Bad Science Looks Killer In “Sunshine”

We ca n’t wait for Danny Boyle ’s Sunshine to come out on videodisc next Tuesday . Sunshine might have been the best SF movie of 2007 , even though its science was iffy in place . Take this cool - looking scene , where hapless communications officeholder Harvey tries to leap from one starship to another without a suit and does n’t quite make it . Within a minute of arc or so , he immobilise and becomes so brickle his weapon system shatters like an icicle . What would actually occur to an unprotected Harvey in blank ?

essentially , Harvey would die of suffocation . He would apace get “ the caisson disease ” because the air in his lungs would be trying to escape , and hypoxemia would result . He would n’t explode , because his skin is actually unassailable enough to hold everything together even in vacuum . But he also would n’t dead twist into a freeze - dried lollipop , like he does here . It takes clip for your consistence temperature to equalize with the near - sheer zero of space .

NASAknows a lotabout what would befall to unshielded humans in vacuum , because of an chance event in 1965 where a poor guy ’s suit tear in a vacancy test . He lost knowingness quickly but was otherwise unharmed . There ’s also the experience of thepoor chimpanzees(PDF ) whom scientist reveal to a vacuum back in 1964 .

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