Yes, some russian caught something on fire in a test situation and it went
up like the hindenburg before he could put it out. I worked at a company for
over a year that did work with liquid oxygen, and after it went into a heat
exchanger oxygen gas. Its interesting what will burn in the presence of pure
o2 gas. Liquid o2 spilled on anything organic and allowed to seep into it
can be very explosive (a leak of liquid o2 into a parking lot made of
asphault cane make one huge explosion under certain circumstances).
Now that I think about it doesnt nitrogen gas in your blood cause the bends
when you go from a higher pressure to a lower pressure (as in diving)? So if
your breathing normal air and you have a pressure drop in the capsule your
in for a world of hurt and that would affect your ability to fix the leak.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Finnegan" <pat_at_purdueriots.com>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 6:37 PM
Subject: OT: Space screwups Re: Magnetic Memory making a comeback?
> On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, TeoZ wrote:
>
> > Well I would be more worried about the guy with the methane farts next
to me
> > then the stray pencil lead dust.
> > That or if the heat tiles on the shuttle are still there on the way back
> > home.
> >
> > Some of the things the russians did were low tech but usefull. Whose
smart
> > idea was it to fill a capsule full of electical boxes with 100% oxygen
> > environment for no particular reason?
>
> Actually, both us and the Russians did that; they even did it first. Of
> course, it happened to them 'behind closed doors' so we didn't get a
> chance to learn from their mistake.
>
> Pat
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Received on Wed Jun 11 2003 - 17:56:00 BST