Stuck in a tent - How would this end up?

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It's strange how opiate induced dreams can stick in your mind. I'm still on a stack of painkillers due to my arm and I sometimes have really odd dreams. I woke up as this one ended so I made a note to ask GD.

You're in a tent and it's a good tent. It's not just a good tent, it's an excellent tent. It's like a big military tent made of really thick and heavy canvas. You can't break through it, it's too strong for that.

When it was erected (stop sniggering at the back), it was completely airtight. Totally and utterly airtight, it's sealed.

So to get around the problem of suffocation, you're wearing an aqualung.

All of a sudden, in the space of less than half a microsecond, all the air is removed from inside the tent. It's suddenly a vacuum.

You're going to die.

But how do you die?

Does the sudden removal of air cause the tent to collapse on you? Does the pressure of the tent imploding squeeze you to death instantly? Does it wrap around you? Do you live on, just with canvas moulded around your body until the aqualung runs out of air?

Remember, don't question the situation, it's based on a dihydrocodeine induced dream!

I can't answer it so I thought GD might have a response.

Over to you.
 
If it's a good tent and supports it own weight then you die when you run out of oxygen in the tank.

It it's a bad tent and collapses in the vacuum, you still die when you run out of oxygen in the tank as the weight of the tent collapsing is only due to normal pressure* and you don't die when you step outside in to fresh air, do you?

*Fantastic scientific explanation there.

Feek said:
Remember, don't question the situation, it's based on a dihydrocodeine induced dream
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I'd still like to question it.

What?
 
If you imagine sticking a powerful pump to an airtight container and sucking the air out, it would quickly implode. No tent, theoretical or otherwise, will stand up to an actual vacuum and will split and collapse.

You'd probably not die
 
I love stoned feek. The tent would collapse in on itself due to atmospheric pressure likely suffocating you if you weren't already inside a sealed, airless bag. If you want an illustration just look up vac bags or vacuum forming.
 
You're not going to die. You're breathing in from a protected source (aqualung) and breathing out into the tent, which has shrunk around you. This will gradually re-inflate the tent enough for you to make your exit. Once you're out, you can take more of those magic painkillers and invent your next challenge.
 
The_Abyss said:
This will gradually re-inflate the tent enough for you to make your exit.
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The tent won't re-inflate.

Dis86 said:
I love stoned feek.
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Evangelion said:
I'm nowhere near high enough for this thread.
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I actually don't get high at all. All the painkillers I've been taking, people keep saying that I'll get high as a kite but the only side affect I'm getting is very vivid dreams. I don't get drowsy, I don't get high in the slightest. It's a little disappointing.
Oh, I do get one side affect. The constipation is awful.
 
The change in pressure will cause all the gases inside you to expand and rupture your cells. Depending on what’s outside the tent and whether it can take the pressure then it would collapse on you too. So it would most likely be a mixture of both all your cells rupturing and being crush by the tent.
 
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