Anna Tijinski
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They were blind for a little bit longer.
And they did the same with chimps in 1964, and they found that chimps could last 3.5 minutes.
And then within 72 minutes after recompression, they're fine.
Again, they swelled up like a huge balloon, and then they were okay.
So that's good to know if you do fall into a vacuum.
You've got maybe 3 to 3.5 minutes.
Well, we think we're closer to chimps, so maybe 3.5 minutes.
Well, this is because what would you guys say is the definition of a vacuum?
Completely empty.
No, well, basically never.
And almost everything that we call a vacuum isn't even close.
You know, when you like vacuum packed or vacuum sealed or vacuum cleaner.
All of that stuff is like you just have to basically the definition of a vacuum is actually the air pressure on one side is lower than atmospheric air pressure.
It doesn't mean empty.
So usually if you've taken out about 70 to 90% of the air, then that creates the vacuum.