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[alfie275]

Also in low pressure the boiling point of water is lower, so your eyes and mouth would likely freeze.

[forsaken1111]

Also in low pressure the boiling point of water is lower, so your eyes and mouth would likely freeze.

I'd like to submit that a frostbitten tongue is entirely secondary to boiling blood bursting out of every vein in your body.

[RulerOfNothing]

Also in low pressure the boiling point of water is lower, so your eyes and mouth would likely freeze.

I'd like to submit that a frostbitten tongue is entirely secondary to boiling blood bursting out of every vein in your body.

That wouldn't happen. As it turns out, your blood vessels are mostly capable of holding your blood inside if your body is exposed to vacuum (though you will get some swelling).

[10ebbor10]

Also in low pressure the boiling point of water is lower, so your eyes and mouth would likely freeze.

I'd like to submit that a frostbitten tongue is entirely secondary to boiling blood bursting out of every vein in your body.

That wouldn't happen. As it turns out, your blood vessels are mostly capable of holding your blood inside if your body is exposed to vacuum (though you will get some swelling).

Yup, some blood vessels in the eyes and such might burst, but it wouldn't be very problematic. (Except for the fact that your eyes would freeze over, but anyway)

[forsaken1111]

Sorry, you're telling me that nitrogen bubbles forming in your blood vessels isn't a big deal? It should be no different from decompression sickness, but more severe. Decompression sickness can be lethal if a bubble blocks blood to the brain or bursts an important vessel and causes internal bleeding. At the very least your mucus membranes would rupture and start gushing blood.

I mean some people get a severe nosebleed from a change of a few hundred feet in altitude...

[10ebbor10]

Sorry, you're telling me that nitrogen bubbles forming in your blood vessels isn't a big deal? It should be no different from decompression sickness, but more severe. Decompression sickness can be lethal if a bubble blocks blood to the brain or bursts an important vessel and causes internal bleeding. At the very least your mucus membranes would rupture and start gushing blood.

I mean some people get a severe nosebleed from a change of a few hundred feet in altitude...

We all know about decormpression sickness here (See previous page). However, your previous statement is still wrong on several accounts

Also in low pressure the boiling point of water is lower, so your eyes and mouth would likely freeze.

I'd like to submit that a frostbitten tongue is entirely secondary to boiling* blood bursting** out of every vein in your body.

* Boiling indicates that fluid would have a phase transition. What happens is the forming of Nitrogen bubbels in the veins, not the boiling of the blood itself
** Except for weaker veins, for example in the nose, none of the veins will burst. Blocked bloodflow is a more severe problem. Besides, even if they did, they still would have to go through your hide.

Really, the way you formulated you statement and the post you reacted too indicated that you were reffering to the common misconception that due the near nonexistent pressure in space, your blood would litterally boil, as opposed to the decompression mechanic, as described in the post above and on the previous page.

[forsaken1111]

My apologies for being imprecise.

[FallingWhale]

Can you add jumping and/or looking straight up/down?

[Scelly9]

You may want to add the website to the OP.

[alfie275]

Will we be able to have spinning 2001 style space stations?

[Kadath]

Hrm, i'll have to look more into how pressure affects the body it seems - oh well.

Can you add jumping and/or looking straight up/down?

Sure. It'll be in the next build then.

You may want to add the website to the OP.

Done!

Will we be able to have spinning 2001 style space stations?

Well, no. I'd have to make radical changes for that to work.

[Mono124]

This is FUCKING AWESOME

Posting to follow.

[Nightscar982]

PTW

Is gas pressure going to be affected by gravity, so that leaking gas would cling to the side of your station?

[10ebbor10]

PTW

Is gas pressure going to be affected by gravity, so that leaking gas would cling to the side of your station?

The gravitationall field of your station would be pretty neglible, so it won't have much effect. Maybe some nice visuals, but I doubt anything else would apply.

[thobal]

PTW

Will there Newtonian physics, asteroid fields, complicated orbital maneuvers and such?