from the lungs are atmospheric gases - all of them. Oxygen, nitrogen, CO2, even frigging Argon.
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@dkx6841 it's a frequent enough thing to do, more to avoid pension payout than anything else.
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Then, check again a few more times. Never killed anyone that way and I was only dealing with drugs that could trivially kill a patient.
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Already saw them, long ago. Yeah, wasn't pretty at all, the microscopic was ugliest, but least recognizable for those unfamiliar with what normal blood and cellular samples look like.
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The proteins in their blood literally denatured, due to the severe pressure gradient, resulting in fat being readily apparent in the divers remains bloodstream. They didn't even get to know something went sideways. The Soyuz cosmonauts knew, tried to reach the valve to cut off the air loss, but it was unreachable and upon landing, only bruising and bleeding from the ears suggested a problem. Well, that and being quite dead. NASA research showed that universally, upon exposure to vacuum or its equivalent for us, the entire gas exchange system voids all atmospheric gases from the blood through the lungs rapidly, exhausting O2 and CO2, as well as nitrogen (80% of our atmosphere), fibrillation begins in the heard, after 90 seconds, no experimental subject survived defibrillation and resuscitation attempts. Respect significant pressure differentials, for they'll not respect you at all - ever. But, you won't explode, even under 9 atmospheres to zero atmospheres of hard space vacuum, our skin is far tougher than our internal tenders are. Or more simply, the universe doesn't like you, take care that it doesn't kill you when you venture outside of what would be survivable - always. Respect a danger always, protect against it always, never, ever grow complacent. That won't get you to even survive as tame an environment as Mars, but you'll be at a good starting point. Humans have survived, as found by some misadventures here on Earth, about a minute under hard vacuum conditions, full body exposure, longer with a forgotten or lost/penetrated glove. Think cartoon bulbous hand, hurting like hell and gone, twice and better larger in size for a glove. Gene survived that mess, a few hours later, he was fine and amazingly, didn't have a full hand hickey. Just most of it. So, follow the checklist. I've designed a few, they account for a five star hangover, sleep deprived for a full month and being ill for a reason. Been there, done that under far less risk conditions.
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@silent_stalker3687 nothing, hair won't denature from explosive decompression. But, they likely didn't even know anything happened, the pressure extreme basically being instant. Even money, they didn't get to register the sound of the air blasting out of the hatch.
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No, the crew wouldn't have sensed anything. The air doesn't catch fire, but even paper would flash to fire in the brief instant before a wall of water would extinguish it. Basically, all hollow cavities would instantly be crushed, so chest, spongy bone, sinuses, even one's skull would instantly collapse, with the effect of basically several cases of high explosive going off all around you. There might be one safe place, sort of, inside of the nuclear reactor and frankly, that'd be an extremely dubious choice. ;)
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Not much of a stretch for murder charges on the fleeing suspect, as any death that occurs during the commission of a crime becomes a murder charge. If someone dodged the fleeing suspect and had a fatal heart attack, legally that is murder. But, there is the takeaway from the NTSB, which was spot on. Avoid the feeding frenzy idiocy. Additionally, there's precisely zero chance that the one helicopter could've saw the incoming helicopter, it's literally on a blind spot for aircraft. The pilot would've needed x-ray vision to see the bird coming in from the off rear.
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