actually itโs 20 to 30 before you go unconscious, and about 45 to a minute before you die, depending on how much oxygen your blood can store.
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So very firmly in the territory of a brutal death.
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Yeahโฆ
If there ever are space stations with a death sentence, would they execute people by ejecting them into space or turn them into a fertilizer for their space plant farms?
put them in the airlock, turn them into a corpse, freeze dry them, then put em in the corpse wiggler until they become a fine powder you can rehydrate to use as nutrient paste or plant fertilizer
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yeah freezing is not happening thatโs stupid, but otherwise yep right on, though as @Dawn said, itโs more than twice that long. Also, this is if the decompression takes a few seconds. If the suit ruptures all at once and youโre holding your breath, you die immediately (if you exhale i think itโs about the same), and if it decompresses over a minute or two you might pass out before anything unpleasant happened.
There will almost certainly be space stations with the death penalty, just cause keeping people alive in jail is expensive. For the same reason, fertilizer. And yeah, @Dawnโs idea is a good one. Alternately if youโre on a very fast space ship, for example a one-to-three-generations-ship, that is constantly accelerating, I.E. with antimatter engines, you have most likely optimized your cargo and some inefficient botched together fertilizer isnโt going to help as much as just shoving them out the airlock. But, you know what might help more? Shoving them in the combustion chamber. A plasma made of human sounds like a pretty good bulk material to accelerate for reaction mass if youโve got a source of heat in your engine.
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If you reach the point that you have a court in a space station, then you already have prisions and a stable population, as such one or two people being kept in prision for the rest of their lives is going to put minimal strain resources.
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what if you have under 100 people? The first person to do something that makes you think they canโt safely exist around everyone else, and youโre presented with converting some space into a prison, and getting at least 1 other person out of the workforce to deal with them, and itโs very possible you had no one staring at security cams 24-7 so now you need three guys each working 8 hours, and its 4 if you want a guard, but that can be left out and it can be a โwhen you need oneโ responsibility someone else takes. You need to feed, air, water, house, 4-5 people because one guy stabbed someone or something. Maybe whoever sent you there said no killing, but if I were China Iโd fertilizerize them, and if I were SpaceX Iโd โtragic accident while doing community service on the other side of the airlockโ them, if I were India or Brazil (or any company trying to catch up to SpaceX) Iโd choose either of those over risking the mission and/or wasting a comical amount of money. Maybe NASA and ESA and whatever Japanโs doing would avoid it, but all other major players I think would do it. If we get hibernation technology soon though, yeah having the doctor check in a coffin in the corner a few times isnโt too hard.
edit: scaring them into shutting up and not doing anything weird might be a possible third option for smaller crimes. Like if itโs not a saboteur and just a guy with anger issues or who groped someone once, put a bomb in their neck suicide squad style, and tell them if you even suspect them of something you can decapitate them remotely, and thereโs no legal system in space. Basically Iโm not saying theyโll be evil, Iโm saying that unless they have constant communication with earth they wonโt have a legal system that has a court and prison. You might get a few places with prisons and no courts, and I supposed a few courts with no prisons in this post, but I assume both would require over 100 people or a huge facility or something.
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How did this turn from a mention of polaris dawn into a discussion on ethics of execution in space?
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because tangents are more enjoyable than being normal.
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What? If someone family shares their free games and that the one who gets shared doesnโt have those free games initially, the latter will get those games and get to keep them if the sharing comes to a close.
You canโt! Itโs murder!
so??? what are you gonna do if someone on your ship is trying to murder everyone then, let the ship just get taken over by that one person? no! you freeze dry them and put 'em in the corpse wiggler!
So the Family feature is really just โshare your gamesโ feature?
yep.
Not only do I have multiple accounts sharing with each other, but I needed to hit word count.
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Dawn has never heard of incarceration, binding or any other non-lethal way of dealing with dangerous people.
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Well there are methods to โbypassโ the minimum word limit.
Oh sorry, I didnโt read the entire discussion.
Indeed.
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I guess then that it should be called the โsharingโ feature.
They call it โfamily shareโ because you should only do that with people you trust the most.
After a few weeks of TMS therapy, I still donโt feel better. I just really canโt feel anything, but sorrow and nostalgia. There are things that I want to accomplish in life, but I donโt have the energy to do so. Apathy and anhedonia fusioned together as a curse. I really want to get out of this situation, but Iโm locked.
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Yeh but they donโt want people using it, theyโd really like you to spend money, but allowing multiple steam cloud saves through this weird sharing feature is great for families, so they named it accordingly.
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I wonder how many people already have been banned because of missusing the feature.