Re: Explosive decompression - how fast?

: Russell Wallace <russell.wallace.nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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: That's interesting, because it appears to conflict with the usual 
: description of explosive decompression on aircraft: even a fairly small 
: hole in e.g. an airliner at altitude, will cause everything that isn't 
: nailed down - including people who aren't strapped into their seats - to

: be quickly sucked out the hole. Is that description simply inaccurate, 
: or is there a difference in the cases that I'm missing?

It's inaccurate.  I seem to recall there was a mythbusters that
concluded "busted".


Wayne Throop   throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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