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Originally Posted by Fuzz

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I didn't get the Cyn thing? Is he dead? They showed him kinda frozen, just as Naomi left. Couldn't he or whoever was outside have shut the door? If she had all that time to survive, wouldn't he? I haven't read the books, so was unsure on that. But if he died and she lived, it makes even less sense.

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So from what we know about space now, when you are in a vacuum you're unconscious and probably dead in ~20s. That time gets shorter if you have air in your lungs when you are exposed from vacuum due to pressure differences sucking the air out of you. So if you know the vacuum is coming and are prepared for it by exhaling, you'll last longer than if you aren't and just reflexively held your breath.

Naomi survived because she gave herself a kick of oxygen to her body while she was outside. You'll see Cyn's hand reaching out for Naomi as she floating away and he loses consciousness and gets stuck in place, but blocks the doors from shutting completely. The airlock doors attempt to close partially and stop. Guessing some kind of safety mechanism, like we have with current automatic doors. It's one of those blink and you'll miss it things.

So you got Cyn blocking the outer door of the airlock from closing with seconds to live and Filip is stuck on the other side not being able to open the inner airlock door without exposing the whole ship to vacuum and he can't close the outer doors quickly. Filip would either have to override the safeties or goto the next bulkhead over and close those doors + get his own vac suit on to rescue Cyn, both of which would take too long... so Cyn is definitely dead.