I don't think atmospheric immolation would be the exact term about the sentence. Since you're dropped in space, you "die" instantly due to the absolute zero temperature...
Mereck said: Since you're dropped in space, you "die" instantly due to the absolute zero temperature...
What. It's a (near) vaccuum, so you won't lose heat any faster than a vaccuum flask loses it. Only a little due heat radiation, but you'd last hours if that was the only problem.
No, you die from the asphyxiation and decompression sickness due to the low pressure. Not from the temperature. And for an android that is hardly a problem.
piespy said: What. It's a (near) vaccuum, so you won't lose heat any faster than a vaccuum flask loses it. Only a little due heat radiation, but you'd last hours if that was the only problem.
No, you die from the asphyxiation and decompression sickness due to the low pressure. Not from the temperature. And for an android that is hardly a problem.
Gally is a Cyborg, not an Andriod. However, very little of her outside body is biological. In fact, I think that the only part of her that is organic is her brain.
The Scene in question takes place in a city on an orbital ring above earth. if gally was put in an airlock facing earth, then had the airlock explosively decompress, chances are she would be thrown into the atmosphere, or into a low orbit that deteriorated until she fell into the atmosphere.
Gally's brain's water is replaced with a nano machine resin that protects her brain from the most harmful dangers. Or something like that. She was mostly lucky in surviving that, though.