Re: [GZG] Biology in a vacuum

[Ryan Gill <rmgill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:03 PM -0500 3/27/06, Roger Books wrote:
> The biologicals that live deep in the ocean 
> don't deal with the pressure by maintaining
> a different pressure outside as inside.   They are equalized inside and out.

Don't the deep diving sperm whales have air in 
their lungs? Their lungs are probably 
compressible, but they still have air no?


> You could inflate a balloon at the deepest spot 
> in the ocean and it would be fine.
> If you inflate the same balloon in space it would pop.

If you inflate the same balloon with only a tiny 
amount of air, it'll be fine. Just like the first 
mylar satellite was done to make a large radar 
reflector.

Overall, you're still only dealing with 1 
atmosphere of pressure which engineering wise is 
trivial to contain.
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