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A comment on Colonizing Mars: A Critique of the SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System. Parent comment

Re:Colonizing Mars: A Critique of the SpaceX Interplanetary ... by ceejayoz on Saturday October 22, 2016 @09:05AM (#12768518)
I doubt that's the case. Suits will be tough, and undoubtedly come with patch kits, and folks will use the buddy system.

A penny-sized hole would give time to patch, and suits would likely be designed to compartmentalize in a leak. In a true worst-case scenario, chimp studies in the 1970s showed they could survive several minutes of total vacuum.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/survival-in-space...

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Re:Colonizing Mars: A Critique of the SpaceX Interplanetary ... by M_Grey on Saturday October 22, 2016 @12:09PM (#12769228)
How long a human would survive is one thing. How much medical care they'd need is another. They'd be on Mars, not Earth, and I imagine being a quadruple amputee on Mars would effectively be a death sentence.
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Re:Colonizing Mars: A Critique of the SpaceX Interplanetary ... by ceejayoz on Saturday October 22, 2016 @01:41PM (#12769653)
Musk's plan is to have ships going back and forth every launch window. I'd expect anyone disabled like that to be offered a trip home.
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Re:Colonizing Mars: A Critique of the SpaceX Interplanetary ... by M_Grey on Saturday October 22, 2016 @06:59PM (#12770959)
I'll believe that when I see it.
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