Re: Explosive decompression - how fast?

On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:01:36 -0500, Tim Little
<tim@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>On 2008-04-25, Brian Davis <brdavis@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> She really only accelerates for the first couple seconds, after that
>> the lock is at such a low pressure that the remaining 'wind' just
>> doesn't have enough force to do anything.
>
>Yes, that's about right, if the door opens outward and sticks at a
>10 cm gap.  Though actually I'd be very surprised to see an airlock
>with a door that opened outward at all.

It's a launch bay for a Viper (the scene was the ending of last week's
Battlestar Galactica)