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| Bud Brewster wrote: | | True, but the article that started this thread straightened us out about that. I was wondering which situation might have actually caused blood to spout out and plaster the visor. |
Oh. We're retro-accurizing a 1950s movie, then.
O-o-o-kay. Well, blood spurting out his nose and mouth could vaporize in the lower air pressure, spreading out every which way and coating the visor before it found its way out the puncture hole like a flushing toilet. Since dropping pressure also produces a cooling effect, the blood could freeze on contact with the visor. But we saw Ross Martin screaming before we saw any blood. (Back then they certainly would not have exploded his head in a juvenile-friendly sci-fi feature.) So maybe blood from anywhere in his body would be encountering a vacuum as it exited the still warm body after the suit lost pressure, thus expanding from its own dissolved gasses (i.e., boiling) and coating the interior of the suit.
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Bud Brewster
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There ya go! Very scientific. Very logical. Quite accurate. (Stand back . . . I'm gonna hurl.) 
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orzel-w
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| Bud Brewster wrote: | | (Stand back . . . I'm gonna hurl.) |
Just open your faceplate first.
Photobucket appears to be back up.  So here's a shot of that red faceplate.
Okay, I'm exaggerating. This is more like it.
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| Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2016 10:43 pm Post subject: ! |
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| Bud Brewster wrote: | | What would be the most likely cause of blood in the helmet? |
It was filmed in the 1950s, there would be no blood in the helmet, nor shots of a hole in the suit with a red mist shooting out.
The Hays office would not allow it!
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Robert (Butch) Day
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| Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2016 6:08 am Post subject: Re: ! |
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| Bud Brewster wrote: | | What would be the most likely cause of blood in the helmet? |
Broken blood vessels as in a nose bleed? (Badly overused, often incorrectly, in many genre movies.)
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While leaving an airlock sans suite sucks the E.D. (explosive decompression) that follows blows.
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