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Robert Walker
Pretty much the same as taking your space suit off outside the ISS.

It's on average 0.6% of Earth's atmospheric pressure, which as far as humans are concerned might as well be a vacuum.  At deepest points, it's more like 1% but still that is as near to a vacuum as makes no difference for humans.

At body temperature then the moisture lining your lungs would boil, and your saliva would boil also - not your blood though, because it is enclosed in blood vessels. So, it wouldn't help either to have a supply of oxygen like a diver with an aqualung - that would be like trying to use an aqualung outside the ISS, you'd still die from the vacuum conditions.

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Robert Walker

Robert Walker

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