I've been watching "The Expanse", and I'm wondering -- how is it that "spacing" people would even be a thing in all of the ships where it's done or threatened? Like, engineers put interlocks on that kind of thing: I'm imagining some kind of signaling system that ensures if any person is in the air lock, they are, at least, suited up. Besides that air pressure would be decreased in a controlled manner, not just vented out into space when someone casually presses a few buttons.
@namark "makes the safety system unrepairable as a cost reduction" I'm sorry, but that's fucking stupid. Any engineer stupid enough to design and build systems they *know* will get their users killed wouldn't be in the job long. Companies get sued virtually out of existence for serious safety violations. Given the baseline pucker factor of being in a tin can floating in space, who would seriously fly in one where a person could be accidentally ejected into vacuum?
@2ck quite the opposite, you cannot be accidentally ejected into space, when the system fails, you'll be safely locked inside, until you replace the whole ship. Because of this people start manually overriding the safety system, and yada yada
@namark I understand your scenario, but it's improbable given that no one has the incentive to continue to make bad systems. If your company builds shitty air locks that break down, people are going to figure it out then the people who bought the systems demand damages and the rest stop buying them. There seem to be multiple shipbuilders in "The Expanse", so people would have options.
@2ck it's cheaper thoooough, and also very slim and slick design, aaaand it's from the company that has a patent on the asteroid proof hull material.
@2ck Haven't seen it, but just from this context: Major ship manufacturer makes the safety system unrepairable as a cost reduction. System eventually fails safely, not letting people out of ships. People start manually overriding instead of getting a new ship. Since people already keep manually overriding, the next generation of ships doesn't even include the safety system. Nobody cares about lives, cause... prominent ancap party says it's natural selection or something.