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Explosive Decompression: No. Just no. (In the trope sense. Obviously it can happen in the technical sense.) Well, with one exception. The trope quite correctly notes that it can happen if you have a really high pressure gradient, say, 8-9 atm to 1 atm. As such, some people from planets
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Continuous Decompression: Averted in exactly the hard-SFnal ways one might expect it to be. Specifically, among other things: (a) Explosive decompression be explosive, yo. Specifically, the air doesn’t hang around producing wind and blowing things around; it leaves. But also: (b) Most decompression is not explosive. Mostly, the air
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Space is Cold: Averted. You need matter to have a temperature, and guess what space doesn’t have? You’ll freeze to death eventually, sure, thanks to the slow process of radiating your heat away – in the absence of any form of conduction or convection – into that giant sky heatsink