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Any word on when the Dutch are going to offer him honorary citizenship?

Sorry, can you explain the joke?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Brinker,_or_The_Silver_Sk...

A rough calculation of how much it'd hurt (or not): Atmospheric pressure is 10.1N/cm^2, or 0.1N/mm^2. The hole is 2mm diameter, or ~3mm^2 in area, so the force over that area would be ~0.3N or roughly 30 grams.

It's not a lot of force. I'd be more worried about my skin sublimating, however.

I feel like they'll take a little anti-freezer burn over suffocation.

If only they had an inanimate carbon rod to block the hole!

Are they still taking duct tape up there with them?

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/duct-tape-saves-the-day

Apparently they have already used kapton tape on the hole.

"In Rod We Trust"

My guess is that he has some kind of glove on.

I'll let someone else have the fun doing the math, but I would guess his heat radiation (convection and conduction with vacuum are going to be negligible) would be on the order of milliwatts, which'll take an hour or so to change the temperature of 10g of skin by 1°

There's not many people that can say that their finger was in "direct contact" with space.