根据流行科幻小说的描写,在一座绕着土星飞行的空间站中,一个身穿被扎出洞的太空服的人膨胀到巨大的体积,然后爆炸了。在火星上,一个人暴露在接近于真空的火星大气中,他的眼睛裂出来,靠视神经连接悬挂在脸的两侧。但根据麦克劳——希尔太空百科全书的描述,当动物在类似真空的状态下感受到突然减压时,它们不会一下子体积膨胀或眼睛爆裂出来。事实上,有机组织不会有这样的压缩或扩张。死亡是由积存在组织间隙的自由气体造成的身体反应引起的。如果减压过程用半秒或者更长的时间,就连肺组织都会安然 According to popular science-fiction depictions, in a space station flying around Saturn, a man wearing a spacesuit that was pulled out of a hole swells to a huge volume and explodes. On Mars, a person is exposed to the atmosphere of Mars near the vacuum, his eyes cracked, hanging on the sides of the face by optic nerve connections. However, according to the McLean-Hill Space Encyclopedia, when animals experience a sudden decompression under vacuum-like conditions, they do not bulge or burst their eyes at once. In fact, organic organizations do not have such compression or expansion. Death is caused by the body’s response to free gases that accumulate in the tissue space. If the decompression process with half a second or longer, even lung tissue will be safe