Can this PLEASE PLEASE be moved to OT??? There's no PIC content here. Dale -- It's a thankless job, but I've got a lot of Karma to burn off. On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, m tanski wrote: > Your lungs would not explode, they would fill with a nice pink liquid. This is caused by a higher pressure inside the cells inside your lungs, This is actually a quite common ailment among high altitude climbers. Its fatal unless you can get the person to a lower altitude or inside a pressurized gamov bag. This is called Pulmonary Edema ther is also another version callled cereberal edema, which effects you brain. The astronauts would have pretty much vapourised due to heat before this would have effected them. -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body