Yeah, I'm lying. The point is we're gonna have to be really careful with whatever we decide to do here. Best case scenario the hypothetical gates, which may or may not exist, lead to an environmentally sealed facility. Worst case scenario it's straight out into the open, in which case you're dead almost instantly. The mariana trench is like sixteen thousand PSI. For a frame of reference, a house is about fourteen. The moon's slightly better. If you hold your breath your lungs'll explode. If you don't, it's just the rest of the oxygen in your body that'll make you expand to twice your size, but at least your skin'll keep it all inside like a water balloon. You pass out in about fifteen seconds and you're dead in ninety, max.
( Not because he doesn't know Nate is smart. He really, really does. It's just his constant fear over the theme of protagonist syndrome that permeates through the displaced. Nate's definitely on the better end of the spectrum, but he's still branded action hero in Ian's mind. Outlining the gory details will hopefully hammer in how overly cautious they actually need to be. Being aggressively careful is what kept him alive in the early days of the apocalypse, before they made their safe haven in Crater Lake. )
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Date: 2020-12-11 12:30 am (UTC)( Short pause, and a gently humored follow-up; )
Yeah, I'm lying. The point is we're gonna have to be really careful with whatever we decide to do here. Best case scenario the hypothetical gates, which may or may not exist, lead to an environmentally sealed facility. Worst case scenario it's straight out into the open, in which case you're dead almost instantly. The mariana trench is like sixteen thousand PSI. For a frame of reference, a house is about fourteen. The moon's slightly better. If you hold your breath your lungs'll explode. If you don't, it's just the rest of the oxygen in your body that'll make you expand to twice your size, but at least your skin'll keep it all inside like a water balloon. You pass out in about fifteen seconds and you're dead in ninety, max.
( Not because he doesn't know Nate is smart. He really, really does. It's just his constant fear over the theme of protagonist syndrome that permeates through the displaced. Nate's definitely on the better end of the spectrum, but he's still branded action hero in Ian's mind. Outlining the gory details will hopefully hammer in how overly cautious they actually need to be. Being aggressively careful is what kept him alive in the early days of the apocalypse, before they made their safe haven in Crater Lake. )