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The nightmare of drowning in a water bubble in a microgravity enviornment
I never thought about this before. But you could absolutely drown in a huge water bubble surrounding your head in space.
In space you'll even die in your sleep because off the bubble of exhaled air/CO2 - ventilation is mandatory, else you gonna suffocate
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...
What would win, a little bubble of water stuck to my face or one sucky boy lip motion
Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano Nearly died this way
Wat.
Edit: oh dang.
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
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.