Welcome to 100 Ways to Die in Space
Hi there bloggies, welcome to a new and fun little feature – 100 ways to die in space. Taking inspiration from a million ways to die in the west I’ll be taking a somewhat tongue in cheek at the many and various ways that space is somewhat unkind to the average human being and it pretty effective at killing them very quickly. Step aboard and see what happens, just don’t come on wearing a red top!
Method 6 – Crushed by High Air Pressure
It should come as no surprise really that if a place in space can have too little air pressure then there are places that can have to much air pressure. The effects this can have on a poor delicate human are rather dramatic, as should be obvious.
Let’s take for example Venus, a wold where the atmospheric pressure is 90x that on Earth. Assuming we could build a spacecraft that was capable of flying to Venus and landing on its surface our poor astronaut would be crushed instantly into a poll of rather hot fleshy goo. Not a pleasant end. There isn’t really much one can do about this except the obvious – don’t land on the surface of this planet and definitely don’t get out. If there’s a convenient conspiracy theorist around who doesn’t believe you let them go. Just don’t stick around to clear up the mess, it won’t be pretty.
© Simon Farnell 2013 – 2022
Jupiter and Saturn – autumn planets
On Tueday Jupiter was at opposition, this means that the Sun, Earth and Jupiter are all in a line and it’s the closest that Jupiter gets to us this year. It also happened to be the closest Jupiter will be for a long time, so I was keen to get out and see what images … Continue reading Jupiter and Saturn – autumn planets
2001 – An Art Odyssey
Any of my long time bloggiesw ill know that one of my favourite all time SciFi stories is 2001 A Space Odyssey. For quite some time I’ve been thinking about what piece of work I could do for this. Eventually I chose this one, alshtough I have to say now that I would have done … Continue reading 2001 – An Art Odyssey
Dear Mr Alien… Division
Dear Mr Alien, I do have to ask for your help here, you’ve probably done all of this and know what we’ve got to do but why do we humans make it so difficult for ourselves? Can you tell us where we’re going wrong? We humans as a race are divided like this and in … Continue reading Dear Mr Alien… Division
Blog Orbit – Blog Date September 2022
Hello there bloggies! It’s me, Simon – if you can remember me! I wasn’t about much last month and I’ve not got much to tell you but I do have a couple of things… Most of what the last month about focused on a few little things as far as I can see:1) The end … Continue reading Blog Orbit – Blog Date September 2022
A Galaxy of Stars
A few weeks ago the sky was clearer than I’ve seen it for a long time and after seeing the success of someone else taking a picture with my same camrea I thought I would try the same settings and give it a go. The big variable with taking astrophotography pictures is the quality of … Continue reading A Galaxy of Stars
Astro Pics – 2 Planets and a Cluster
The nights over the last few weeks have been quite clear over England with the weather being unseasonably dry. This always offers some wonderful night time views of the sky and I knew it was coming up to the time where Saturn and Jupiter were in the sky. Then last week I say that yellowy … Continue reading Astro Pics – 2 Planets and a Cluster
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I feel like you could do 100 ways to die just on Venus. That planet is a menace!
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I guess we would not worry about obesity then.
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IF we don’t manage to wipe ourselves out and IF we give ourselves a collective ‘clip and the ear ‘ole’ and start seeing the only way is to work together, onwards ever upwards and outwards, one day, somehow, somewhen we will ‘stand’ on Venus….. because it is there.
(That’s the easy bit, it’s the not wiping ourselves out is the big problem)
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I call shenanigans… If you’re inside an atmosphere, you’re no longer in outer space. 😛 😀
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Ask someone on Earth that 😉
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That would require me to be able to find intelligent life.
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Yeah agreed it might be difficult 😂
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