Re: [GZG Fiction] Seventy Dead after Freighter Accident

DAMAGE CONTROL INSTRUCTOR EYE BALLS THE CLASSROOM FULL	 HALF AWAKE
TRAINEES.  

"QUESTIONS?" 

ONE HAIRY HAND SHOOTS UP . IT IS ATTACHED TO THE NEANDERTHAL WEARING THE
CAMOUFLAGE BATTLEDRESS AT THE  REAR OF THE CLASSROOM. 

hokay, friends, being pretty muchof a plain trigger pulling, making shit
dead kinda joe, i have a few wonderful questions concerning fire in
space.

a. assumption, military vessels would always  enter combat (given the
chance) with vacc-suited crews and   0-atmos pheric pressure in
compartments to avoid
damaged from explosive decompression and   internal explosions, period?

surely, with the energy and heat transference accompanying damage from
hyper velocity projectile weapons, as well as energy weapons, and
exploding missile warheads, there is a chance of warship and other
spacecraft  personnel/materials being subjected to flashfires,
explosions, and  sizzling hot fragments, etc?

and in a 0-gee or micro gee environment fire does really weird things (
i am told; flows like  water, floats about in self consuming fireballs,
etc? that very hot materials puncturing and  sizzling into a crew
member's vacc-suit might be  more than just an explosive decompression
problem (as in flashfire INSIDE the vacc-suit), for coolant, hydraulic,
fuel, oxygen reserves, water reserves, and electrical  components.

firefighting gases and foams to flood  a burning compartment, while
saving the day, might also make for really serious stuff to deal with
later?

as has ben pointed out, venting a comparment to extinguish the fire only
works  as long	as the	white/red hot wotzit  is not exposed to oxygen
again until it is cool?

also what about  materials that FEED EACH OTHER, making a self
sustaining fire and explosions?

what about  materials that when combined produce  flash fires and
prolonged fires that burn with such intensity that they  cause, say,
water to break down into into its  different components when exposed to
the heat?

would this  also occur with other fire fighting  tools?

and wot about those  magazines inboard loaded with boom thingies and
store power?

 air hazard? radiation hazard? bio hazard? 0 gee/ micro-gee conditions?
fluctuating lighting  (strobe effect by accident)? 

i think a really nice  learning  talk about fire, explosions,
eletctrical arc,  and  other nastiness would be a help to an admitted
less than rocket scientist like me

DAWGIE,  who used to be locked, loaded and ready to make shit dead on
demand . . .