Air leak
5:04 pm UTC
The continuous and monotonous repetition of a single noise of machinery, pistons, gear wheel, rotating and gliding organisms, over time, become known as a music and you'll hardly longer the case.
's why any discordant note jumping to your ear, any variation from the scheme is perceived as his fingers felt immediately a pebble in a handful of fine sand.
The noise, the most appalling noise that may feel in a space station be suspended in the void of the sky: the hiss sputacchiante of an air leak.
For an astronaut means almost certain death, not a glorious death in battle or the less martial but no less heroic after taking a long fight against the disease. And not even death caused by the incurable disease most of all, life itself, when you stretch so much to become thin and discard the leaves as the season ended.
Death vacuum is painful and violent asphyxia: the human body, made to withstand the weight of the atmosphere constantly, and you tend suddenly deforms, the tensions between the internal organs no longer balanced by the pressure lacerate the skin, the ribs on the break out with a series of snaps repeated, her eyes burst with two "plop " spreading around parts of the brain and blood and stuff. You do not die of suffocation , in the vacuum of space, you do not die from the cold. They die because they explode.
feel the hiss fatal, as clear as a trumpet on the background of low well-regulated machine, I shuddered.
Fortunately I am on a space station but in a sawmill, and the noise I hear is not a fatal loss of the hull but a tube leading compressed air that is broken. I press the button to stop the machine, close the air outlet, insert as an indicator of safety at work of the emergency button, I take a screwdriver from the box and a new tube.
My colleague further down the line, lights a cigarette. It can not smoke in here, but nobody says anything and besides we are careful to turn off the butt well.
The life of a worker is not subject to certain emotions, but at least one is not likely to explode spreading around their internal organs. Or get a hole in the skull micrometeorites. Or to burn in the fire of a tank of compressed oxygen. Or some other horrible death.
course remains a risk of injury from machinery, but just to be careful.
I'm very careful, do not want someone to collect pieces bloody me around the plant .
Not that I was an astronaut.
Even the salary is nothing compared .