Mythbusters Explosive Decompression Experiment

"John Harper" wrote in message
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| Shame I missed it, maybe I'll see it on the 394th rerun.
|
| But anyway I DID see Goldfinger the other night so I know
| this is all wrong. If you shoot a bullet through the window of
| an airplane, first the whole window explodes. Then everything
| is sucked through the window, including people who are
| considerably larger than the window aperture (except James
| Bond of course). This continues indefinitely. Also the plane
| goes into an uncontrollable dive and ends up spiralling into
| the ground, despite the combined efforts of two people on
| the flight deck.
|
| I think I prefer the James Bond version.
|
| John
|
| ( :-), for the irony challenged)

Mythbusters seemed to prefer the "U.S. Marshals" version, complete with
shackled prisoners and guards being sucked out the airplane. The James Bond
"Die Another Day" version is just not as good as the "Goldfinger" scene.

I think I know the origin of all of this -- it is none other than Dr.
Wernher von Braun and Walt Disney. Disney made a film about the Dyna Soar
space project ("Man and Space" -1957) that was narrated by Braun. That film
shows a cartoon of the occupants being sucked out of the spacecraft after a
meteor pierces a tiny hole in the structure.