About half as insane as being able to do it and not!

That was extremely scary though.

Nope, common misconception.

You could survive in space for on the order of a minute. There is enough negative pressure to keep you from boiling.

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/970603.htm l

ugh.

after he was in a trench during a mortar attack, Sebastian Junger wrote a good passage about sudden, violent death

You don't so much a die as you simply cease to exist, your brain and your nervous system are fragmented and gone before they can even send any distress signals

that makes me feel better about the Byford Dolphin...those dudes never had any idea what happened to them