Space Dive Page #2
- TV-PG
- Year:
- 2012
- 90 min
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for a manned flight.
One tenth as thick
as a polythene bag
but strong enough to carry the space
capsule that Art is building.
At launch,
it will be filled with helium
until it's taller
than a fifty-storey building.
It's amazing that this
piece of plastic, that is
no thicker than a dry cleaner bag,
is going to hold up all this weight.
At around 63,000 feet, it will
pass through the Armstrong line.
Beyond this point,
the lack of pressure
would be deadly without protection.
As it rises, the gas will expand
until the balloon
is the width of a football field.
It will take three hours to carry
Felix 24 miles above the earth.
Getting him there is hard enough.
Keeping him alive is even harder.
We're talking about the medical
and physiological considerations
Felix and Joe
meet the project's medical team.
We have to go through the what-if's
to understand what our choices are.
It includes a former astronaut
and the world's leading expert
on altitude sickness.
This is what happens in the body.
The CO2,
partial pressure of oxygen...
The doctors have identified a series
of high-altitude dangers.
First, a life-threatening condition
called hypoxia.
Definition of hypoxia.
It's a deficiency of oxygen.
These are the symptoms.
You may get impaired efficiency,
drowsiness, poor judgement,
visual blurring, extreme fatigue,
you're not really functional
at that point.
the lack of atmospheric pressure
above the Armstrong line.
Ebulism. Definition -
tissue vaporization. It's dramatic.
It's life-threatening.
Above the Armstrong line,
you don't have the pressure
of the atmosphere holding the gas
in your blood stream.
The gas is trying to find
the fastest path out of your body.
Out of every orifice you have,
you'll start to ooze fluids.
twice its size.
It's like the worst possible
horror film.
We can show you a video of a guy
that had that in a chamber,
suit pressurised, it becomes
disconnected from a life support.
He remembered his tongue
was boiling.
'You're so far away from anything,
any medical treatment,
'any help at all.
If something goes wrong,'
you're by yourself.
That is really scary.
This is what I'm thinking about
all the time.
Where do you want to abort? At what
level of risk do you want to abort?
Only way to ensure his safety
is stay on the ground.
He's not going to do that.
We're talking about risk factors -
that's a crock.
We're going to do this project.
Let's just get out of this,
accept a little bit of risk
and press on.
'The consensus is that
he can survive the experience.'
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