What would you do if you were trapped inside a bubble?

[adoidos15]

You are in your backyard. You have no sharp objects inside. You are floating up and away, but slowly, at a velocity of 0.5m/s. At the start of your escape, the bubble has 100% oxygen and is 5.5-6ft, depending on your height really (as tall as you are). The mass of the bubble skin is 1 pound, while the mass inside is 80 pounds of pressure (yes, after all, 12 hours of air is a lot inside 6 feet< ...read below) If your cell phone in there, it would take minutes for help to arrive. Assume that air supply lasts for 12 hours. So what would you do then?


Simple version: You are in your backyard. You have no sharp objects inside. You are floating up and away, but slowly. If your cell phone in there, it would take minutes for help to arrive. Assume that air supply lasts for 12 hours. So what would you do then?

[adoidos15]

Escrito originalmente por Malice, Hierarch of Anarchy:

Escrito originalmente por adoidos15:

Well that just proves how strong the bubble is. Simple punching and pounding won't break it

That is a moot point, as you will be dead from the air pressure.

How can air pressure inside kill you? You wouldn't notice a thing. Like a car underwater, lots of the air gets stuck. If you were to go to that pocket of air, you wouldn't die.

[papa nurgle's pizza]

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Escrito originalmente por Malice, Hierarch of Anarchy:

That is a moot point, as you will be dead from the air pressure.

How can air pressure inside kill you? You wouldn't notice a thing. Like a car underwater, lots of the air gets stuck. If you were to go to that pocket of air, you wouldn't die.

In an atmosphere many times the pressure of Earth's, you would most certainly notice the fact that the air is too heavy to breathe.

[adoidos15]

Escrito originalmente por Malice, Hierarch of Anarchy:

Escrito originalmente por adoidos15:

How can air pressure inside kill you? You wouldn't notice a thing. Like a car underwater, lots of the air gets stuck. If you were to go to that pocket of air, you wouldn't die.

In an atmosphere many times the pressure of Earth's, you would most certainly notice the fact that the air is too heavy to breathe.

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Escrito originalmente por adoidos15:

Not really. Those submarines deep underwater have TONS of pressure on them. Are the people inside them dead?

No because the air pressure inside the ship is normal. The submarine is protecting them from the water pressure outside of it. This is different than the bubble situation you proposed, because there's nothng protecting the person from the pressure inside the bubble.

So how come there are people that can breath perfectly fine if they blew up a balloon and go inside it? There is lots of pressure inside the balloon, so wouldn't the air be very heavy to the point where they can't breath? They can be inside the balloon for 1+ hour.

[papa nurgle's pizza]

Escrito originalmente por adoidos15:

Escrito originalmente por Malice, Hierarch of Anarchy:

In an atmosphere many times the pressure of Earth's, you would most certainly notice the fact that the air is too heavy to breathe.

Escrito originalmente por Toast:

No because the air pressure inside the ship is normal. The submarine is protecting them from the water pressure outside of it. This is different than the bubble situation you proposed, because there's nothng protecting the person from the pressure inside the bubble.

So how come there are people that can breath perfectly fine if they blew up a balloon and go inside it? There is lots of pressure inside the balloon, so wouldn't the air be very heavy to the point where they can't breath? They can be inside the balloon for 1+ hour.

There isn't that much pressure inside of a balloon.

[King Manuel I]

The nerds are going at it

[adoidos15]

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So how come there are people that can breath perfectly fine if they blew up a balloon and go inside it? There is lots of pressure inside the balloon, so wouldn't the air be very heavy to the point where they can't breath? They can be inside the balloon for 1+ hour.

The balloon gets inflated because the elastic quality of the rubber is not strong enough to resist the internal pressure to squeeze out the air being put into it by your lungs. Your lungs counteract the strength of the rubber because your lungs are stronger. This also means that any difference in terms of the pressure inside and outside the balloon is negligable when it comes to what is tolerable by human lungs, and certainly well within what the human body can handle in terms of external pressure.

Humans can survive within a range of air pressures. Go outside that range and they will die. This by the way is how humans can survive changes in altitude. Different altitudes have different air pressures. Go too far in one direction or another and they will die. Likewise, go too high in internal pressure and the balloon will pop because it will reach the limits of what the rubber can handle. Stick a sealed balloon inside a vacuum chaimber and the balloon will expand as you remove the air from the chaimber, because the internal pressure of the balloon is higher than the external pressure around it. Keep doing this and it will pop because the rubber will reach its limits. Go the other direction and it will contract.

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So how come there are people that can breath perfectly fine if they blew up a balloon and go inside it? There is lots of pressure inside the balloon, so wouldn't the air be very heavy to the point where they can't breath? They can be inside the balloon for 1+ hour.

There isn't that much pressure inside of a balloon.

So let's just say that there's more pressure outside the bubble than inside

[adoidos15]

Escrito originalmente por Toast:

Escrito originalmente por adoidos15:

So let's just say that there's more pressure outside the bubble than inside

The pressure inside is what matters. If you put 12 hours of air into a bubble with a 6 foot diameter, anyone trapped inside will die because the pressure is too high.

Look at it this way. Deep sea divers and astronauts carry compressed air in tanks. The air is released from the tanks into their suit. The pressure inside of the suit is lower than the pressure of the air tanks. This is how the air is able to flow out of the tank into the suit. If the pressure of the suit was the same as the tank, either the suit would burst or the person in it would die.

What you're proposing is effectively the same as putting the person inside of the compressed air tank, and they would not be able to survive.

Either you get this or you don't. If you don't get it by this point, let's just say that you probably lack the brainpower to be able to comprehend it...

Let's pretend humans can handle the pressure.

[Zales]

Wouldn't my body weight make the balloon stay on the ground? If so, just stay there until Steve my nextdoor neighbor who I hate because my life is a sitcom comes and helps me but I don't like it but it happens anyway and Steve is the unappreciated hero of the episode.

But seriously, this concept is flawed and am I learning more about physics in just this thread than I do in 1 day at school.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Escrito originalmente por Pumpkin Succubus:

Wow the nerds really are at it

Funny you should say this considering you're chatting on the Steam forums. :P

[La Ciel 🕊]

Call 911 tell them my address and hang up so they can see the truth for themselves.

[RolliePollie]

How big is the bubble? How is it possible to support my weight? What's it made of? How thick is it?

[push]

I'd await my long and painful death, knowing I could never truly escape. I would be trapped forever, and ever. Longing my death, sitting there day by day waiting for it to all end. Starving myself and being isolated from everything else in this world. I would be S T R A N D E D.

[Lusus Symphonia]

Running inside the bubble should theoretically make it spin enough to move in a direction, yes?
I'd spin it towards a tree where it would become wedged and then wait for help.

[FutaPowa]

I'm in a bubble all my life.

[Lusus Symphonia]

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I'm in a bubble all my life.

You were supposed to exit the womb at birth.