Honk on over to Movie Punks (http://www.moviepunks.com/index.php) and look for the link marked "Crab Video." Read the description first. This is how three out of four "Alien" movies would've ended in reality...
Then pop back and enjoy the strips. They purty funnies, and they act out a lot of our frustrations at Hollywood's crap without actually harming anyone.
Actually, as the alien movies were set in space, the pressure on board a spaceship would be normal atmospheric pressure of 14.7 psi while the pressure in space would be 0 psi. Compared to the massive pressure differentials found in deep sea this is almost nothing, and certainly would not be able to crush the Alien like a crab. Reminds me of the time in Futurama where the spaceship sinks down in the sea and the pressure goes up to 200 atmospheres at which point Fry asks how many atmospheres the spaceship can stand to which Professor Farnsworth replie: "Well it's a spaceship, so I'd say anything between 0 and 1". Makes me wonder why more movies don't have undersea sequences where people get crushed or explode from pressure changes, rather than setting it in space where people exploding is unrealistic. Cool video though.
That poor crab.
C Reynolds: Point taken. Hey, a "Futurama" watcher! Right on!
Akira Tubo: Well, look on the bright side. It was over before he knew it, and at least he didn't wind up in a vat of boiling water.
Ouch! And to die ass first, it just don't seem right! Even for sushi!
Though the change between 14 PSI to 0 may not seem like much the force at which the air escapes is quite violent and the idea that anyone could just "hold on" (i.e. Star Trek, Aliens) is absurd. Aircraft that depressureize at 35,000 feet extract people strapped to their seats quite nicely and that's not even 0 psi. The main thing that film demonstrates to me is how completely rediculous The Abyss was, but then I already knew that.
C Reynolds wrote:
>. Reminds me of the time in Futurama
> where the spaceship sinks down in the sea and the pressure
> goes up to 200 atmospheres at which point Fry asks how many
> atmospheres the spaceship can stand to which Professor
> Farnsworth replie: "Well it's a spaceship, so I'd say
> anything between 0 and 1".
hey that was on last night. was a pretty funny episode that i hadn't seen before. i especially liked the sub-plot of dr zoidberg becoming a "homeowner" when he finds the giant sea shell.
hey that was on last night.
I watched it and immediately thought of that post