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[Anonymous No.6209655]

Could you smoke a cigarette aboard the ISS?
I can't find any information about the percentage of oxygen aboard it but I would assume it's much higher than that on Earth. Also, would zero gravity create a problem? I wouldn't think the smoke would diffuse and you could risk suffocating.

[Anonymous No.6209659]

>>6209655
Ashes wouldn't be a good thing to deal with in 0g, that alone is enough reason not to do it.

[Anonymous No.6209663]

>>6209659
You could ash into a bottle.

>>6209655
>I wouldn't think the smoke would diffuse and you could risk suffocating.
What are you trying to get at? I see no reason why you couldn't inhale and exhale a cigarette. I mean, the cabin is pressurized. Smoking is like augmented breathing and you can breathe.

[Anonymous No.6209666]

>>6209663
This is why you aren't in charge of space missions my nigga
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing_in_space#Contamination_control

[Anonymous No.6209701]

>>6209655

[Anonymous No.6209709]

>>6209701
I figured it was fake.
Still, it's an interesting topic.
What is the oxygen content aboard the ISS?

[Anonymous No.6209711]

It would be hard to keep it lit, and the smoke might screw with the machines keeping you alive, but you could. You wouldn't, though.

[Anonymous No.6209722]

>>6209709
its pretty much normal, as the pressure is also close to nominal Earth at sea-level; thus no need for increased oxygen

[Anonymous No.6209727]

>>6209709
during early launches (before ISS, I believe it was Mercury capsules), it was high oxygen content (>90%?), as it allowed the walls to be built thinner as they pressure inside the capsule only had to support the vapor pressure of oxygen.
After a fire (or two?) in an early capsule, manned missions now use an Earth's atmosphere mix of 80-20 nitrogen to oxygen

[Anonymous No.6209783]

Sure you can, just step outside and light up