Re: [GZG Fiction] Seventy Dead after Freighter Accident

At 9:49 PM +0000 1/24/04, Roger Burton West wrote:
>
>The space shuttles carry bottles of pressurised Freon-1301 (or at least
>they did a few years ago, not sure whether they've now refitted with
the
>CO2 system they were contemplating at the time, but probably not since
>it's just too bulky) and Halon-1301 hand extinguishers. Extinction by
>vacuum is _not_ a standard procedure.

I can ask my uncle about the current extinguisher 
fit as he's a midbody electrician and his wife is 
a forebody project manager.

As far as venting atmosphere to protect a ship, 
figure that on a much larger warship, it'll be 
designed to so so just like warships are desgined 
to flood down compartments and bunkers to deal 
with damage (or used to be).

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